The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-04-18
COPPEDGE HELD;
SERIOUS CHARGE
HOTEL HOUSEKEEPER AND FOR
MER TEN-CENT STORE MANA
GER IN JAIL WITH HEAVY
BONDS ASSESSED.

L. ID. COppeQge, former manager OF
the National Five and Ten Cents store
here, was arrested Monday morning
charging assault an 16-year-old
young lady of this city in his private
room in local hotel. He was lodged
in the Crisp county Jail under $4,000
bond assessed by Judge w. H. Malone
of the Justice court, before whom the
warrant was sworn out.
Mrs. C. L. Green, housekeeper
at the hotel where the crime was com
mitted, was taken in custody Monday
afternoon by Sheriff Ward on a war
rant charging her as being accessory
to the crime. The charge against her
was named as felony in the warrant.
The warrant against Mrs. Green was
sworn out before Judge J. P. Hughes
of the justice court. By consent Of
the court and the counsel for both
sides, she was placed under guard at
the hotel until Tuesday afternoon at
8 o'clock, the time set for a prelimi
nary hearing in Justice court.
The girl in her affidavit upon pro-
curing the warrant against Coppedge
alleges that he enticed her under false
pretenses to his room in the hotel,
locked the door and attempted to force
\ ;c off ho
feated his purpose only by physical
strength.
Both Coppedge and Mrs. Green
waived commitment trial in justice
court before Judge w. H Malone and
j. P. Hughes, Tuesday afternoon, de-
handing Indictment by the grand jul
,ry. The matter of making bond was
argued at lapgth-by counsel for both
sides befof the court. Coppedge's
bond was assessed at $500, and Mrs.
GREEN'S bond was assessed at $4,000.
Both defendants were placed in jail.
Counsel for Coppedge stated their
intention today of going before Judge
D. A. R. Crum of the superior court,
who is presiding over Irwin county
court at ocilla, making application for
a reduction of Coppedge's bond.
Coppedge recently returned to Cor
dele and was conducting a special sale
of hats at the store room formerly &C.
cupied by the National company, and
the girl who has preferred charges
against him was employed by him as
clerk at the time of the alleged
crime, it is understood.
Lovett Dowell, a negro bell boy at
the hotel, was taken in charge by the
police Monday and held in the city
barracks until Tuesday afternoon on
the grounds that he is a material wit
ness for the prosecution. Counsel for
the prosecution asked the justice court
to assess a bond for Dowen in order
that he could be held to the grand jul
nv. Judge Hughes and Malone ruled
that since no commitment trial had
been held and no evidence offered in
either of the defendants cases,
that they had no authority to assess
a bond. Dowell was returned to the
city barracks in an effort of the pros
ecution's counsel to get Judge Crum
of the superior court to assess bond,
but the negro was shortly released
from the barracks by Chief of Police
Sheppard on the grounds that he had
no authority to hold him.
Hal Lambdin and Attorney Dogger,
Of Fitzgerald, and ]. T. Jeter, Of Cor
dele, are counsel for Coppedge. Mrs.
Green is represented by Hamp We
sWhorter, of Athens, and w. H. Doris
of Cordele E. F. Stroller, o. T. Cow
er and L. L. Davis are counsel for the.
prosecution. Both the defendants are
of prominent families and have the
best of family connections in different
sections of the state.