A letter from Los Angeles police chief J. M. Glass to San Diego police chief Joseph Coyne
Entry/Object ID
2012.472.1.8
Description
A letter from Los Angeles police chief J. M. Glass to San Diego police chief Joseph Coyne, 3 February 1891. The short handwritten note on Glass's letterhead concerns the arrest for begging of a ten to twelve year old boy from San Diego named John James Savage and requests that Coyne arrange for the child's parents to retrieve him, the boy being "very homesick, tired and hungry. He says he wants to go home to his mother, Jane Savage." With extensive stains, soiling, adhesive residue, folds and trimmed corners, the condition is fair/
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California. Department of Public Health. Bureau of Child Hygiene, United States. Department of Labor. Children's Bureau.
