Fined $100 for “Feeding”
Girl. . . Taking Girl to Hotel Cost Coast Guard Keeper a Tidy Sum
Capt. A.W. Styron, Keeper of Coast Guard Station No. 180 at
Gull Shoal near Salvo, N.C., was fined $100, and Mattie Copeland, a young white
girl of this city, was sent to Samarcand Manor by the Recorder’s Court of this
city yesterday morning.
Capt. Styron carried the girl to the Southern Hotel in this
city Tuesday night. He registered as A.W. Styron of Beaufort, N.C., and
registered the girl as a Miss Berry of Massachusetts. They took separate rooms,
but the police found them in the same room the following morning. Capt. Styron
submitted in the case, arranged for the payment of whatever fine would be
imposed, and left town. The girl alone appeared in police court yesterday
morning. The girl is a daughter of Jack Copeland, who lives on Beech Street,
and has given her father and the police a lot of trouble. It was brought out in
the Recorder’s Court that she has occupied rooms at numerous hotels and
boarding houses form time to time, in every case her room being paid for by
men. One night she stayed out with a Crank all night. Miss Hettie Creecy’s
rooming house at the corner of Church and Road Streets was one of the places
mentioned in the evidence.
In regard to her affair with Capt. Styron the girl testified
that she met Capt. Styron coming in on the train Wednesday night. She told him
she was hungry and he begged her to go to the Southern Hotel with him and get
breakfast. She said she didn’t consider that any harm. Asked why she didn’t go
home and get breakfast she said Capt. Styron wouldn’t let her.
The Copeland girl's if the fourth to be sent from Elizabeth
City to Samarcand Manor, the state home for wayward girls, within recent
months.
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