Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-30
MYsTERIoUsLY DISAPPEARED.
Nothing Seen Of . Passenger on an Oces
Steamer for Over . Week.

Nothing Seen Of . Passenger on an Ocean
Steamer for Over . Week.
The police Of the four cities, New York,
Brooklyn, Heboken and Jersey City, comprised
In the metropolitan district, have been unable
| to find any trace Of DR.. John Kertell, who mys-
| teriously disappeared from Naegel's Hotel,
Hudson and Sd streets, Hoboken, last Thurs
day. The police were not notified until Tues
day Of DIR. Kertell's disappearance, but since
then they have lost no time in trying to trace
his movements
The missing man WAS drst cabin passenger
on the steamship Rugia. which was he'd a.
quaran tine for a couple of weeks. Her pas
sengers were landed on Monday, September 19,
and DIR. Kertell, among others, went to
Naegel's Hotel He seems TO have made many
friends on the vessel. Among these were Otto
Dreetye Of Santa Fe, n. NJ. who is now staying
at 105 Hudson street. Hoboken; c. ]. Larsen.
who has since returned to Chicago, and Carl
Schenbach OF 1870 West I'D street, New York
city.
The latter seems to have been the doctors
intimate friend on shipboard and il is to him
the police are indebted for such history as they
possess Of the missing man. DIR. Kertell did
not receive his baggage from the Rugia until
Wednesday night In the meantime he had
been greatly worried about it. Thursday noon
DIR. Ker.ell left the hotel, saying he was going
TO Ramps restaurant, on Lower Broadway in
New York CITY, where. he said. he used to go
when he WAS in New York sixteen years ago.
Ramps has been closed for nearly eight years.
SchenbGch had called GU DIR. kertell several
times and had always been informed that he
was out. Last Tuesday he called again, and on
learning that the doctor had not been at the
hotel since Thursday he suggested an invest-
cation. kertell 8 room was locked but the
door broken down and DR.. Kertell's effects.
consisting OF trunk, vaiise and wearing
apparel, we're found in the room. There
nothing to suggest suicide or to give the slight
est clue as to where the missing man might
have gone.
Mr.. Schenbach and young Naegeli at once
notified the Hoboken police and they in turn
sent description of DR.. Kertell to the New
York. Brooklyn and Jersey City police.
HE told US, said Schenbach to Chief Jack
son of the Hoboken police department, that
he had n snug fortune and was coming to this
country to spend few years. He had married
an American woman, he said, whose mother
lives in Seattle. She was his >, cond wife and
they did not live happily together. For that
reason he was coming TO the United States,
where, he thought. he might make an invest
ment. DIR. kertell carried under his shirt next
to his chest, pouch. which. he said contained
$4,000. On one occasion he showed us roll
OF bills. which. he said. consisted OF 5000. He
added that he had lots more
His acquaintance suggest that as he had q
large sum of money with him he might have
met with fonl play. Another theory is that he
might have been drinking too much and been
taken to an asylum, but a search of all the in
situations IN the different cities has failed TO re-
veal any trace of the missing man.