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Show I I i A four-year-OiJ bey I :tc 1 ti la Horace llarrln, Jr., j v:i Li I. . I froia Lis tone at rover, r 1., a vrcJ.z ao, was taken ia c?.-r;? .7 tie f.-Jt Lake police at tie Crrj-a tiort Line depot about 9:S0 la. t zl.x ' Captain of Police Burbidge received a telephone message from the Chief. of Police at Ogden stating that he had just received a wire from the Pinkertoo detective de-tective office in Chicago th,st the Marvin Mar-vin boy had come Vent with a womau in black, and that the train on which the woman and boy were traveling was due to arrive in Ogden last night. Chief Browning aoon found that the woman and boy had taken the Oregon 8hort Line for Salt Lake. "There is a reward of $27,000 for the boy," added the Chief of Ogden. A 'description of the boy followed. . When the train pulled into this city at 9:30 o'clock it was met by Capt. Burbidge, Detectives Shannon and Wilson, Wil-son, and Officers Johnston, Bipley, Cur-ren, Cur-ren, Riley, Harris and Seager. A woman in black was seen to rash from the sleeper, leaving a child in the car. She was stopped by Ripley, while Shannon went in the car and secured ' the sleeping cbtld, who tallied with the description, furnished by the Ogden department. de-partment. ' v . . . - That $27,000 looked good to the officers. offi-cers. ' , , ' As the police were about to leave the station with the woman and rhild, a young man and woman walked up tq the group and' the man informed the policemen that the child was his son. The child, however, refused to recog- nize the man as his father, and both the man and woman were taken in charge by the officers and escorted to the sta-' tion. "The Woman in Black " explained to the police that she had come to Bait Lake from Chicago and that she' had met the child on the train and found that he was coming to Salt Lake alone. The conductor of the train had given her the boy's ticket and baggage check. The ehild had informed her that his papa was going to meet him at Salt Lake. When the train arrived in this city she had left the car to look after l.fr ln;- , pTre.Mir that the father of ); tK.l ' 0 .on the car and (Tft the boy. 'll it was all that she know ahput the aCair. The man five his name' as Bert T. Pettpe, a switchman employed by the Oregon fc.hort Line. He said that- the child was h son. and that the mother had died in St. John's hospital at Cheyenne, Chey-enne, Wyo., last June. After the death of the motherthe child had been taken to, Three Oaks, Mich., by his grandmother, wiih whom he had lived nnil a few days ago, when the father had sent money for his trip to Salt Lake. ' The boy lad been placed in charge of the conductor of the train, with instructions in-structions to see that he got to Salt Lake. The boy still refused to recognize recog-nize the man as his father. Pettee asked that his wife, the stepmother step-mother xt the child, be allowed to go to - his home and secure evidence in - the shape of telegrams and photos to prove his claim. lie explained that the child had not seen 'him for . several months, and therefore, did not recognize him. The wife, accompanied by a brother of Pettee, went to the home of Pettee and returned a short time later with the necessary evidence, consisting of a number num-ber of letters and a telegram from the grandmother in - Three Oaks notifying him that she had sent the 'boy to Salt Lake.. ' 1 Mrs. Pettee also brought a number of I photographs to -the station. They were shown to the boy, who at once recognized recog-nized one of them as being that of his mamma, another he recognized as being that of his uncle, and a third one as be-in? be-in? that of his mother and aunt. The last picture was shown to the child and he was asked who it was. Without a moment 's hesitation he replied, re-plied, "My papa." Turning to Pettee, he said: "And yon are my papa; I know you; now." ' . ; " The identity was complete, and the police released all the parties with the explanation that it was all a case of mistaken identity Horace Marvin, the boy whom the officers thought, they eaptured, was stolen from his home in Dover, Del., several days ago. A few days after the kidnaping the father, a prominent physician phy-sician of that city, received the following fol-lowing letter: "For $10,000 we will return your boy. Take the money to the entrance of Brandywine Springs park, Wilmington, Wilming-ton, Del., and there you will see a man with a red handkerchief about his neck. Hand the cash to him and pass., "Don't tell the police, for-if you do you will never see your boy alive. Others Oth-ers 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, Philadelphia, in the ladies' waiting-room. "(Signed) .THE VELVET HAND.'! .' A reward of $27,000 is offered for the return of little Horace Marvin. |