Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-30
NEGLECT OF BOY
Tue Cause of Parents Appear.
 ance iD Court To Day.

Martino Corangelo and his second
 wife. Angelina, were to-day charged
 under section 69 of the public acts
 of 1907 with neglecting William
 Corangelo. aged 12, and thereby
 causing and encouraging him to lead
 the life of a vagrant The Coran-
 gelos live at 216 Bishop street and
 the boy is one of ten children, nine
 by the first marriage and one by tho
 present one. A few months ago
 Corangelo left town for two months. and to all appearances his wife knew
 not whence he had gone. One night she was found on the street with an other woman and when accosted by police officer she said in her bes. English that she was starving, her husband having left her and his ten children, and she wanted help from the city and she would not live an- other day unless she was assisted in some manner. And so her story ran. It transpired later that the woman knew her husband had fled to Indi- ana, hoping that in the course of time her state of affairs would be- come public property and perhaps the nine step-children would be sent to the county home or some such in- stitution. A letter from the hus- band to his wife telling her he was doing fairly well in Indiana was found in the house by one of the seven boys of the family.
 The woman's condition was brought to the attention of the board of charities and she was given some help.
 Meanwhile the boy above men toned was seen loafing around North square and his presence there became so common that at last the police, Myers and Brickel, became interested in him, as did Michael Pentino, who runs fruit store on the square. The police learned from the boy that his step-mother used to order him out of the house whenever she found him there. Lately she seldom found him at home because her treatment. of him became actu- ally brutal. He used to loaf around the street all day, depending upon bite here and there, running errands and thus earning supper or din ner. Pentino finally used to feed the boy regularly. He would not dare go home until all would be in bed, and then he'd creep in window and he would get out in the morning before his father and step-mother would awake. In this way he saved him self a good many cuffs.
 Officer Myers gave him quarter one day and the boy bought pair of ''sneaks." His step-mother took them away and hid them. But the boy got them again and every night before creeping into the house he would hide them outside so his step- mother would not see and perhaps destroy them.
 One day he asked her for a clean waist and she told him she had none because she had no soap with which to wash.
 Last night Officer Brickel gave the boy dime and he bought a bag of cookies and had a feast. This, how ever, was not the first time the boy was helped by the officer.
 Last night the matter was report sd to Humane Agent J. A. Peasley md the arrest of the father and step- mother followed. The above was the tory as told substantially by Officers 3rickel and Myers and the boy in he city court. Judge Peasley heard | he case and imposed sentence of hirty days in jail for both, but sus- pended the execution of the judg- nent, putting the accused on proba- ion, with the understanding that | he probation officer shall keep his business eye on them and report the | lrst indication of a tendency to wade their responsibility toward the | ,oy.