Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-05-09
Body Yves Found Saturday 'ir
Marshes about Half O Mile
from Home.
PROBABLY EXHAUSTED.
No Marks OF Violence on the body
Child May HIVE Frozen or Starved
to Dcath-His Father suspects
Foul Plny-About 1000 At
tended the Funeral.

Dover, Del, May 5.---The body of
Horace Marvin. Jr which was found on
Saturday lying In n pool Of water on
the marshes less than half u milo from
where he was last seen playing on
March 4. was buried to-day in Bay
Meadow Lawn" on the Marvin farm.
All the childs playmates aud fully a
thousand nelghbore attended the fu-
neral services. Prior 10 the funeral
"a men, comprising Coroner Gallo
ways jury. officially identified the
body and authorized an autopsy. The
jury was then discharged to recon-
vene at the call Of the coroner. There
is much to make it apparent that the
boy wandered away and fell exhausted
into the pool where his body was
found. Doctors James NJ Wilson, Will
bur u. Burton, VIM. +. ITooy and AL
fred Robyn, the latter a bacteriologist
are trying to determine the cause Of
death for the coroner and have decided
that the boy did not drown.
No marks Of violence were found on
the body and the physicians say that a
, ridge across the back about four inches
wide which it was at first thought. might
have been made by the wheels of p
wagon passing over it. was caused by the
body swelling on either side of the
waist band of the kilt suit. The stomach,
which was removed by Or Robyn was
| empty and the child may either have
been frozen or starved to death. The con-
dition OF the stomach indicates, according
to the physicians that the hoy suffered
privation for at least forty hours prior
| to death.
| Many Of the jurymen and detectives are
Of tho opinion that he wandered around
his fathers farm and in his efforts 10 get
back home, in view of the frozen marshes,
became exhausted fell into the pool and
died Of exhaustion and privation. A few
still believe that the little fellow was
murdered, The detectives are perplexed
at the discovery Of the body so near tho
Marvin home and at spot which they
had walked over AGAIN and again. To
have reached the place whore the body
was found the hoy must have walked
across frozen and snow covered fields IN
the face of a driving wind and then
climbed two emhankments besides crawl
ing through a barbed wire fence.
FINDIND or THE BODY.
Dover, Del, May 5.-Lying in a marshy
| piece Of land. The body Of little Horace
Marvin, son Of Dr. II y. Marvin, whose
mysterious disappearance from the Bay
Meadow farm, near Dover had baffled
solution since Marcel /, was found abou.
| half a mile from the Marvin farm yester-
fday by Ollie Plcasautor. a farmer.
Pleasanton, who lies on a farm ad-
| joining the MsrvinS. came upon the
child's body while Out cunning.
The child lay fac downward in a
patch of meadow era IS.
|. There was not a mark upon the little
| boys body indicating foul play. 1t
was in a good state # preservation, sug-
costing that it had been frozen.
| Pleasanton says he saw the body at a
distance of 20 feet.
Yesterday several runners passed over
was there then.
| The spot where the body was found is
midway between the Marvin home and
| the delaware river.
When Ollie Pleasat On came upon the
chld's body he found the clothing in
tact The boys little wooden REFER was
buttoned up securely about the body
and not an article o. clothing which he
| nau on Wuen ne u4S pp2dreI was miss
| ing. His knit cap was pulled over his
| face and his mitr'ns We're on his
| hands.
| DR.. Marvin says he has searched over
| the same marsh neary every day since
the disappearance. ald with detectives
| burned grass on the place four weeks
ago, but saw no signs If the body.
| The theory that the body has beer
recently placed whore 1t was found |.
| supported by the fac that DIR. Marvir
as well detectives stood on the spot
when they burn, tn tails sage gras:
! from II.
Further than this tine marsh has beer
| trampled over time and again within
the past week by neifhbors and no sigr
Of the child was seen.
| DR.. Marvin went on A run TO the place
described by Pleasanton and gently picked
up the little form. pulling his cap from
| the face to make sure that 1t was his boy
4 Being satisfied that II was his son, til,
doctor wrapped the remains In a shee
and carried him to the house, where h,
notified the family,
| DIR. Marvin is convinced that his sor
met with foul play.
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