New-York tribune., 1913-07-29
Rescued by Police, Who Found
Girl UnCIothed and Young
Man Suffering TOrtureS
Of Neglect.
RICH FATHER PUT IN CELL
Neighbors Wrote of Cries and
Search Revealed Terrible Sit
uation of Brother and Sis
ter-Three Sentenced
for Beatings.

chief Of Police Hayes. Of Hoboken,
got a letter yesterday signed by fifteen
tenants Of the house at No. 125 Madi-
son street. Hoboken, in which they said
that FOR a week or more they had been
hearing cries and means coming from
the fat occupied by Michael Zumino, on
the second floor. Saturday. the letter
said. ono ~ the tenants saw the face
- a strange appearing girl pressed to
the pane az one OF the windows. Then
the curtains fell and the face vanished
Hayes sent Detectives Barrone and
CORNELL 10 the Madison street house
with search warrant, and locked in a
room on the second floor they found
young woman. The room was dark
and contained very little furniture.
The girl lay on a cot. where she was
bound with heavy rope. She was un-
clad. and her limbs were drawn up by
means Of the rope so that her knees
touched her chin. Her hair was matted
about her face. The young man.
clothed in rags. was in even worse
condition than the girl His eyes were
starting from their sockets. and his
hair fell i'm a tangled mass about
sunkcn checks. partly concealed by a
scraggy beard that looked as If it had
not been trimmed IN months. His
hands were black with CRIME. and his
finger nails were like talons.
Children Of Rich Men.
The unfortunate creatures we're
Annie Zumino, twenty-five years old.
and Frank Zumino her brother. twen-
ty-five years old. the children Of
Michael Zumino. who owns a fruit
stand at church and Worth streets,
New York. The detectives provided
clothing for the girl and the strange
pair we're taken to the county jail,
where they were fed. The prison bar
bers shaved Frank and cut his hair.
When Barrone and Cornelli went to
the house they met Mary Zumino. ar
older sister. She refused to let them
search the house. but they showed their
warrant and went ahead. The woman
offered no explanation Of the predica-
ment of her brother and sister, so the
detectives arrested her for assault and
battery. From neighbors CORNELL
learned the Whereabouts of the father
Detectives shadowed him on his way
home and arrested him as soon as he
reached Hoboken in the evening.
The police learned that Annie and
Frank were half-witted from birth
and this condition was made worse by
in treatment They talked incoher-
entity about their captivity, which was
q matter of months. possibly Of years
The police found that some weeks ago
Zumino tried to have the young man
and girl placed in home at the eX-
pense Of Hudson County. The authori-
ties investigated and found that Zumi-
no was worth in the neighborhood Of
So. 900 The police say he owns part
Of the block in Madison street where he
lives.
CITY physicians eAhi'iiH'u Fn''''io anu
Frank last night and ordered their de-
tention At the Jail for observation. It
is probable they Will be committed to
an ASYLUM this week. where their father
will be compelled to pay for their sup
port
Girl Beaten, Two Sentenced.
George Graeorginia and his son.
stephen, Greeks, Of No. $40 Henderson
street Jersey City, were sentenced to
terms Of one year in Jail each by Judge