Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-05-11
HORACE
MARVIN
HIS BODY FOUND NEAR
DOVER, DELAWARE.
AE MAS TIE EcN WHO DIS.
APPEARED -ARLY ~ Tt4E
MONTHS OF NARcH.

Dover. nel-Thc body 81 little Ho-
race Marvin. Who disappeared from
the farm q his father ca kiftsham-
raock. near here March & Vas found
Saturday afternoon in q marsh IN .
state uf preservation. Tire spuf where
the body was found IS hair a mile east
~ the farmhouse toward the Della
Nare river Kittshammuck ls between
serpn and eight miles from here. and
from information hrourht here by a
horseman it Is learned that the clothes
upon the child are the same he were
ghe dag be- disappeared The body was
face downward
The marsh was fruzen over the aay
ne hos appeared There Be- q theory
that the boy was murdered and his
ECdF PLACED en- fhe marsh a. the Ions
grass where TIE body Was fufn@ WIS
lmned snd cleared four nees ago
81 is said ,he body lag under a plis -
grass and Thar the clothing sAswe6
no evidence a. having been touched
g. Gre
nr Marvin has given out the fol
lowing statement
THE terrii la developments simply
confirm the theory to which have
held ali aiouE shat ms hos vas muir.
dered think b. was either fhe vie
Sim of a degenerate "a kidnnUpers who
lost their nerve after they had secured
the child ! sru believe that Defoe.
tive Lore was on the right track when
be- was Interrupted BY the action 81
tEe attorney general"
Clues which the detectives have
Teen following swiftly since the find
lnE of the hoev point consistently 60 z
man vel known 90 fhe father OF the
dead boy. and il IS tbs general belief
in Dover that the nos famous Mar.
san kidnapping ystery--secoud only
/ ~ interest to the famous Charley Ross
case-is near a solution
The body a. the year old victim
oI one ~ the crueiest tragedies ever
lperpetrafe5 iu Delaware lies ia a room
u the fathers house. water soaked
and beeT,mad with marsh slime the
physiciantather having forbidden Il
Icing touched until the coroner and
Attorney General Robert III Richards
arrive t1morroW 10 hold the inquest
! q hich is expected 60 show the methods
10y which the ehiids death was
wrought So Ear no announcement has
been made at DF. Marvin's home nthei
fhan that the grief stricken father Is
confident that hts child was the victim
I.
made and 81 is nos known whether the
/ child vas straneled. starved. dubbed
20 death or drowned
II is Impossible 10 say even On the
/ vord U Those who saW the chile g
\ body how lone he had been dead The
remains were in Sc sell preserved
state a. almost e. have excluded the
possibility IT the boys having been
allied en- March the date 81 his dis.
appearance On the other hand. theg
I appeared in toe advanced stage 81
/ lecom position for the murder % have
/ taaen place as recently as tWo days
ago
There Is much 60 make 81 appear
that the boy wandered away and fell
Exhausted into the pool No MARKS 81
violence Eere found on the body. The
stomach Was empty. and the child mas
ie.ther have been frozen OF starved "a
Iceath. Detectives are perple1el az the
finding 81 The body near the Marvin
home and a. a point which they had
walked over again and again.
Sensation IN Sioux City.
/ sioua City. Iowa. May She find
ing q the body of Horace Marvin
probably created a greater sensation
10 Si0u2 City than Ia ans other plare
/ lt was from here shat Dr. Marvin ven
two weeks before hls bereavement
after a continuous residence here q.
more than - wears he vas admired
1 - all. and the recent death 81 little
+ Horace's mother made tire disappear
ance seem more pathetic. whether
1 the boys body vas recently taken
back 90 the farm Is being debated
every where.
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