fe was a former Nashville waiter.
RICHMOND TIMES=-DISPATCH, Richmond, Vae, ll=-11-1927
te was a former Nashville waiter.
RICHMOND TIMES=DISPATCH, Richmond, Vac, 11-11-1927
was a former Nashville waiter.
RIGIMOND TIMES-DISPATCH, Richmond, Vas, 11-11-1927
COGGINS, Herman
29-year-old white man, electrocuted Tennessee State Pri-
son (Davidson County) on Nov, 10, 1927, Was a World War
I veteran, having served in the 30th Division, 115th
Machine Gun Battallion in France. Was the son of a Lt,
in the Nashville fire department. Convicted of having
raped the 10-year-old daughter of a neighbor who had
bought his child in out of the cold in North Nashville,
Paper says crime occurred on Jane 27, 1927, but I find
no ref erence in Nashville TENNESSEAN for Jan, 27 or
Jan, 28 (the roll runs from 12-5-1926 to 12-28-1927.)
The paper also states that he was the first white man con-
viected in Davidson County to be executed, though I doubt
this. Possibly the first convicted of rape,
NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN, Nove LO, 1927
COCGINS, Herman
29-year-old white man, electrocuted Tennessee State Pri-
son (Davidson County) on Nov, 10, 1927, Was a World War
I veteran, having served in the 30th Division, 115th
Machine Gun Battallion in France, Was the son of a Lt.
in the Nashville fire department. Convicted of having
raped the 10-year-old daughter of a neighbor who had
bought his child in out of the cold in North Nashville,
Paper says crime occurred on Jane 27, 1927, but I find
no ref erence in Nashville TENNESSEAN for Jan, 27 or
Jan, 28 (the roll runs from 12-5-1926 to 12-28-1927.)
The paper also states that he was the first white man con-
victed in Davidson County to be executed, though I doubt
this. Possibly the first convicted of rape.
NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN, Nov. 10, 1927
COGGINS, Herman
2Q9ayear-old white man, electrocuted Tennessee State Pri-
son (Davidson County) on Nov, % 1927, Was a World War
I veteran, having served in the 30th Division, 115th
Machine Gun Battallion in France, Was the son of a It.
in the Nashville fire department, Convicted of having
raped the 10-year-old daughter of a neighbor who had
bought his child in out of the cold in North Nashville,
Paper says crime occurred on Jan, 27, 1927, but I ae
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The paper also states that he was the first white man con-|
victed in Davidson County to be executed, Ges I doubt
tise Possibly the first eae of rap
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