Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-29
FreehOIder GOttlieb Expresses
His Faith in Affidavit Made
by Mrs. HinkeI.
CALLS FOR SEARCHING
INVESTIGATION" HE SAYS
DR.. Dill Denies All knowledge OF
Charges and Declares lie
= Is Being HOunded.


Of Mrs. Francesca Hlnkel that she wit
/ messed an attack in the old South Or
ange avenue asylum by three nurses
I on a patient By the name of Catherine
Lindner, and that the patient died a.
result Of this beating, and that It is
more than likely that the skeleton
found in the asylum building was thai
OF this patient, Freeholder Theodo.e q.
( Gottlieb said today that Mrs Hinkei.s
story Is reliable and worthy of the
fullest and most searching inyestigaz
| ton.
! 1t became known today that Mrs
Hinlel went with her story to Mr.
Gottlieb when he was practising law
and that she also retained Henry Hahn
Mrs. Hinlsel said today that she gave
to Mr.. Hahn letter which had sbeen
written by nurse who witnessed the
beating of the Lindner woman caution
ing her TO keep silent. She said that
| another letter written by this nurse IS
in the hands OF Chief Wiener, of the
prosecutors office.
Mrs. Hinkel told me Of the brutal
treatment accorded the women patients
| in the asylum said Freeholder Gott-
/ lieb today. Il knew that the story was
told to the prosecutor and to two grand
| juries. l have great deal of faith IN
parts of the woman's story
Former Employees ON Rack.
1t also developed today tnat at this
| last secret hearing of the freeholders'
committee when is investigating the
/ asylum scandal, there was exhibited one
of the regulation asylum passes made
out to see Mrs. Lindner in ward
10. The pass was dated February
IS, 1904 At that time two men
other than DR.. Dill were authorized
to issue passes. One Is Samuel
Smith. an epiltptic, who at present is
at overbroolS and John Decker. now
an assistant clerk Of the district court.
Decker proved conclusively to the CON-
mittee that the handwriting or the pass
was not bis. The freeholders then pit
1 ii up to Smith He was asked to write
/ out seyeral passes, and the freehoidsrs
closely compared it with the pass in
their possession
Smith was closely questioned. Under
q fire of questions he said that it was
possible that he had made out the pass.
All this developed after DR.. Dill had
emphatically declared that he had not
[
recollection OF any woman by the name
of Lindner
The story of Mrs. Hinkel had snany
strong considerations today II her
affidavit she tells of the clothing Of a
Mrs. King which was worn by her
daughter when she was leaving the
asylum. This clothing is now il evil
dence. In her affidavit Mrs Hinkei re-
cites that when her daughter left the
asylum Mrs. Lirldner called her back
insisting that the clothing belonged tc
Mrs King.
DR.. Dill said today II am being
bounded. am the victim Of perse
cution. am satisfied that the pass OF
the Lindner woman, which was pro
duced at the last meeting of the free
holders committee, is forgery.
This is really ridiculous. The Hinkei
woman has been telling these stories
for a good many years. She told 4
story about her daughter and obtained
a Grand Jury investigation. Two pilx
sicians made an examination and re-
ported that the statements were With
out foundation.
THE trouble between this institution
and Mrs. Hinl1el arose over the cfar-
acter of the language she USED when q
caller. In Difference TO the other Tist-
tors and the in1aates and attendants. !
found it NECESSARY to issue an order
, that she was to be excluded frts:sl the
institution. Her stories show imagina
tion.
There never was woman named
Lindner in the hospital. have evidence
to prove it. So far as can learn the
Lindner woman is q creation Of the
mind of this HinkeI woman. Mrs
Hinkel has been telling stories about
the hospital for the last five years and
they have all been diseredited. We
have nothing to fear from anything
that she may say. II can do no harri
! to give it the widest publicity
Mrs Hinkel swears that there were
two letters written her by the nurse. IN
which the nurse begged Mrs Hinkel
not to tell whats had happened at the
asylum. Mrs. Hinkel says that this
nurse was discharged from the asylum
because she had talked too much.
: Here is Mrs. HinI1eis affidavit;
Entered Asylum, in 1909.
MY daughter, Anna Hinkel entered
the Essex County Hospital for the In
sane on November 4. 1903. and my bus
band. who is now dead, and I, did noE
see her until February, 1904 We saw
her for the first time on February p.
: after we had been informed BY .
nurse at the hospital that our daugi,-
ter had been ili-treated. We found her
with her head split open and after
some delay got permission to take her
out of the hospital on parole
"On Thursday. February 25, 1874.
went to the hospital between II and L.
o'clock in the morning and asked fer
the permit TO take my daughter home
got 1t, and the nurses. went in ward
!, 10, where she was. to dress her When
, Anna came out dressed Mrs. Catherine
Lindner, or ''Kittie. as she was cHIiea
at the hospital. called TO Anna sFon ve
Z got Miss Kings clothes ON Where are
) you going with them ! told her X
that was 40 would sec that the clothes
were sent back as soon as Anna got
home.
Mrs. Lindner insisted that the clothes