Westmoreland County PA Archives History .....Complaint Vs.  Blaine Mattox To Commit To Reform School June 28, 1899
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Complaint made before H.A. Abbey, Justice of the peace of Westmoreland County, 
by John R. Mattox of the Boro of West Newton, father of Blaine Mattox, a minor 
now aged 12.  Disobedient, uncontrollable.  Will go away from home for 2 or 3 
days at a time, jumps freights, and is always in trouble.  
     W.C. Luppold deposed the same.  A train jumper.  I have been looking for 
him to be crippled by  jumping freights.
     H.A. McLain deposed the same.  

     

Additional Comments:
Notes made upon the boy's arrival at the Pennsylvania Reform School, Morganza:
   Blaine Mattox, No. 5709, Division B.  Parents living at West Newton, 
Westmoreland Co., Pa.  Father John R. Mattox drives a beer wagon.  Sent here 
for stealing a keg of beer from a freight car.
     Description: Height 4' 6 1/2"; weight 62 pounds.  Brown hair and eyes, 
dark complexion, scar from cut on forehead near edge of hair, pug nose.  Out-
turned lower lip.  One vaccine mark on left arm.
     Age: 12 on Sept. 11, 1899; received June 29, 1899.  Born Penna., American 
parentage.  Attends what church: Bethel.  Father intemperate, moher not 
intemperate.  Parents own property.  4 older brothers, 1 younger brother; no 
sisters.  Illiterate.  Swears, lies, steals, uses tobacco.  Is not 
intemperate.  Has been arrested before.
  
  
  
   

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