The Washington herald., 1907-03-12
MARVIN GETS LETTER
Doctor Receives 0yertures
from Sons kidnapperS.
DEMAND $1,000 FOR CHILD
Say They Were Request
ed to Keep Communication secret.
Thorough search of Hay stack and
Swsmps on Bay Meadows 80 BE
Made by One Hundred Men.
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Wilmington. Del. March u.-Important
kilograms reached DR. Marvin tonight
and also special delivery letter. For
mer Sheriff Baker was consulted about
the letter. which appears to be the first
overture from the supposed kidnappers of
Horace \. Marvin jr., four-year-0ld son
Of the physician.
In the letter sum Was mentioned The
amount is said 10 be $1,000 The letter Is
reported 20 direct the doctor how 20 ge{
in touch wiki the abductors Of his chi,].
The letter bears Jersey City postmark
Authorities in Dover say they were re-
questcd 70 keep the news Of the letter
secret this being the request of the kid
nappers. Dr. Marvin. when seen. denied
in the most positive terms that he had
such letter.
To search Bay Meadows.
Twelve men have been hired TO move
the straw stack on the farm of Dr. n. \.
Marvin, at kits Hummock. to determine
once and for all whether or not the body
of the doctors missing boy, Horace n
Marvin, jr., is concealed within the straw
or under il. The stack is large one, and
it may take several days 10 turn it over
by the fcrkful.
Professional detectives who have en-
tered upon the quest for the boy, in ex-
pectation Of sharing the 5000 that it is
hoped the State Of Delaware will appTo-
pirate. to-day insisted upon searching the
home Of the Marvins. evidently thinking
the boy might be concealed there some
where. 1t is now planned to gather 100
men 10 look through the swamps and
the marsh grass all over the Bay
Meadows" farm.
Sohae Doubt About Reward.
Some hints of the psychic nature of the
| search for the Marvin boy as far as it
has been based on the spiritualistic reve-
lation Of the chiId's grandmother. Mrs.
Flora NJ. Thornton Swift. must have
reached Gov. Lea. for there has been
a mysterious delay in signing the 5000
bin. To-day when Secretary of State
CahaH was asked II Delaware would Of
fer any reward for the detection OF the
kidnappers, he answered: well, I hardly
think So"
So far Mrs Swift has had two of these
| revelations. First, she related that In
/ a dream that was not exactly like other
dreams, she had seen a fisherman. in tar
/ paulns. carry little Horace down to the
beach to put him on board a boat. I'm
mediately after this Dr.. Marvin suggested
/ to the detectives that they should work
! upon the theory that the boy had been
! secreted on a boat that afterward sailed
I up the Delaware.
Second SPirituaIistfc McssaEe.
! Next. two or three days later. Mrs.
/ Swift told State Detective Hawkins that
she had another spirtualistic manifesto
ton. She happened to have a pencil in
/ her hand and by some influence was i'm
PEELED to write that little Horace had
been carried by the kidnappers from
Philadelphia to Camden
! This message was acted upon at one,
/ by the MarYins. hawkins was told 10 go
at once TO Camden to search. lie was
too busy. so the detective then employed
/ by Dr. Marvin was told to search in
Camden.
Case Has Queer Phases,
! These unusual and puzzling phases OF
| the case have set the detectives to Won
dering If by any possibility there can be
something wrong with the Kidnapping 1t
has been noticed that although BAY
Meadows" is out of the range of telephone
and telegraph communication. visitors
who drove out there from Dover are
rarely, if ever. asked if there is any
news of the boy.
With rare courtesy. the family has
shown lberality in distributing photo
graphs and information, and all OF the
Marvins have posed for the newspaper
/ photographers over and over again, ex-
planning that il is by publicity only that
they can hope TO recover their lost boy
Mr.. Standish returned from New York
| tonight. He said that he had been hor-
| rified to read. while in that city, that
! members of the Marvin family might
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