Allegheny County PA Archives History - Letters .....Catherine Vetterl & Catherine Hess Not Admitted To Reform School December 31, 1862
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Report of Executive Committee of the House of Refuge of Western Pennsylvania.  
Cases of Catherine Vetterl & Catherine Hess committed two sweeks ago by Squire 
Victor Scriba and held over for defective commitments there being only one 
witness in each case.
     The father & mother of Catherine Vetterl appeared & applied for her 
discharge, saying that they had committed her to the House on account of the 
reports of people, but that on investigation they find that the stories told 
them about her were not true.  The Squire believes her to be a good girl...and 
will not add another witness to the commitment.  The father is a carpenter and 
owns the house he lives in in Reserve Township.  Your Com. advised her 
discharge on account of defective commitment and the impossibility of having it 
corrected.  
     In regard to the case of Catherine Hess...Squire Scriba says her father 
left for Harrisburg the day after he committed his daughter and that he cannot 
add another witness to the commitment on this account.  Catherine is unwilling 
to go to her father on account of his bad treatment.  She would like to go to 
Mrs. Jane McGrew, mother of Mr. George McGrew, (illegible word) Mechanics Bank, 
if she will take her.  She is in delicate health - appears as if she was going 
into consumption.
     

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