Fortune-Teller'S Son

Why was six-year-old Otto Rigan alone on a ship to America in 1927?

Ottos father, Mathias, was left on the dock in Austria by his parents when they sailed to America. Why was he left? Though he was young, Mathias adopted a monkey and earned a living as a fortune-teller in Vienna.

Marriage produced a son, but within two years, his wife departed for Americaleaving Mathias with little Otto and Mucki to...