Offered is a thin paper “Escaped Juvenile Wanted” card offering a $10.00 reward for capture of William Finley. Finley escaped the Whittier State School in April 1904. The card has a photo and full description of the boy. The Fred C. Nelles Youth Correctional Facility was in essence a prison for youth located on Whittier Boulevard, in Whittier, California. Operated by the California Youth Authority, now part of California Department of Corrections it once quartered young people incarcerated for law-breaking until it was closed by the state of CA in June 2004. Originally it was called the Whittier State School, when it opened in July 1891 as a reform school for boys and girls. The March 11, 1889 Act of the California Legislature authorized the establishment of a school for juvenile offenders. The state school was considered to have some of the best job training and music courses in the state for the first part of the twentieth century. In 1913, the girls were transferred to the newly established Ventura School for Girls and Whittier State Reformatory became a "Boys' School." The card is 3 ¼” x 5 ¾” on pinkish toned paper. It is single sided. Mild creasing and a pencil check mark above the image. This does have some paper residue on the back.