A regular feature looking back at what was being printed around 100 years ago in the Bristol Daily Courier. This week’s entry comes from the September 27, 1921 edition of the newspaper.
Parents Glad When Jennie Was Jailed
The parents of 16-year-old Jennie Lasprella nodded their heads in approval when Justice Kraft this morning committed the girl to St. Vincent’s Home in Philadelphia.
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Father and mother testified that their daughter had been a source of constant worriment to them and that they were glad she had been arrested, so that they would at least know where she was.
The girl, a slender brunette, bore the traces of prettiness, despite her unkept appearance after a night in a cell at the Bristol police headquarters.
She hung her head in shame as her parents and the police recited her alleged incorrigibility.
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Her mother, Mrs. Bessie Lasprella, said that she could do nothing with the girl and that she was continually absent from their home at 1018 Trenton Avenue, staying away for nights in succession and refusing to tell where she had been.
Her father, Leonard Lasprella, a hard working laboring man, admitted that the girl was beyond his control.
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The police testified that the girl made a habit of sleeping in lots, outhouses, and whatever she could make herself a bed. She also consorted with boys, some of whom abetted her truancy.
She was picked up last night by Chief of Police Sackville.
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