The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-15
MAKE HIM PROVE
RIGHT TO CHILD
Police Require Bert 7. Pattee to
Identify Himself and
His Son.

The mystery of the kidnapping of
Horace Marvin, jr.. 4 years old. from
the home of his father, DIR. Horace
Marvin, in Dover. Del, was almost
solved last night by the local police de-
partment, assisted by the Pinkerton
detective agency Of Chicago. The po-
lice here took from an Oregon Short
Line train last night a child whose de-
scription tailed I'm minute detail with
that of the Delaware child for whom
reward of $4,000 has been offered. 1t
was concIusively proven. however, by
Bert T. Pattee, a switchman for the
Oregon Short Line railway. that he was
the child's father, and that the sim
ilarity in descriptions of the two boys
was only a coincidence.
Shortly before o'clock Captain John
Burbidge of the local police depart
ment was informed by the Ogden DO
lice that they had just received q
communication from the Pinkerton
agency at Chicago, saying that con-
vincing evidence had been brought to
it's attention that a woman In black
was on her way from Chicago to Ogden
with the kidnapped child The descrip-
ton of the child as furnished by the
Pinkertons was:
Four years old; Eight hair: blue eyes;
worn brown Buster Brown suit: blue
overcoat with brass buttons; red cap
with gold anchor embroidered on il.
Demand on Father.
The KIDNAPPING of the Marvin boy has
interested almost everyone in Della
ware. Governor Preston Lee has taken
an active part in the search for the
boy. Not long ago the father received
the following letter:
For $4,000 we will return your boy.
Take the money to the entrance of
Brandywine Springs park. Whining
ton. Del, and there you will sec a man
with a red handkerchief about his
neck. Hand the cash to him and pass.
Don't tell the police. for il you do
you will never see your boy alive
Others will be around to watch you,
so don't try any funny business. If
you do as told you will find your boy
at the Broad street station, Philadel-
phia. in the ladies' waiting room
(SigneD THE VELVET HAND"
The Pinkerton agency was employed
and every effort was made to locate
the missing child. Finally the detec-
tives received information that the
boy was With well-dressed woman in
black en- route to Ogden. The Ogden
police were notified, only to find that
a woman had reached Ogden from the
the east last night. and that she and
the little boy had gone to Salt Lake
Immediately after receiving the mes
sage from Ogden. Captain Burbidge.
Detectives Shannon and Wilson. Pa
trOlmen Ripley. Harris. Curran, Carey.
Seager and others went to the Oregon
Short Line train which arrived from
Ogden shortly before 10 o'clock.
Descriptions Agree.
In the rear sleeper as the train came
in the officers saw a woman and a lit
tie child. The woman hurriedly left
the train as il came to stop, leaving
the child on the train She was dressed
i'm black. Things began to look inter-
esting. Pafrolman Ripley stopped the
woman. while Detectives Shannon and
Wilson looked after the child.
The boy was dressed in a brown
Buster Brown suit. had on a blue
oyercoat with brass buttons. and red
cap with a gold anchor embroidered
ON it. His hair was light and his eyes
blue Every detail tailed with the
Pinkerton description of the kidnapped
boy The officers could almost hear
the s27 900 iingling in their pockets
The woman in black said she had no
claim on the child When she left Chi