Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-12
DEMAND FOR RANSOM
Two Separate Offers to Re-
store the Marvin Child.
ONE SENT TO THE GOVERNOR
Pinkerton Men Still Think the Child
Met With Accident.
NO BELIEF IN ONE CLUE
Parties Organized to Continue the
Search Under the Supervision
of a Detective.
ONE SENT TO THE GOVERNOR
o BELIEF IN ONE CLUE

DOVER, Del, March 1.-Two separate
demands for ransom money ended long
day of fruitless search for the body of the
missing Horace Marvin, the four-year-old
son of DR.. Marvin of Bay Meadows, who
disappeared a week ago yesterday.
One of them was addressed directly to
Gov. Lea by former State Detective Francis
of this state. He told the governor that he
was in communication with parties who
were holding the boy in Canada and wanted
S1.CG0 paid in gold through the Sheldon De-
tective Agency of New York. Richard Will
burton of Jersey City made the other de-
mand. He asked $1,000 in behalf of parties
who promise to return the boy safely to his
parents. DR.. Marvin also received letter
from F. A. Barber of Mechanicsville, n. Y,
telling of a man and woman carrying
little boy with them and staying at his
house over night.
AS soon as Gov. Lea had had his inter-
view with Detective Francis he communi-
Gated with the Pinkerton detectives in
charge of the state Investigation. Francis
asserted that he had positive information
about persons who are alleged to have fled
to Canada with the missing boy, and said
that the Sheldon Detective Agency had in
structions as to where the ransom money
should cross the border But the Pinkerton
men appear to have little confidence in the
clue OIL FRANCIS anu the SneluOn DeieCllN6
Agency. Wilburton's message from Jersey
City is apparently taken more seriously by
them.
II Can Get Him."
Wilburton says: II know all about your
boy. 1 can get him. The rest of the letter
is kept secret, but at the top of the page
was written 1000 dollars All other let
tiers received have been thrown aside, but
for some reason the detectives have filed
Wilburtons letter, which came in the last
mail last night.
The Mechanicsville letter says: There is
no doubt that l can give you some infor-
nation in regard to your kidnapped son.
Last Wednesday evening at 10 pm. our
doorbell rang, and on going to the door
there was a man and a woman, with
little boy in the mans arms. He said to
me if We would keep them over night he
would be glad, as he did not, like hotels.
He said he wanted to leave on the first
train on the B. & M.railroad, which leaves
at 5:45 am toward Boston. We kept them
all night, and the man gave me So 1t did
not occur to us that anything was wrong
until l read about your kidnapped boy to-
day.
Many Crank Letters Received.
The Pinkerton men are slow to believe
that these letters really mean more than
other letters which have come from every
state in the Union. A woman in New
prayers, a medium by which she says she
has restored many lost keys. knives and
other articles for her friends. woman
in Camden, two women in New York, one
in Philadelphia, one in Pittsburg and one
in Bordentown all declare positively that
they have seen DIR. Marvin S lost child in
charge of negroes.
This has shaken the detective in their
theory that the boy was not stolen, but
that he met with an accident. Following
bis- CT rt a1 ri dow
morning for the scene of the boys dis
appearance. Starting from the haystack
on which he was last seen, Superintendent
Dimaio found that former searchers had
only dug into the stack, and he insists
that the entire stack be removed today. He
organized party of twenty farmers for
this work, which will be superintendent
by Pinkerton detective to make sure that
nothing is overlooked.
May Have Hidden There
Next to the haystack, the detectives came
upon the barn full of hay in which the boy
might have gone to hide from his little
cousin who was coming toward him when
he disappeared. All the hay was thrown
out yesterday and everything else in the
barn was turned upside down to make sure
that the lads body was not hidden under
or behind anything.
Wells and marsh pools were sounded with
long >iked poles. but this did not satisfy
the detective chief, who ordered suction
pumps, with which all marsh holes and
wells will be emptied. Further plans for
making the search for the child's body are
to set the brushwood and the salt grass on
fire today.
country party on horseback has also
been organized by Superintendent Dimaio.
The scouts will go over every inch of
ground within radius of half mile from
the Marvin haystack. Superintendent Di-
maio's argument is that the ping will
either be absolutely established or abso-
lutely disproved by thorough search of
the immediate neighborhood of the hay
stack. He expects either to find the boys
body, or to have absolute grounds for sus-
pecting some persons.