Bella: Com (Commonwealth, ie. the state of Pa). Charges were brought and a grand jury returned a true bill (enough information was provided to show that a conviction would probably ensue). Larry On 2/28/2014 5:42 PM, lapiu.bella1@verizon.net wrote: > > OK, folks, I need some help with this one. In a Sept 1886 issue of The > Indiana Progress > newspaper that I've been scouring in the Historic Newspaper Collection at > Ancestry.com, > I found the following item in a Court News column. > Tell me what your best guesses are for translating this. > "Com. vs. (male person#1), indict., seduction and F. And B., (female person > #2), prox. True Bill." > I think it says: Commonwealth vs male, indicted for seduction fornication > and bastardy, > female is prosecuting (bringing the charges against the male). I don't know > what True Bill means. > Now remember this is from 1886. Care to guess? This is not a test. I'm doing > some lookups > for a friend. I previously found an obit for the female, who died in 1938, > was born in 1870. I think there was > a son born of that seduction, making the female abt. 15-16 years old at the > time. > Bella > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Visit our Allegheny County, PA Website: http://www.pagenweb.org/~allegheny/index.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PAALLEGH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- My genealogy page http://twothompsongenealogies.com/ Allegheny County Maps page http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lt0168/maps/