Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-18
Father Of Kidnoped Boy Has
Lost Two Wives and Three
Fortunes
THIRD EXPENDED in SEARCH
Already He.rt-sroksn and Nerve
racked, Or. Marvin is Now Tor.,'red
BY the Fear That He Will Me-
I Find His Boy, And May Never Even
Know His Fate.
Special to Times-Republican..

llm0S.HSDuOlCan,
Sioux City, April 1s.-It would seem
that Nemesis had never been more re-
terrible success than that revealed in
the tragic case of DR.. Horace N. Mar
win, who has the sympathy of the en-
tire nation in his fruitless search for
his kidnapped baby boy. The relentless
fates which have SO grievously
scourged DR.. Marvin thru the mysterious
theft OF his little son, have schooled
him for the appalling climax by the
following hard discipline:
Robbed him Of fortune Of $780,
900 made by hardship and toll in the
Wisconsin forests:
Stole from his second competence
Of like sum, together with q ,beauti-
full home, where he hoped to spend his
remaining years;
Took from him the wife who had
battled against adversely and shared
his prosperity with him;
S Gave him q second and youthful
and lovely helpmeet. only to rend. his
heart again when her life was forfeited
with that of her new born babe;
Enticed him away from the warm
friends OF generation to . quiet Del
>aware retreat where. with his two
young sons, ne could enjoy closing
life, only to apply the acme of tor
ture-the incomprehensible disappear
ance Of his beloved boy who bore his
own name.
And then, az If to produce the very
refinement of anguish, traducers ap-
pear to say that perhaps the doctor or
some member Of his family could ia
Thorn. IL they would. the depths of the
mystery which has ELECTED the SYM
pathy Of nation. His enduring quail
titles have astounded the doting parents
of the country who see their own little
ones near them and wonder what they
would do if-the very thought Is unen-
durable. The horror increases with the
natural fact that the child whose life
was enmeshed with the heartstrings
Of the father, may never be found. This
is q spectre to haunt him to the grave.
Marvin's Three Fortunes.
DR. Horace N. Marvin made the first
OF his three fortunes in the lumber dis
tnicts of Wisconsin where he went after
the war in which he fought, and after
graduating In medicine in Chicago and
marrying Hannah Fletcher in 1868. His
bride went with him into the wilds. His
gains had reached 100000 when adj
verse conditions and inability to market
his lumber ruined him financially. He
decided then to practice medicine and
came to Sioux City for that purpose In
1871. His practice grew to large pro-
portions and in the balmy, muchroom
days OF Sioux City's growth the doctor
made money in real estate. He sold
one business lot for $4,000 profit This
and more he expended for the hand
some residence at Seventh and Pearl
streets, which he built in the happy
anticipation of being its permanent oc-
cupant. But the reverses which smote
so many Sioux City citizens carried
away DR.. Marvin's second fortune of
100000 and he lost his cherished home.
He then moved to a modest cottage
and began his struggle anew. 1t was
in the midst Of these distressing days
that the first Mrs. Marvin died.
A third competence was amassed by
successful speculation in South Dakota
land. But when the hopeful outlook
was blackened by the sudden death of
his second wife-the mother of the
stolen child-the doctor decided to seek
new scenes and relief from the strain
and demands Of q large practice, and
moved away. The high esteem In which
he was held here was attested by the
banquet given him by his professional.
associates, as farewell.
inspired by the hope that his bur-
Aens would now be lightened he took
his little family to his farm near Dover,
Del, having plans not only for himself
but for old friends who had been in
terested in his stories of cheap land and
possibilities Of cultivating fruit.
The second day there, his baby boy
was kidnapped. He is now expanding
every energy and needed dollar in fran
tic search for his lost boy, and gone
are his roseate dreams of quiet and
repose.