Allegheny County PA Archives History .....Complaint V. James Welsh For Commitment To Reform School August 8, 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 January 28, 2009, 7:42 am

Complaint brought before B. McKenna, Police Magistrate of the City of 
Pittsburgh, by Morgan J. Conley, police officer of Pittsburgh.  James Welsh, a 
minor, resides at 711 Carson Street, South Side Pittsburgh.  He arrested said 
minor for stealing a pocket book from a woman on the street.  Have seen him 
around the street at all hours.  He has a vagrant life.  I notified the parent 
and she said she did not care what was done with him, that she could not do 
anything with him.
   George H. Waggoner of 63 Greenbush St. 32nd Ward, Pittsburgh, deposes that 
Welsh has been arrested before.  He is on the streets at all hours and leads a 
vagrant kind of life, sleeping in hall ways and such places.  His parents were 
notified and paid no attention to notice.
     William McShane, who lives on 13th St. S.S., Sergeant of Police, deposes 
that Welsh has been arrested for stealing a pocket book from a woman on 
Smithfield St. His parents have been notified and paid no attention to notice.  

Additional Comments:
Notes made upon the boy's arrival at Pennsylvanis Reform School at Morganza:
     James Welsh, No. 5734, Division B.  Parents living.  Father, Pat Welsh, 
absconded about one year ago.  Mother, Mrs. Mary Welsh, a washerwoman living at 
39 West Carson St., Pittsburgh SS, Pa.  Sent here for helping to steal 
pocketbook from a lady in Smithfield St.
     Description: Height 4'5 1/2"; weight 70 pounds.  Dark hair, hazel eyes, 
dark complexion, pug nose.  Small scar above inner corner of left eye.  One 
vaccine mark on left arm.
     Aged 13 on Sept. 3, 1899; received Aug. 8, 1899.  Born Penna. of Irish 
parentage.  Catholic.  Father intemperate, mother not intemperate.  Parents do 
not own property.  1 older brother, 3 younger brothers, 1 younger sister.  Can 
read and write.  Swears, lies, steals, uses tobacco, has been arrested before.  
Is not intemperate.

     

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/

File size: 2.4 Kb