Allegheny County PA Archives History .....Commitment Of Joseph Heilman To Reform School November 9, 1899
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Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County, September Session, 1899.  Joseph 
Heilman pleaded guilty of entering railroad car with intent to commit a felony, 
on Sept. 10, 1899.  Court sentenced him to pay a fine of 6 1/4 cents, pay the 
costs of prosecution and to be committed to the Pennsylvania Reform School 
until age 21.  


   
     

Additional Comments:
Notes made at time of the boy's arrival at Pennsylvania Reform School, Morganza:
   Joseph Heilman, #5790, Division C.  Parents living at 272 Lowry St., Troy 
Hill, Allegheny, Pa.  Father Nicholas Heilman, a laborer.
   Sent here for breaking into a freight car on P. & W. R.R.  
   Description: Height 4' 10 1/2"; weight 87 pounds.  Light brown hair, dark 
gray eyes, dark complexion, irregular front teeth, peculiar shaped mouth.  Scar 
from cut in right eyebrow, two scars on left side of head.  No vaccine.
   Age: 14 on May 15, 1899; received Nov. 10, 1899.  Born in Penna. of German 
parentage; Catholic.  Father intemperate, mother not intemperate.  Parents do 
not own property.  1 older brother, 1 younger brother, 1 younger sister.  
Illiterate.  Swears, lies, steals, uses tobacco.  Is not intemperate.  Has been 
arrested before.
   
   
   

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