Indiana County PA Archives History .....Complaint Vs. Malcolm Hershell Duncan For Commitment To Reform School March 25, 1899
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Complaint made before M.B. Klein, Justice of the Peace of Indiana County, by 
Edward G. Duncan of the Borough of Indiana, father of Malcolm Hershell Duncan, 
a minor.  Uncontrollable, will not tell the truth, incorrigible and vicious 
about his house.  He will hide from me whenever he gets out of my sight.  He is 
very profane.  His conduct is such that he will ruin his little sister if not 
put under control.  His mother has been dead over three years.  Malcolm was 
born June 11, 1888.
     Anna M. Duncan deposes that Malcolm is her nephew.  Incorrigible and 
vicious.  He will fight his grandmother and use profane language.  He will 
strike and kick and scratch her if she attempts to correct him.  He keeps very 
bad company, he will mix with colored people of bad repute.  His conduct about 
the house is unbearable.  He will curse everything and everybody about the 
house, his little sister three years old as well as the rest.  He keeps his 
clothes in such bad condition that he is not fit to be seen.
     W.S. Trainer deposes: Hershell Duncan has been under my control for the 
past three years as Principal of the Indiana Borough Public School.  Vicious, 
incorrigible and untruthful.  Corporal punishment does him no good.  
     

Additional Comments:
Notes made upon the boy's arrival at the Pennsylvania Reform School at 
Morganza: 
    Malcolm H. Duncan, No. 5669, Division B.  Mother dead.  Father, Edward G. 
Duncan, a laborer living at Indiana, Indiana Co.  Sent here for disobedience, 
stealing and bad conduct about home.
     Age: 10 on June 11, 1899.  Received: Mar. 27, 1899.  Born Penna., 
parentage American.   Presbyterian.  Father not intemperate, does not own 
property.  1 younger sister.  Can read & write.  Swears, lies, steals, uses 
tobacco.  Is not intemperate.  Has not been arrested before.

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