Westmoreland County PA Archives History - Letters .....Complaint Against Arvid Anderson To Commit To Reform School December 23, 1896
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Complaint made before Jacob Hoffer, Justice of the Peace of Westmoreland 
County, by Andrew Anderson, father of Algert Anderson.  Andrew Anderson of 
Borough of S.E. Greensburgh deposes that Algert will not go to school, plays 
truant. He goes away from home frequently and does not come home for a week at 
a time, some nights he comes home at 11 and 12 o'clock at night and sometimes 
later.  He rebels and refuses to do anything that I ask him to do.  I do not 
know where he is and have not been able to find him since Saturday the 19 day 
of December 1896.
     Clara Anderson, the mother of sd Algert, says that he will not go to 
school.  When I tell him to go to school, he will run away and not go to school 
and will tell me he was at school when he was not at school.  When I want him 
to do some work for me he runs away.  He comes home late at night.  He has been 
away for 4 or 5 days and I do not know where he is.
     S.G. Scheible, a director in the East Greensburg School, deposes that this 
is the second winter that I have known that he does not go to school and know 
that he plays truant.  I see him in bad company loafing around town.

Additional Comments:
Notes made by the Pennsylvania Reform School upon the boy's arrival (Jan. 21, 
1897): Alget Anderson, No. 5282, Division F.  Parents live at Greensburg, 
Westmoreland Co.  Father Andrew Anderson a coal miner.  Sent here for running 
away from home & not going to school. 
     Description: Height 5' 5 1/2", weight 115 pounds.  Dark brown hair, blue 
eyes, medium complexion, left arm off above elbow; dark colored scar from shot 
wound near right groin.  Age: 14 on Apr. 3, 1896.  Received Jan. 21, 1897.  
Born: Sweden; parents Swedish.  Lutheran.  Father and mother intemperate.  
Parents own property.  2 older brothers, 1 younger sister.  Can read & write.  
Swears, lies, uses tobacco; does not steal.  Is not intemperate.  Has been 
arrested before.                                 
     Note dated Greensburg, Pa., Feb. 2, 1897: Received from G.M. Permar, 
Parole Officer of Pennsylvania Reform School, the body of Alget Anderson 
committed by me to that institution.  (signed) Jacob Hoffer, J.P.

 
     
     

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