Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-05-09
FIND MARVIN BODY
CORPSE DISCOVERED IN MARSH
NEAR HOME.
REMAINS HIDDEN IN SWAMP
Long Grass Later Burned, But Cloth
ing of Child Shows No Evidence
of Fires Touch.

Dover. Del. May 5.-tying In q
marshy piece of land, the body Of
little Horace Marvin, son of Dr. II.
N. Marvin, formerly OF Sioux City.
Ia, whose mysterious disappearance
from the Meadow farm near Dover
has bafled solution since March 4.
was found about half mile from
the Marvin farm yesterday by ollio
Pleasanton, farmer, who lives adj
Joining Marvin's farm.
The child was lying face down.
ward in a patch of meadow grass.
There was not mark upon the little
boys body indicating foul play. 1t
was in a good state OF preservation.
suggesting that It had been frozen.
Pleasanton says that he saw the
body at a distance OF 200 feet. On
Friday several gupners passed over
this land, but none saw the body IL
1t was there then.
The body was found midway be.
tween the Marvin home and the
Delaware river.
When Ollie Pleasanton came upon
the child's body he found the cloth
Ing intact. His tiny wooden REFER
was buttoned up securely about the
body and not an article OF clothing
which he had on when he disappear
ed was missing. His knit cap was
pulled over his face, and HIS NIT
tens were on his hands.
DR.. Marvin says he searched over
the same marsh nearly every day
since the disappearance, and with
detectives, burned the grass OF the
place four weeks ago, but saw no
signs Of the body.
The theory that the child has been
recently placed where he was found
Is supported by the fact that DIR.
Marvin, as well as detectives. stood
on the spot when they burned the
tall sage grass from 1t. Further
than this the marsh has been tram
pied over time and again within the
past week by neighbors and no sign
OF the child was seen. DR.. Marvin
went on run to the place described
by the man and gently picked up the
little form, snatching the cap from
his face to make sure. Being salts.
hNt NhdS ~ noo sOb, AhV hoNNo'
wrapped the remains In sheet and
carried him to the house. where he
notified the family.
DR.. Marvin Is convinced that his
son met with foul play. Shortly after
the body was found, he said:
Though / am unable to examine
Horace closely until the coroner ar.
rives I am certain that he was muir.
dered, his body brought back and
put lying in the marshes to give the
impression that he wandered out
there and died. The clothing show.
ed no signs of having been burned
as would undoubtedly have been the
case had the body lain there when
the fire swept over the marsh"
The doctor would not allow an ex.
animation to be made by anyone
until the coroner and physician
had made a full and complete inves.
tigation.
Inasmuch as DR.. Marvin desires a
full and complete Investigation OF
the affair, Attorney General Tasting
and his deputy will see to the exam
ination Of the body and II foul play
Is shown will order an arrest II pos.
sible. Detectives who have been on
the case decline to believe that the
boy wandered into the marshes from
the farm on the day Of his disap.
pearance 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 moment Horace was lost, having
first reported that he had seen the
two strange men who appeared there
inquiring about the topography OF
the country three days before the
disappearance.
The recovery Of the body was re-
ported to Governor Lea In Whining.
ton, who directed state detectives to
make a rigid investigation into all
the circumstances.