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Classification Form 1b Rev. January 1955

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE BUREAU OF PRISONS

CLASSIFICATION STUDY (Continued)

Committed Name [REDACTED] Register Number [REDACTED] Page 3 b6 per BOP b7C per BOP

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he discontinued his schooling. From 1937 until 1945 he attended the St. Mary's School at Yonkers, New York, graduating from the eighth grade. From 1945 until 1948 he attended the Longfellow Junior High School in the same locality, going to the tenth grade, his schooling being discontinued when he went into the U.S. Army. While his mother points out and more or less emphasizes that he made an overall excellent adjustment during his formative years, it is believed that [REDACTED] got into numerous escapades during his youth and was somewhat of a juvenile delinquent in his home community. He is believed to have been more or less a constant delinquent since the age of twelve. However, he did not become involved in any serious difficulty until he was first picked up in May of 1949 on an auto theft charge.

On December 16, 1948 he entered the U.S. Army and was dishonorably discharged September 27, 1949. This was the result of a conviction for motor vehicle theft in Colorado for which he got into trouble in 1949. At that time he was committed to the state reformatory at Buena Vista, Colorado with an indeterminate sentence, served eleven months and was paroled. At the time [REDACTED] entered the Army he was 17 years of age and this was the first time that he had more or less permanently separated himself from the parental home. For receiving the civil conviction he received an Undesirable Discharge. b6 per BOP His mother points out that the beginning of his employment experience was his b7C per BOP attempt in a small way to help her by shining shoes and thus be in a position to contrib- ute to the household expenses. She states that whatever occupation he engaged in he did well and that his employers always had a good recommendation for him. Since leaving school and getting into trouble after joining the Army, [REDACTED] has spent the larger portion of his life in various penal institutions. He claims that he has not had any civilian work for the last ten years. He has worked at minor construction jobs and has worked as a salesman at times. Other than this, his work history can be considered insignificant.

After his release from the state reformatory in Buena Vista, Colorado in 1950, he returned to New York City and in November of 1950 was picked up on a robbery and burglary charge, and in April of 1951 served an indeterminate sentence at Riker's Island for petty larceny, this being stealing an automobile. At that time he is believed to have escaped from the institution. In January of 1952 he became involved in a robbery charge in West Virginia and received a 15-year sentence in the state penitentiary at Moundsville, West Virginia and was paroled from there November 1, 1955. At the time of his parole from the West Virginia institution he was taken into custody by New York authorities and returned on kidnaping, robbery, assault and escape charges. There is no information available as to how long he had to serve, but it is believed that he was paroled by that authority as he returned home and through the kindness of a certain county official he was given employment. His mother points out that he was doing very well at this county job, that he secured his own apartment, anticipated sharing it with her and his younger sister, and at this time her son was very happy and making new friends daily which gave him a feeling of security and contentment. He was reaching the point where he felt he had paid his debt to society, when elections came around and the official who had been so solicitous of his welfare was one of the candidates for office. The mother points out that the opponent made it known that her son was an ex-convict and the pressure became too great and he left town. Information available shows that he gravitated towards the west coast. At the time he left he absconded from parole supervision from New York State due to the Parole Officer's pressure and the

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