Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-10
Little Horacs Mervin'S Body
Is Found by a Farmer
DIED FROM EXHAUSTION
Clad Exactly as When He Disap-
peared--Litte Fellow Overcome
Within Half a Mile of Where He Was
Last Seen Alive on March q

Dover, Del, May 6.-The body of
Horace Marvin, Jr.. which was found
ON Saturday lying in a pool of water
less than half a mile from where he
was last seen playing on March 1. was
inferred Yesterday in BAY Meadow
Lawn" on the Marvin farm. All the lit
tie fellows playmates and fully 1000
neighborS joined the Marvin family in
mourning his death and attended the flu
neral services.
Prior TO the funeral ~ men. compos-
ing Coroner Calloway's jury. officially
identified the body and authorized the
performing Of an autopsy. The jury
was then discharged, to recOnvene at
the call Of the coroner.
There Is much to make it appear that
the boy for whom detectives searched
so long wandered away and fell eX-
hausted into the pool on the marshes
where his body was found. Doctors 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. The
stomach. which was removed by DR..
Robyn, was empty, and the child may
either hay- been frozen or starved to
death. The condition of the stomach
indicates. according to the physicians,
tEat the 10y suffered privation for at
least 40 hours prior to death.
Many are of the opinion that the boy
wandered around his fathers farm and
in his efforts to get back home over the
frozen marshes became exhausted and
fell into the pool, where he died from
exhaustion aud privation.
To have reached the spot where the
body was found the boy must have
walked across frozen and snow-cov-
cred fields N the face of a driving wind
and then climbed two high embank-
/ ments. besides crawling through a
/ barbed wire fence.
The body was found by Ollie Pleas
alton. a farmer Pleasanton. who lives
on a farm adjoining the Marvins, came
upon the child's body while out gun
riug. The child lay face downward
/ IN patch of meadow grass. There
was not mark upon the boys body
indicating foul play. 1t was in good
state of preservation. suggesting that
it had bner frozen
Pleasanton says he saw the body at a
distance oc 20 feet. When he came
close he found the clothing intact. The
child's wooden REFER was buttoned up
securely about the body and not an ar
ticle of clothing which he had on when
he disappeared was missing. His knit
cap was pulled over his face and his
mittens were on his hands.
DR.. Marvin went on a run to the
picked UP the little form. pulling his
cap from the face to make sure that II
was his boy. Being satisfied that II
was his son. the doctor wrapped the re
mains in a sheet and carried him to the
house. where he notified the family
Detectives who have been on the
case are inclined to the belief that the
boy wandered into the marshes from
the farm Oh the day of his disappear
ance and, being overcome by the cold
fell exhausted where the body was
found.
PleasantOn, who discovered the body
has figured IN the case since the time
Horace was lost He reported that ht
saw two strange men who inquired
about the topography of the country
three days before the boys disappear
aEce.
The recovery Of the body was re
ported to Governor Lea. who directed
state detectives to make rigid investi
~ tinn of ill the circum SfancaS