The evening world., 1894-09-26
OTTO STILL MISSING.
Young Markets. Mother Positive
He Was Kidnapped.
He Was a Brokers Messenger and
Disappeared Last Friday.
All Efforts of the Police to Trace
Him Have Failed.

Otto Markert. the ffteen-year-old mes
senger of Berlin & Son. brokers, at 80
Broad street has disappeared as COM
pletely as through the earth had opened
and swallowed him.
Since the moment on Friday morning
that he parted with a friend in a City
Hall blue car on his way to work he has
not been seen nor heard Of by any enc
who knew him.
The absolute effacement from the
world that knew him is given public
interest by every feature of the case
in these lawless times.
81 know that Otto Is kept from me
against his will. If he is alive and was
able to do SO. he would come home
or send me word" sobbed his mother
this morning.
That she tad just grounds for her
faith in her boy Is not to be disputed.
He was u good boy, on the testimony
of the neghbors and his employers.
who will not fill his place until assured
that he will never come back.
The most extraordinary efforts have
been made in the past week to locate
Otto. Two general police alarms have
been sent out in neighboring cities. In
spector Mclaughlin has worked on the
case in person; the Gerry Society has
multiplied copies of the boys photo
graph and scattered them broadcast, and
every spot that the boy might visit Of
his own accord has been repeatedly
searched.
Otto is the younger son of Andrew
Markert, a barber, living at 517 East
Fourteenth street. He was taken out
of school about a year ago and put to
work in an advantageous situation
with Berlin & Son.
dious, and seldom or never left the
house upon returning from work. He
found his only companions among the
Sieber boys, who live In the same ten
ement and their pleasures lay chiefly
in music, house games and the reading
of books from the Sixteenth Street Cir
culating Library.
At the office, Otto is said to have been
honest. prompt and intelligent. He was
regularly trusted with errands to the
banks. on which occasions he often car
Friday morning Otto left home with
Joseph Siefert, who is seventeen years
old This boy said that night as soon as
Mr. and Mrs. Markert became alarmed,
that he had left Otto in the blue car
at Chambers street and Park Row.
The father notified the police that night
and next morning went down to Berlin
& Son and learned that Otto had not
reported ut the office the previous morn
ing. Mr.. Berlin called upon the
Markets. that afternoon and promised
to do anything in his power to unravel
the mystery.
Last Saturday the police sent out a
general alarm with this description:
bright looking boy, about fifteen years
old, medium height, has light hair and
dark brown eyes. wore n black derby
hat, black sack coat and vest, outing
shirt, brown striped trousers and laced
shoes"
The alarm was repeated last Monday.
The mother has been twice to Carteret
n. j.. where her elder son lives, and has
written to her cousin In Orangeburg,. N
j: The boy has not been seen In either
place.
Mrs. Markert was asked by an Even.
Ing World' reporter to-day II Otto read
books of adventure that might excite q
usually read approved works of fiction
and had never read boys cheap litera-