*THE ARCHITECT OF CALIFORNIA* 1914 MAURY DIGGS MUG SHOT ARREST FBI WANTED POSTER

Description: UP FOR AUCTION IS THE ORIGINAL 1914 MUGSHOT ARREST RECORD OF THE MAN KNOWN AS "THE ARCHITECT OF CALIFORNIA" MAURY DIGGS. THIS BERTILLON MUGSHOT OF MAURY DIGGS IS THE ONLY PHYSICAL MUGSHOT/ARREST RECORD IN EXISTENCE FOR MAURY DIGGS. PLEASE NOTE, IN SEVERAL NATIONAL ARCHIVES THEIR RESIDES ORIGINAL COURT PHOTOGRAPHS AND LEGAL DOCUMENTS CONCERNING MR. DIGGS. HOWEVER THIS IS THE ONE AND ONLY ARREST MUGSHOT FOR HIS ARREST AND LATER CONVICTION FOR THE RAPE/VIOLATION OF THE MANN ACT IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY. THIS MADE NATIONAL HEADLINES AND CHANGED THE U.S JUDICIAL SYSTEM AS WE KNOW IT. The indictment against Diggs contained six counts. He was convicted on the first four counts, and there was no verdict on the last two. The first count charged him with transporting Marsha Warrington from Sacramento, Cal., to Reno, Nev., for the purpose of debauchery, and for an immoral purpose, to wit, that the aforesaid Marsha Warrington should be and become his concubine and mistress. The second count charged him with transporting Lola Norris from Sacramento to Reno, that she might become the mistress and concubine of Caminetti. The third count charged him with procuring a ticket for Marsha Warrington from Sacramento to Reno, with the intent that she should become his concubine and mistress. The fourth count charged him with buying a ticket for Lola Norris, with the intent that she should give herself up to debauchery, and for an immoral purpose, to wit, that she could be and become the concubine and mistress of Caminetti. The fifth and sixth counts charged him with persuading, inducing, and enticing Marsha Warrington and Lola Norris to go to Reno for the immoral purposes set forth in the other counts.Diggs v. United States, 220 F. 545, 547-48 (9th Cir. 1915)Early LifeDiggs was born in 1886 in Woodland, California, to rancher Irvin P. Diggs and Nora Lasley (Diggs). He had an older brother, Roy Diggs, and a younger brother, Ashby Diggs.California Democratic senator Marshall Diggs was his uncle.Maury surprised people in 1906 when he went for a drive from Woodland to Sacramento with Eddie Praet, Grace Craig, and Lina Kincheloe. Upon arrival, Maury found the county clerk and got a marriage license, and he and Lina Kicheloe (Diggs) were married. The other couple joined them for dinner, then drove home, while the newlyweds stayed in Sacramento. His parents moved to Berkeley in 1907. (Some sources say Irvin Diggs was a contractor, but the 1910 and 1920 censuses list him as a farmer, living with Nora and Ashby at 2444 Bowditch Street. His obituary mentions ranching and breeding thoroughbred horses. Only the 1918 directory lists him as a builder.)Architectural CareerDiggs completed high school, but did not attend college. At the time of his marriage in 1906, he was studying architecture with Rudolph A. Herold in Sacramento. 8 From c.1907 until 1909, Diggs was a draftsman for Irving J. Gill in San Diego. (Gill apparently thought highly of him, and invited him to return to San Diego later.)The first State Architect, George C. Sellon, was forced to resign in May 1909. William D. Coates, Jr. was appointed State Architect; Diggs was appointed as an architectural designer.Diggs apparently tendered his resignation effective May 1, 1911, but other events seem to have overtaken that. In May 1911, Coates resigned under murky circumstances. In September 1911, Diggs resigned as architectural designer, but remained as State Architect. After his resignation as acting State Architect in 1912, it was announced the position was being abolished.During his time with the State Architect's office, Diggs assisted in designing San Quentin Prison along with other buildings. 4Also beginning in 1909, Maury Diggs and Clarence C. Cuff were architectural partners in the firm Cuff & Diggs in Sacramento. They designed a number of apartment buildings and hotels in Sacramento, including the Travelers Hotel. They also designed the courthouse in Placerville, CA, completed in 1912. One of the first projects by them was a Christian Science Church on 23rd Street near K Street, designed in 1909.Due to a 1913 nationally-followed scandal which was brought about by his arrest and subsequent trial for violating the Mann Act, as described further below, Diggs' career (and life) changed dramatically. Cuff severed his business relations with Diggs, and Diggs relocated to Oakland.While in Oakland, Diggs continued his architectural career, designing race tracks such as Golden Gate Fields and Bay Meadows, as well as the Latham Square Building and the Bechtel Building.Weeks and Day designed the Fox Oakland Theatre. Diggs designed the adjacent office and commercial spaces, and oversaw construction of the building. Some believe Diggs designed the entire theater, but due to his soiled reputation, was only credited with having designed the retail wings. 3,4,5 However, the evidence does not support this.An unusual project Diggs was associated with was the Tomasini Bridge, a plan in 1933 to build a combination bridge and tunnel across the Bay from Albany to Tiburon.Maury Diggs and the Mann Act Scandal In 1913, when Maury Diggs was still married to Lina, he and his best friend F. Drew Caminetti, 27 years old and also married, became romantically and sexually involved with two young women, Marsha Warrington and her close friend, Lola Norris, in the spring of 1913.After much crazy behavior, mainly on the part of Maury Diggs' father, who tried to end the affairs by hunting down his son and the other three with a policeman, the young people tried to escape the ensuing scandal by fleeing Sacramento on a train to Reno, Nevada (they had missed the train to Los Angeles.)They were arrested in Reno and charged under the Federal Mann Act, also known as the White-Slave Traffic Act, which prohibited white slavery, defined as the interstate transport of females for immoral purposes.The two separate trials of Diggs and Caminetti were held in San Francisco Federal Court. Diggs' trial was first, which began on August 5, 1913, with a huge media circus of reporters and photographers chasing the trial defendants and witnesses.During the summation, the federal prosecutor told the all male jury "the people of all these United States; 60,000,000 or 90,000,000 people are awaiting your verdict ... an acquittal in this case would be a miscarriage of justice."Maury Diggs was convicted on four counts, and the judge sentenced him on September 17, 1913 to two years in prison and a $2,000 fine. Caminetti in his trial was also found guilty of transporting for immoral purposes, and was sentenced to 18 months and fined $1,500.The cases of both men were appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court (Caminetti v. United States), which initially denied the petition on June 14, 1915, but a week later reconsidered. The majority of the court "branded the weekend seducers and adulterers who traveled in interstate commerce as felons, regardless of the lack of coercion or compensation." 1 The court upheld the convictions in January 1917.Diggs eventually began his sentence at the McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary in Pierce, Washington on April 4, 1917. He was released on parole on December 20, 1917, after serving a third of his sentence. 6In 1943 Diggs and Caminetti were both granted a presidential pardon, which restored their civil rights (but not their previous reputations).Life After ConvictionIn January 1914, Diggs was accused of assault on a 17-year-old, Ida Pearring. There were indications that Pearring was trying to blackmail Diggs for $4,500, and Diggs was acquitted. Diggs and his first wife divorced in 1914. On December 15, 1915, Maury I. Diggs and Marsha Warrington (Diggs) married in Oakland; they had one daughter together. Maury and Marsha lived in a unit in the Bechtel Building at 244 Lakeside Drive, a building which he had designed, but Diggs lost the apartment in a card game. He and Marsha were forced to move into a smaller apartment at 2122 Lakeshore Avenue.Around WWII, Diggs was granted several patents related to building construction. One was assigned to Higgins Industries of New Orleans, and another to the Ferro Enameling Company of Oakland. PLEASE MAKE US YOUR BEST OFFER, WE WILL ACCEPT ANY REASONABLE OFFER THANK YOU VERY MUCH

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