Allegheny County PA Archives History - Letters .....Complaint Against Theodore Albert Luty To Commit To Reform School June 6, 1898 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Barbara W. Brown buwbrown@comcast.net July 22, 2008, 12:19 pm Complaint made before Police Magistrate of City of Pittsburgh by Christ and Annie Emelia Luty, parents of Theodore Albert Luty of Allegheny City; request that he be placed in Pennsylvania Reform School. Christ & Annie Emelia Luty of 45 Virgin Ave., Allegheny. Theodore under age of 11 years; will not obey the deponents, will not go to school, runs away from home, associates with vile & vicious companions. Born Jan. 31 1888. H.M. McKee (77 Lorrain St., Allegheny) and G.W. Gerwig (75 Cedar Ave.) testified to the truth of the preceding. Additional Comments: Notes made at Pennsylvania Reform School upon the boy's arrival: Theodore Albert Luty. Parents living at 45 Virgin Ave., Allegheny, Pa. Father Chris Luty a fruit street peddler. Sent here for not going to school & running away from home. Description: Height 4' 2 1/4"; weight 59 pounds. Dark brown hair and eyes, medium complexion, freckled, small scar from cut on back of right hand; scar from cut in right eyebrow. Age 10 on Jan. 31, 1898. Received June 7, 1898. Born: Penna.; parentage American. Protestant. Neither father nor mother intemperate. 1 older brother, 4 younger sisters. Illiterate. Swears (seems to be erased). Does not lie, steal, use tobacco. Is not intemperate. Has never been arrested before. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb