Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-19
Detectives in Case of Iowa Boy
kidnapped at Dover Near
Solution
BLUE MITTEN AS A cLEw
Delaware Legislature Asked to APP
propriate $4,000 as Reward for
Conviction of kidnapers-Fire Used
in Hunt for Hoy-Roat Theory Being
Discussed.
,ecial to Times Republican.

| Special to Times Republican.
Sioux City, March ia dispatch
| from Dover, Del, says that arrests are
=! expected to be made soon in the kid
MAPPING case of the son of Dr. H. N
Marvin, who left this city few weeks
| ago.
/ The legislature was called upon to
| take still more pronounced steps to-
wards the apprehension Of the kid
| napers of little Horace Marvin and
| to offer a reward of $4,000 for the app
prehension Of the abductors and their
! conviction.
The levy court, too, may offer re-
ward. The prospects for the return OF
the boy are no brighter than at any
ttime last week.
The enegro's story about the sloop is
being widely discussed. He says he
went to the point on the beach where
the sloop had been and found lying
there blue mitten, this answering the
description of the mittens worn by the
missing child.
With all accident possibilities elm
mated, the Pinkerton detectives will
soon demand the key to the puzzle
from three or four persons who for
some time have been suspected of hav-
ing information Of criminal nature.
Superintendent Dimalo had another
conference with Governor Lea. The
governor and detective grow more con-
fidential every day, and move and talk
more like men who are collecting evi-
dence for a jury than men who are
solving mysteries. Hundreds of tele-
grams come daily from the many
points where detectives verify or dis
credit every detail Of signed state
nlenls taken from every man and wom-
an connected with the case in any
way
1t was spectacular sight when
kerosene torches were applied to the
seven-foot salt grass and brushWood
on the Marvin farm. The flames mile
in width, were borne across the 750
acres of farmland on high ,northwes-
terly gale down to the Delaware bay.
Charred and barren the farm looked
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farmers holding a rope started across
the hot embers on the third days vain
search.
Among the volunteer searchers none
was more eager than Oliver Pleasan-
ton, the nearest neighbor Of DR.. Mar
vim, who, strangely enough was the
victim of kidnapping case some years
ago. Pleasanton had adopted a little
girl named Elsie Smith, and brought
her UP as his own child. One morning
while the Pleasanton family lived at
Leipsic, few miles from here, the
adopted daughter disappeared as mys-
teriously as the Marvin boy.
Pleasanton with his neighbors
searched his farm as DR.. Marvin's farm
has been searched, but no trace Of the
child was ever found. Pleasanton was
only indirectly informed not to search
any further, as the girl was in posses
sion Of it's parents.
Marvin With an Ak.
While the search was being con-
big stack of wood and
sought mental relief by saving and
chopping wood all day.
Superintendent Dimalo, with his as
sistant, Detective Simmons, searched
for a second time the farm buildings.
They even climbed on top of the COW
sheds in the barnyard and examined
the straw and corn shucks piled on top
for the protection of the farm animals.
These efforts were fruitless.
Governor Lee will probably make
Dover his headquarters for some time,
personally experimenting the search
for the boy. He said that We're it not
for the fact that he is incapacitated as
a result of a recent fall he would lead
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