Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-15
DAUGHTER IN JAIL,
FATHER, cRAzED,
TRIES TO END LIFE
Girl Arrested After
Attack; Men She
Accuses Free.
TRAGEDY WRECKS NEW
HOME OF WINK FAMILY
Unable to Speak English and
Friendiess, Joy Turns
Into Grief.

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jailed Cornelius L. Wink, who came
here from Holland a few weeks ago
in search of an Eldorado. is today
in the City Hospital recovering from
an attempt to drown himself.
Tragedy is written into every line
of the brief story of the Wink family.
The father faces a charge of at
tempted suicide, one girl is accused
of a serious crime and the mother
is i'll with grief.
Girls Sought Work.
The two daughters. Hendrika, Is
years old, and Elizabeth, 10. are
both small children, unable to speak
English. Two weeks ago their fam
lily finances ran so low that in order
to pay the rent of their ne whome
at rs Stanton street they were forced
to go out in search of employment.
Elizabeth applied for work at the
ladies' tailoring establishment of
Jacob Laff, 35 years old, of 70 Avon
avenue, On July 81. After being
promised a position, 1t is alleged that
she was insulted by Laff.
Ten days later the two girls went
into the shop of Orazio Infusino, a
shoemaker, 1877 Clinton avenue, to
have a pair of shoes repaired. After
Elizabeth had been put out. Hendrika,
according to her w story. was as
saulted by Infusino. Another man
in the shop, Augustine Valenti, of 6
Elizabeth avenue, so she later testi-
fed, kissed her.
Men Are Arrested.
When the terrified girls told their
story, Laff, Infusino and Valenti
were arrested.
The two girls, torn from the side
of their frantic father, were sen to
the House of Detention, Elizabeth, as
a material witness, and Hendrika, or
a charge similar to that made against
the men.
Cornelius Wink. jr.,- and Leon. who
came here from Rotterdam six
months g and can speak only q
little English, acted as interpreters
for their sisters in the First Precinct
Police Court on Saturday.
Although Acting Judge Rooney ex-
perienced the greatest difficulty in
questioning the girsl. he understood
from their answer that Valenti had
done nothing more than kiss them.
But ~Infusino was held in 5000 bail
and Laff, after Elizabeht's story OF
abuse had been told, was held in
81 1000 bail. Both were subsequently
rtl---41l T-e- hnpd and
Laff with apparently no security,
The mother and the brother of the
girls claim they were wrongly ac-
cused by the men. who sought in
that way. they say. to establish their
innocence.
Girl Goes TO Jail.
Elizabeth was released and allowed
to return to the home of her par
ents. but Hendrika was sent to Els
sex county jail in default of $500 bail
She is still confined in Jail, and witt
no prospects of being released. as
the family are such utter strongers.
With all that she has had to under
go, added to the fact that her hus-
band is out of employment, Mrs
Wink when visited by IAN Evening
Star reporter was found in a serious
condition. She is Frustrated from
grief and cries continually, begging
for the return of her daughter ano
husband. Elizabeth and Katherine,
II years old, do all in their power
to comfort their grief-strieken par
ent. but with little success. The lit
tie family. which has now been re-
duced to three, with the exception OF
two brothers, who have been in this
country six months and provided 9
heat home for their parents and sis
tiers, presents a -pitable scene.
Grief Graves zlther.
Yesterday afternoon the parents
visited 'Hendrika in Jail. There they
found her with the prison pallor on
her face, instead of the r~osy-cheeked
child she was a few days ago. Her
eyes were swollen from crying and
from loss of sleep, and confined in q
pen with the lowest forms of female
humanity, criminals, drunkards and
loiterers. The girls clothes were dis
arranged, her hair d~isheveled, and
the sight was more than the fond
father could stand.
Returning to his home, and after
gazing in an apparently dazed con-
dition at the photograph of his eld-
est daughter, he kissed his family
good bye, and telling them he was
going to kill himself, raj from the
house to the park. Arriving at the
hooEs Of tho Ia ka he MINCED head