The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05
Lying in Marsh Half Mile from
 Fathers Home
FOUL PLAY NOT INDICATED
Disappearance of Young Son of Dr.. Marvin Has BaffIed Solution for Two Months-Found By
 Farmer Figuring In Case.

Marvin, son of pr. H. N. Marvin, whose disappearance had baffied solution since March 4, was found about half mile from the Marvin farm today by Ollie Pleasonton, a farmer.
 PIeasonton, who lives on a farm ad- joining Marvins, came upon the child S body while out gunning. The child lay face downward in patch of grass. There was no mark on the body indicating foul play, and it was in a good state of pre- servation.
 Pleasonton says he saw the body at a distance of twenty feet. Yesterday sev- eral gunners passed over this land but none saw the body, if it was there then. The spot where the body was found is midway between the Marvin home and the Delaware river.
 When pleasonton came upon the body he found the clothing intact. His woolen reefer was buttoned up about the body and not an article of clothing which he had on when he disappeared was missing. His knit cap was pulled over his face and his mittens were on his hands.
 Dr. Marvin says he searched over the same marsh nearly every day since the disappearance and with detectives burned the grass off the place four weeks ago, but he saw no signs of the body.
 The theory that the child had been re- gently placed where he was found is sup ported by the fact that Dr. Marvin, as well as Detective Matthew stood on the spot when they burned the grass from it.. Further than this the marsh has been trampled over time and time again within the past week by neighbors and no sign of the child was seen.
 Dr. Marvin went on a run to the place described by Pleasonton and gently picked up the little form, pulling the cap from the face to make sure it was his boy. Being satisfied that 1t was his son the doctor wrapped the remains in a sheet and carried them to the house where he notified the family. pr. Marvin is con vinced that his son met with foul play. The doctor would not allow an exanlna- tion to be made by any one until the coroner and a physician had made a full Investigation.
 Detectives who have been on the case are inclined to the belief that the boy wandered into the marshes g.and being overcome by the cold fell exllausted where the body was found.
 Pleasonton, who discovered the body has figured that he had seen the two strange men who appeared there inquring about the topography of the country three days before the disappearance.
 A later investigation of the body showed the body was somewhat bloated, which tends to the belief that the boy wandered on the marsh and was drowned. The coroner will begin his investigation to- morrow.
 
 dence. and on January 1, 1906, he was placed under arrest. Orchards trunk re- vealed that evidence and then a score of witnesses located him at various times lurking about the Steunenberg home with Jack Simpkins, member of the executive board of the Western Federation, who has not been caught watching the Steunen- berg home with field glasses and mak- ing inquiries as to Steunenberg's move ments. At this juncture there occurred a circumstance to which great significance has always been attached. It is said that Orchard, when asked at his pre- liminary examination If he wanted coun- sel, said that if news of his arrest was published counsel would promptly be on the ground to advise him.
 Real Name Is Orchard.
 Subsequently Hogan was identified by the Colorado police as Harry Or chard, wanted on the charge of blow ing up the Independence depot and upon this Identification he admitted that Hogan was an assumed name that his real name was Harry Orchard.
 In the meanwhile the case had passed into the hands of the Pinkerton detectives, and James McPartland, fla nous for his part in the Molly Mcclure affair, assumed charge. McPartland se- cured what Is claimed to be free con- fession from Orchard, who had been removed from the jail at Caldwell to the penitentiary in this city for safe keeping, as feeling ran high against him in Caldwell. Orchards confession has never fully been made public, but 1t Is known that it contains an alleged admission of participation in nearly thirty murders, and that Orchard charged Haywood, Mover and Petit bone with having induced him to com init the crimes, and having paid him In money an agreed sum for each. It is alleged that Orchards confession has been amply confirmed; that he will go upon the stand and freely repeat it., with the full knowledge that when his turn comes for trial he will be con- victed and executed. It is said Orchard only desires to make a clean breast of his past, and he is quoted as say ing that he desires to clear the whole thing up before I am executed
 It is stated the prosecutors believe they can corroborate the confession in all it's most important aspects. It is alleged that Pettibone was an expert on explosives and that he. Mover and Haywood jointly plotted the crimes
 Leaders Arrested.
 On February IT of last year Hay wood, Mover and Pettibone were ar rested in Colorado and brought to Ida ho. The arrest was made by Idaho or ficials at the time the murder was com mitted. The governor of Colorado hon ored the requisition of the governor of Idaho, but there was no judicial proceeding in Colorado, circumstance that led up to a long and bitter con- test.
 The affidavit charging that the men were in the state of Idaho at the time of the murder being admittedly false in fact, though true as a compliance with the letter and spirit of the statute according to the officers of the state, gave rise to widespread discussion as to the propriety of the action of the two states involved. Then throughout the country went the cry that the pris- oners had been Kidnapped in defiance of all constitutional rights. This phase of the question was later tested by means of writs of habeas corpus and an appeal to the supreme court of the United States, the result being vic- tory for Idaho.
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