Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-05-10
Was NOT KIDNAPPED
BODY OF HORACE MARVIN
FOUND; LONG MISSING.
Body Found Face Downward and Half
Mile From Fathers Farm Near
Dover, DeI.-Had Formerly Lived in
Sioux City, Iowa-Father Thinks He
Was murdered.


Was murdered.
Dover, Del.-The body of little Ho-
race Marvin, who disappeared from
the farm of his father at Kittsham-
mock, near here March 4, was found
Saturday afternoon in a marsh in a
state of preservation. The spot where
the body was found is half mile east
of the farmhouse, toward the Della
" are river. Kittshammock Is between
seven and eight miles from here, and
from information brought here by
horseman it is learned that the clothes
upon the child are the same he wore
the day he disappeared The body was
| face downward.
The marsh was frozen over the day
the boy disappeared. There is theory
| that the boy was murdered and his
tody placed in the marsh, as the long
grass where the body was found was
burned and cleared four weeks ago.
1T is said the body lay under pile of
grass and that the clothing showed
no evidence of having been touched
by fire.
DR.. Marvin has given out the fol
lowing statement.
1.-THE terrible developments simply
confirm the theory to which l have
: held all along-that my boy was muir
dered. l think he was either the vic
Tim of q degenerate or kidnappers who
lost their nerve after they had secured
the child. I still believe that Detec
| tive Lore was on the right track wher
| he was interrupted by the action OF
the attorney general"
Clues which the detectives have
been following swiftly since the find
ing of the body point consistently to ?
man well known to the father of the
dead boy, and it is tho general belle
+ in Dover that the now famous Mar
: vim kidnapping mystery only
? in interest to the famous Charley Ros!
case-is near a solution.
a The body of the year old victim
! of one of the cruelest tragedies eve
S perpetrated in Delaware lies in room
] in the fathers house, water soaked
e and begrimed with marsh slime, thu
} physician-father having forbidden /
being touched until the coroner ant
j Attorney General Robert H. Richard
arrive tomorrow to hold the inquest
:, which is expected to show the method
n Ivy which the child's death wa
+ wrought. So far no announcement ha
S been made at DR.. Marvin's home othe
g than that the grief stricken father i
> confident that his child was the victiI
r of foul play. No examination has bee
4 made and It is not known whether tn
oh; e.fr oil or o1t
to death or drowned.
1t is impossible to say even on tn
word of those who saw the child
n body how long he had been dead. TIL
n remains were in so well a preserve
/. state as almost to have excluded tn
: possibility of the boys having bee
It killed on March 4. the date of his dis
Q appearance. On the other hand, the
L appeared in too advanced a stage @
decomposition for the murder to hav
C taken place as recently as two day
II ago.
!, There is much to make it appea
4 that the boy wandered away and fe
- exhausted into the pool. No marks c
= violence were found on the body. TIL
4 stomach was empty, and the child ma
either have been frozen or starved t
, death. Detectives are perplexed at tn
finding of the body near the Marvi
!, home and at a point which they ha
= walked over again and again.
n Sensation in Sioux City.
d Sioux City, Iowa, May 6.-The fine
ing Of the body of Horace Marvi
probably created a greater sensatio
in Sioux City than in any other place
al 1t was from here that DR.. Marvin wen
"a two weeks before his bereavemer
n after a continuous residence here {
a. more than 20 years. He was admire
by all, and the recent death of littl
" Horaces mother made the disappea
1T ance seem more pathetic. Whethe
v the boys body was. recently take
n back to the farm is being debate
IL everywhere.