A romance that began in May three years ago when young C.W. Jackson, formerly of La Grange, Ga., was manager of the Woolworth shoe here and attractive Sada Godfrey of Seversville, who was one of the sales girls in the store, was all but finished in Superior Court Monday morning when Jackson was placed on trial for abandonment and non-support of his handsome wife and bright-looking 2-year-old baby girl.
The rule at the Woolworth store was that a manager of the store was not to keep company with any of the sales ladies, this to insure conformity to safe business rules. In the face of this rule Jackson resigned his job as Woolworth manager in order to pay ardent court to Miss Godfrey, who was quite attractive and a striking representative of the Mary Garden type of beauty. With her 2-year-old baby she was the center of the stage in the court room Monday morning.
The defendant is represented in court by J. Cliff Newell and William Lawrence Marshall. J. Clyde Stancill is appearing with Acting Solicitor Francis Clarkson for the State.
It was brought out at the hearing that Jackson had been married once before but it was established that he had divorced the first wife.
Jackson testified on the stand that Mrs. Jackson, before he went away, after they came back from living with his mother in Georgia and had been here a while with her parents, had told him if he would go away and get employment she would consider going to live with him. Prior to that her brother had advised Jackson to leave the Godfrey home, it was testified, and he did so.
From the front page of The Charlotte News, July 17, 1922
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