The New York herald., 1922-07-10
MISSING BOY FOUND,
CHEF HELD IN BAIL
Theodore Borick, 8, Tells Po-
lice He Spent Week on
Farm With Preussler.

Theodore Borick, 8. son Of Mrs. Anna
Caponi OF 800 East Twenty-eighth street,
whose disappearance from his home on
June 2S led the police to believe he had
been kidnapped, was found yesterday at
the corner of Twenty-fourth street and
Second avenue by Detectives Byrne and
Mcdonald of the East Thirty-fifth street
station.
Two hours before he was found Otto
p. Preussler. a chef IS. of 1920 Third
avenue. VINO was arrested Saturday
night in connection with the boys dis
appearance, was held in $4,000 bail by
Magistrate George w. Simpson in tie
Yorkville Court and lodged in the
jefferson Market Prison charged with
kidnapping. The boy is being held at the
Childrens Society for examination in
the Childrens Court to-day and Preuss-
Ter will be examined tomorrow.
Preussler told the police that he took
the boy TO q farm in the country to give
him a vacation. He bought him three
suits of clothes and paid his board at the
farm for a week. at the end of which
time he says he gave kin his car fare
back to New York and placed him in
charge of man named McCann, who
was returning to the city after a va
cation on the farm. Mccain. Preussler
said, told him he lived on Seventeenth
street between First avenue and Avenue
A. Preussler said that he had the
mothers consent to take the child, but
in the Yorkville Court yesterday Mrs.
Caponi denied that she had ever seen
him before. The story told by Preussler
is corroborated by that Of the boy.
In jefferson Market Prison yesterday
Preussler, who says he speaks several
languages and has been five times
around the world collecting the auto
graphs and photographs of famous
personages which he intends some day to
publish in book form, told the following
story to NEW YORK HERALD reporter ::
Il was employed as chef as the
Blooming Grove Hunting and Fishing
Club at Glen Eyre, Pa. and came to
New York about month ago on three
day vacation, and having a package to
be taken to an address uptown asked a
boy whom / saw on the street If he
would deliver it for me- found after
ward that he had been very honest about
1t and had delivered 1t, and when l was
again in town, about week ago, / saw
the boy again, and, thinking him an
honest lad, asked him IL he would like a
vacation in the country.
HE was with another boy at the time,
and / offered 10 take the both Of them.
The two decided that they must go home
and ask their parents. which they did.
The Borick boys mother came back with
him, and after wrongfully accusing me
for being the cause of the boys disap-
pearances, which had occurred several
times before, finally agreed to let him
go. The other boy said he could not go,
so took the Borick boy, bought him
three suits of clothes and took him up
to the farm of Mrs. Frosch in Beaver
Brook. N. Y.
II paid his board and my own there
for a week. I would have been willing
to have kept him there a month IL the
other boy had come along too. but
after the week was up / began to feel
that something might happen, so / put
him In charge Of a Mr.. Mccain, who had
been living at the farm and who said he
was returning to the city"
According to Preussler, the boy should
have returned to his home on Friday.
but was afraid to do so for fear of his
stepfather, who, Preussler says. was in
the habit Of beating him. Preussler said
that at the farm he and the boy were
provided with Q single room.
The police say that the boy had evil
IDENTIFY profited by his vacation. as he
was tanned and healthy when he was
found. AL the time he was wearing one
of the suits bought by Preussler. con-
sisting of a pair of khaki trousers, stock
ings, blouse and necktie. Preussler said
he had sent the rest of his clothes to his
home by mail and a post card was found
on him by the police which was directed
to the boy, stating that the clothes had
been sent. Mrs. Caponi said yesterday
that the clothes mad not yet arrived.