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Sid Coffee to Serve 4 Months for Violation of Mann White Slave Act, May 20, 1924

Coffey Gets Jail Sentence. . . For Violating the Mann White Slave Act

Asheville, N.C., May 19—Sid Coffey was sentenced to serve four months in jail; judgement was suspended in the case of Pink Bright, and Lewis Webb and Ed Engle were found not guilty of violating the Mann white slave act in federal court here today.

The four youths, residents of Forest City, N.C., were charged with having taken Mrs. Gertrude Jenkins, 19, from her home in Spartanburg, S.C., into North Carolina for immoral purposes. she was with the men several days, part of the time being spent in a school house near Forest City. The defense was based on the contention that the young woman went on the trip willingly.

From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, May 20, 1924

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