The Washington times., 1907-05-05
MARVIN BOY IS FOUND DEAD
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last seen. To have reached it. the
little lad. who never walked 200 yards
without sitting down to rest, would
have been obliged to walk across
| rough ground in the face of an icy
wind. cross a deep ditch, which is difh-
cult for a grown person to cross, climb
through two close barb wire fences. and
| then have lain down 20 die in 4 spo;
where at the time the ground was either
dry or covered with ice over not more
than one inch of water.
But the condition of the boys body
points above all to the absolute conchI-
sion that he has not been dead more
than two weeks. The body is in an ex-
ceIlent state OF preservation, an impos-
sibility had he died two months ago. in
view Of the continuous warm weather
when the thermometer registered 80 de-
grees for three successive days over ono
month ago.
Sheriff Believes Murder Theory.
The sheriff who took charge of the
BODY when it was found refused 10 per-
nit any examination of the body this
afternoon, but expressed himself as con-
WINGED that the child had been murdered
in some manner and his body brought
back TO the farm.
Tomorrow Coroner Joseph Galloway
will hold an inquest and twelve of the
leading citizens of Dover have been
summoned to act as jurors, and they
declare that there will he no whitewash-
ing % the case. Two arrests are already
being discussed In connection with the
case, but the authorities, after a con-
sultation this evening, decided not 10 act
until after the inquest. There are many
mysteries to be probed before the full
horror of the little boys death is likely
to be entirely made plain.
The body when discovered today was
lying so plainly in view that IT could
scarcely be overlooked by a person 100
yards distant in any direction. The
first work Of the detectives is now being
devoted TO discovering the identity OF
the man who is supposed to have taken
the body OF the child from some hiding
place in the dead of night and thrown
it upon the spot where he felt certain
it would be quickly discovered.
Father Carried Body to Shed.
The father of the hoy carried the little
body from the shallow pool 10 a shed,
where "A sheet was thrown over the
child. He was amazed beyond words at
the finding OF the child in a spot which
had been 50 completely searched and
where he had been working the day
before.
MY worst fears have been realized, a"
said DR.. Marvin, the heart-broken faith
eT. The finding OF my poor little boy
under these circumstances confirms all
that I have believed concerning his fate
from the very beginning. Ny boy was
murdered. He most certainly bad not
been in the place where he was found
but a very short time
Professional kidnapers never took my
child, but some one took him. 1t was
an amateur. a degenerate, or man OF
weak mentality. who. believing that
had more money than I have, decided
in almost a moment upon his act. be-
lieve that HIS being found as he was
today is the result OF the great fear
aroused in the mind OF this man, or IN
the minds OF those close TO him, that
has prompted them to bring my boz
and deposit his little body right on my
farm, where we would find him.
Saw Nothing There Saturday.
THAT any corpse could not have come
there in any natural way is quite evil
dent. Chubby never wandered TO thai
| place alone. bundled up in his winter
clothing. Why. myself worked Within
rod of the place few days ago. and
again on Saturday. and saw nothing
and yet directly after Mr.. PIeasontor
ran across my little fellows body We
| purposely tried the experiment OF COINS
to a distance in different directions, and
no matter where we stood the body
could be seen and prominently FOR al
least 800 yards. The tops Of the reeds
all about gave good evidence that they
had formed part OF the territory burned
over by my neighbors and by the detec-
tives and the little fellows clothing con-
tanned not the slightest mark of scorch-
ing.
mo one who was not here during the
early days Of the awful mystery which
has ended so sadly for me and mine car
possibly understand with what thorough
ness that marsh was gone over and
searched. My neighbOrs 10 the number
of half a hundred In a human chain
hand-in-hand went over the whole OF Il
and body of a puppy could not have
escaped their notice let alone that Of g
four-year-old child
Fourth Anniversary of Birth.
DIT. Marvin had to stop to get control
Of himself at this point, and ne tearfully
recalled that today was the fourth an
r.iversary OF his favorite chlld's birth.
81 Will never be satisfied" he went on
after a pause. that my boy died a
natural death. There is nothing in the
appearance Of my boys body 70 indi-
cate that he has been dead anything Ike
the sixty-one days that have elapsed
since he disappeared To me II Is plain
that Chubby's death was not due tC
anything but foul act, and II the
coroner's Jury agrees with me, believe
/ can still hope that the vengeance OF