Evening journal., 1907-05-06

length Of another mile. north and
south.
If by any chance little Horace wan
dered in the face Of the zero WINDS
of March over the frozen ground,
climbing down and up the banks OF
the deep bitches and through barbed
wire fences would have certainly sag
ged his clothing in a dozen places. He
walked from the stack yard due north
east, and not toward the bay. which
lies east by southeast. The spot where
he was found is about aD eighth Of a
mile nearer the bay than the stack
yard. The waters of the bav have no
communication with the isolated pool
of death.
STORY AND DISCOVERY
Oliver Pleasanton. a young farmer,
who has been a persistent searcher
for the boy, discovered the body early
Saturday afternoon and within an hour
the word had been flashed throughout
the entire countryside and hundreds Of
persons started at once by rail and
team for the Marvin residence. o.
interest throughout the country, the
case which has baffled detectives. has
had the people of this part of the
country keyed to a high pitch, and to-
days development stirred them
quickly.
Pleasanton, curiously enough, was
not crossing the marsh for the pur-
pose of looking for the body He had
gun over his shoulder and was aim
ing for a stretch Of woodland. But
with his eyes. as always, on the
ground. he came suddenly upon the
body, lying face downward, the face
partly buried in water. The lad was
dressed precisely as he was when he
left his home two months ago-two
months to a minute, almost HIS nit
tens were buttoned up tightly, his
tiny wooden REFER was buttoned Sc
curely and his knit cap was pulled
down over his face.
Stunned by his discovery and struck
by the theory which then flashed
through his mind. that the body had
been placed there during the last few
days. Pleasanton rushed to the Marvin
house. SO breathless and excited was
he when he reached there that he
could not speak DR.. Marvin realized
naturally that there was something
wrong and presently the young man
recovered sufficiently to say, Horace
body. In the marsh
"WAS CARRIED HERE"
Accustomed to shocks and disap-
pointments, DR.. Marvin made no reply
but cody went into the house, put on
his coat and hat and then followed
| Pleasanton, on a brisk run to tho
marsh. His first exclamation on
reaching there and seeing the BODY OF
his son lying in the precise spot where
he had stood only the cav before. was:
He has been carried herew
There was no doubt C. the identity
Of the body. One look was sufficient;
but the grief stricken father turned
up the face of the four-year-old sor
and burst into tears. There was ne
discoloration, and to all appearances
/ the child had been dead but a shOrl
time
Neighbors and other persons quickly
gathered. and before the body was
placed in a sheet and carried to the
house, persons were struggling from
/ all directions to the place where IN,
body was found.
From practically every mouth came
| the utterance that the boy had beer
| hidden by some one who had kid
mapped him and murdered him. Wher
| the stories of the thorough search OF
the marsh were told by farmers ant
detectives, there was no one in the
big throng doubted the kidnapping
! murder theory. But when an attemp
was made to speculate as to wh'
could have done such a thing withou
having left some trace Of his move
ments. the theorists were ballSed. In
cidents which occurred several weeks
back we're recalled and dovetailed int
the theory, but they all lead to moth
ing.
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