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Show ' 2 f 1 f " X- .. -1 . 4 V W W . . . . 4 - . ' 1 gap E0EACE H. MA&VTir, 7B KIDNAPED B07 FOE WHOM AMERICA I AEITEUSOPE ARE SEARCHDTG. ' The Marvin boy was stolen from bis home near Dover. Del, on March 11, and thousands of dollars are offered for his return to bis father, Horace N. Marvin, Sr.. The president of the United States, the governor of Delaware and other notables are aiding in the search for the boy and bis kidnapers. from arrest or any kind of investigation of the person claiming the money. Apart from this reward the authorities authori-ties of Delaware and the Pinkertons are hunting for the boy, and Gov. Lea has expressed: his willingness to have the State spend (10,000 to run down the kidnapers. The missing boy weighs about forty pounds, is three feet in neight, and has light hair and wide, staring blue eyes, lie has a round face and ruddy complexion com-plexion and a distinguishing scar over the right eyebrow. Letters forming a part of the endless chain by which the search for four-year-old Horace Marvin Is being prosecuted prose-cuted throughout the United States and Canada have reached Bait Lake City. Scores of the letters probably will be circulated in Utah by persons Interested In the lad's strange disappearance from his father's farm at Dover, DeL, early last month. 1 The boy's fatherv is Dr. Horace Marvin, Mar-vin, a physician who moved to Dover from Sioux City. While not extremely rich, Dr. Marvin is in very comfortable circumstances, and the most generally accepted theory of the Pinkertons and others investigating the boy's disappearance disap-pearance is that he was kidnaped for ransom. . Rose Standish. a cousin of the boy, was playing with him on a haystack the day he disappeared. She left him to go after an older brother, and was away for some minutes. The boy was not on the haystack when she returned, and although the search for him was taken ta-ken np immediately by Dr. Marvin and other members of the family, no trace of him could be found. Since then j elaborate plans for finding the boy have been evolved, but his disappearance remains re-mains a mystery. The endless chain of ; letters has been devised as a final means of tracing him. A reward of 11000 has been offered for the return of the boy by agents of Dr. Marvin, who promises Immunity |