1910 version of law for females under 16 to be sent to state training school
I intended to show 4 slides listing 32 boys’ entry details but to save time I will show just one slide of boys’ entries
Above, from a
legal notice in an Adirondack newspaper, is some text from the 1910 version
of a law allowing courts to send females under 16 to a state training school
for girls if found, among other described behavior patterns,“willfully disobedient to parent or
guardian,” “in danger of becoming morally depraved” or “is a vagrant.” The
latter could be read as being a “runaway.”
I had
intended to devote the next four slides to listing 32 of the 39 boys jailed.
Due to time constrains I will show only one slide. The compressed version
lists data for 10 of the 39 boys.
