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5 when entering Training School. Bright face, with dark eyes and 
hair, and sharp features. Wild, passionate, profane, undisciplined 
generally, and fighting continually. Enunciation slightly defective. 
Placed in kindergarten, made but slight improvement in behavior, 
but advanced rapidly in hand work. 

As time went on, learned to care for himself and to read and 
write, but, growing daily more vulgar, profane, dishonest and un- 
ruly, would attack even his teacher. A persistent run-away, he 
seized every opportunity to escape. Developed the habit of spitting 
upon and biting little children, and kicking them in the face and 
stomach. His teacher makes note of him in his thirteenth year : 
" I wish I could say something good of M. but I cannot, for he is 
wicked in every way and gives constant trouble." Could be very 
engaging, but it was usually when he was plotting mischief. 

In his seventeenth year he escaped to carry trouble elsewhere, 
for wherever he is, there evil will follow. I have heard of him once 
since. Arrested under an assumed name for some offence, 
he referred to me for a character. 

Of his mother, apparently a respectable woman, it was discovered later,