Allegheny County PA Archives History - Letters .....Petition To Release William Hopple From Reform School August 7, 1895
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Petition of George Hopple of McKeesport, Allegheny County, representing that 
his son, William Hopple, a minor of the age of 14 years, was on July 5, 1895 
arrested by an officer of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company for 
trespassing on the railroad trains of said Company; that said minor child was 
taken by said officer before a magistrate in the city of Pittsburgh, and was by 
either said magistrate or the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County 
committed to the Pennsylvania Reform School, situate at Morganza; that your 
petitioner had no notice of the committing of said minor child to said Reform 
School, until said minor was so confined in said institution; that said minor 
child has never been incorrigible, and has been an industrious, dutiful child, 
and has always remained at home with your petitioner, his wife & other 
children, and has materially assisted in the support of said family.  Your 
petitioner further represents that he has a good, comfortable home for said 
minor child, and believes that he is unjustly deprived of his liberty in said 
Reform School.  He, therefore, prays that yur Honors may recommend the release 
and discharge of said minor child from said institution.

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