Allegheny County PA Archives History .....Complaint Vs. John Hornyack Jr.  For Commitment To Reform School January 28, 1899
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Complaint brought before Thomas J. Blain, Alderman of McKeesport, by John 
Honryak, father of John Honryak Jr., born June 15, 1885.  On March 15, 1898 
John Honryak Jr. was released from your school and since that time has been 
beyond control.  On Jan. 26, 1899 he was caught in the act of robbing a store 
room in this city.  
   Joseph Peck of McKeesport deposes that John Honryak Jr. is uncontrollable.  
He has been implicated in a number of robberies committed in this vicinity, the 
latest on Jan. 26, 1899.
   Joseph A. Stone, Chief of Police of McKeesport, deposed the same.

Additional Comments:
Notes made upon the boy's arrival at Pennsylvania Reform School at Morganza:
   Jno. Hornyack Jr., No. 5653, Vivision C.  Parents living at McKeesport, Pa., 
105 Strawberry Alley.  Father, Jno. Hornyack, a laborer.  
   Sent here for robbing several stores at McKeesport.
   Description: height, 4'8"; weight, 83 pounds.  Brown hair, hazel eyes, dark 
complexion, pug nose.  2 vaccine marks on left arm.
   Age 14 on Apr. 22, 1899; received Jan. 30, 1899.  Born in Austria of 
Austrian parentage.  Presbyterian.  Father intemperate.  3 younger brothers.  
Can read & write.  Swears, lies, steals, uses tobacco.  Is not intemperate.  
Has been arrested before.
   

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