Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
MARVIN BOY FOUND.
SAY THE POLICE
CITY of Dover is Much Excited Over
the Return of the Child.

told to seek his boy. formerly was a street.
car barn. but now has been converted into
an office building and is occupied by the
mechanical departments of several maya
zines The only person in the building
whose name resembled the name signed to
the telegram sent to DR.. Marvin was VIII
liam Drummer employed in the printing de-
partment Of the Frank A. Munsey publica-
lions. Drummer, when called before his
employers declared that he never had read
of the kidnapping of the Marvin boy, but as
he was leaving the room after a severe
cross examination he turned at the door
and said
81 guess you think I am after the thou
sand?"
Drummer was recalled after making that
remark and again subjected to an examina-
ton. but he continued to assert that he
knew nothing of the Marvin boy and had
not written the letter. The New York pO-
lice were not informed of the Drummer
letter.
Disappeared Four Weeks Ago.
DOVER, Del. March 30.-Little Horace
Marvin disappeared on March 4. He was
last seen playing near a haystack some
distance from his fathers house, and days
afterward this was torn apart in the hope
that the boy might have fallen asleep In
1t and been buried. After a fruitless
give 100000. representing his entire for
tune. for the return of his son, and also
offered to pay for any information. On
the next day, March Z. the legislature Of
Delaware passed a bill Offering an addi-
tional $4,000 reward and pledging the
state officials to aid in the search.
DR.. Marvin, in his desperation, con-
suited clairvoyant, and was told that the
boy had been stolen by a man in a long
coat who carried the child toward the
water. The search was taken up on Della
ware bay. and hundreds of fishing craft
were searched. A fisherman. John Hart,
was arrested and held two days on sus-
picion but as he gave a straight account
of himself, although his movements were
said to have been very mysterious around
the date of the crime, he was released.
A Capital Crime.
Kidnapping is a capital crime in Della
ware and the excitement in the neighbor-
hood of the home of DR.. Marvin for four
weeks has been intense. At one time every
available man in the city Of Dover was
engaged in the search. Many reports that
the child was being held for ransom came
in from outlying cities. He was reported
successfully as having been seen in Ph1la-
delphia with two negro women. In this
city with a negro man, on Hoboken ferry
boat, in Portsmouth, England; in Lynn,
Mass: Mechanicsville, N. Y. and in San
Antonio. Tex. None of these clues came
to anything.
There was great excitement fortnight
ago when a lawyer who said his name was
Howard called DR.. Marvin from Erie. Pa.
and announced that he had been retained
by the abductors of the child to arrange
for his safe return provided the criminals
could be guaranteed immunity from punish
ment. A child which the lawyer said was
Horace spoke to the father over the tele-
phone. but the sound was too 1ndistinct
for DR.. Marvin to recognize the voice. Off
Gals in Erie found the house where the
boy was said to be and raided 1t. but
found no one, and shocked the wife of
the owner that she became seriously ILL.,
This clue also came to nothing.
Adversely has followed DR.. Marvin per-
sistently One misfortune has trailed close
ly upon the heels of another. finally reach
ing the climax in the kidnapping of his son.
Forty years ago DR.. Marvin, young
medical graduate. left Chicago to begin
career of promise. He accumulated in
few years a fortune amounting to almost
800, 900 in the lumber forests OF Wiscon-
sin. Scarcely had be begun to enjoy It
when he was robbed of it by grafters. Dis
appointed, but not disheartened, DR.. Mar
vim decided to leave the lumber regions and
begin his practice of medicine IN western
Iowa
Went to Sioux City.
He went to Sioux City in 1871 in the days
when it was little more than Missouri
river trading post, and he started on his
ministry to the sick that for thirty-six
years keut him constantly at the bedsides
of young and old alike.
BY selling a piece of property for $50, 900
and by several other deals DR.. Marvin
again felt that he might take life easier.
enjoying some of the luxuries as he went
along, and became worth at least $4,000.
Again the prosperity was but temporary.
The boom that had made city spring up
almost mraculously burst as a bubble.
Values deprecated, and of the $4,000
scarcely anything, was left In the midst
of his financial trouble his wife was taken
ill, and after years of intermitten i'll health
died.
A few years later he married again, this
time a woman much younge: than himself.
who also was a graduate of medical col
lege Three months ago. at the birth of
her baby, she, too. died.
So disheartened was DR.. Marvin at the
death Of his wife and so broken in health
from the long, hard practice of his profess
sion through all kinds of weather that he
decided to retire on the Delaware farm,
where he had been but two days when the
child was kidnapped.