Allegheny County PA Archives History - Letters .....Complaint Against Michael Considine To Commit To Reform School August 22, 1898
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Complaint made before B.M. Kenn, Police Magistrate of City of Pittsburgh by 
John Considine, father of Michael Considine.  
     John Considine deposes that he is the father of Michael Considine and 
resides now at the Little (illegible word)) of the Poor in Allegheny City.  
That the boy's mother is dead & he was left with his aunt, Mrs. Susan Sweeny, & 
that he now refuses to live with her after he had lived 12 years with her; 
refuses to obey her or me.  
     Susan Sweeny states that she resides at the corner of Stevenson & Vickroy 
Street, Pittsburgh, and has had charge of said infant since he was 2 years old 
and is willing yet to care for him but he will not obey me.  Goes away from 
home & stays away with bad company, refuses to go to school & is continually in 
company of bad boys.  
     John A. Considine says that he is a brother of said infant & has tried to 
get the boy to do better but he will insist on staying out at night and going 
in bad company.  Will not obey anyone.  

Additional Comments:
Notes made at Pennsylvania Reform School upon the boy's arrival: Michael 
Considine, #5572, Division D.  Mother dead.  Father John Considine lives at 
Little Sisters of the Poor, Washington St., Pittsburgh, Pa.  Boy has been 
living with an aunt, Mrs. Susan Sweeney, at corner of Stevenson & Vickroy Sts.  
Sent him for disobedience and running away from his aunt's.  
     Description: Height, 5 ft.  Weight: 103 pounds.  Light brown hair, blue 
eyes, medium complexion, small scar to right of right eye.  Four vaccine marks 
on left arm.
     Aged 13 on Dec. 4, 1898.  Received Aug. 22, 1898.  Born Pa.; parentage, 
Irish.  Attends Catholic Church.  Father not intemperate, mother not 
intemperate.  1 older brother, 1 younger brother; 2 older sisters.  Can read & 
write.  Swears, lies, steals, uses tobacco.  Not intemperate; has not been 
arrested before.
     
     

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