Allegheny County PA Archives History - Letters .....Complaint V. Samuel Rice For Commitment To Reform School March 24, 1899 ************************************************ 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 December 19, 2008, 10:29 am Complaint made before R. McKenna, Police Magistrate of Pittsburgh, by Rosa Rice, mother of Samuel Rice, a minor born in March 1884. She resides at 32 Gibbon Street and is the surviving parent of Samuel Rice. He will not stay at home and refuses to obey her. Will stay away from home for weeks at a time & goes in company of bad boys. George Waggoner, Inspector of Police for 1st District Pittsburgh, deposes that Samuel is a very bad boy, keeps company with bad boys at all hours of the night and day. He has been arrested for stealing & some stolen goods found on him. Thomas Stereck, Sergeant of Police at Central Station, deposes that Samuel has been arrested for stealing before this time. When brought to station this time he had stolen things on him. Additional Comments: Notes made upon the boy's arrival at the Pennsylvania Reform School at Morganza: Samuel Rice, No. 5667, Division D. Father dead. Mother, Mrs. Rosa Rice, lives at 32 Gibbon St., Pittsburg, Pa. Sent here for stealing shirts from in front of a store on Smithfield St., staying out at night, etc. Description: height 5' 1/2"; weight 113 pounds. Black hair, dark brown eyes, dark complexion, dark eyebrows. S.R. in India Ink on right forearm. 2 vaccine marks on left arm. Age: 15 on March __, 1899; received Mar. 24, 1899. Born in Russia of Jewish parentage. Parents not intemperate. 1 older brother, 2 younger brothers, 1 older sister, 1 younger sister. Can read and write. Swears, lies, steals, has been arrested before. Does not use tobacco, is not intemperate. (Additional document in docket: from Jere. Carney, Attorney at Law, Pittsburgh to J.A. Quay, Supt. of Reform School, dated July 12, 1899: Enclosed you will find writ of Habeas Corpus directed to you to produce the body of Sam Rice in the Court of Common Pleas No. 2 on Saturday July 15th 1899 at 9:30 A.M. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb