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Show I THE MARVIN CASE. j j Since I lie day Charley Ross was stolen away j from his parents in Philadelphia thirty yenrs ago, j case of kidnaping has attracted so much atten- tioji or wrung the heart of the nation like the ease j of i ".e Marvin boy of Dover, I '!., who disappeared ! a itKUth ago. I very resource of the bereft father j he cxhnu.-lcd in ineffectual search, and the federal j ; rth critics were appealed to and lent their efforts j to find some trace of the boy, but all to no purpose. 1 Hope of liuding him ha been almost given up, its I ihe kidnapers, finding ihcy could not receive a ran-j ran-j snm for his safe return without the almost eor- tainty of capture, probably have added the crime i of murder to their record. J Of all the crimes which men commit for gain, j none can compare in atrociousness to that of stcal-I stcal-I iug children. The child thief cannot be human in J his character, nor can he have the loving instincts of any of ihe lower animals which protect their young from harm. lie must be a devil incarnate. The pain and sorrow caused by his crime is more keen than thai following a visitation from the grim reaper, and it is all so contrary to human instincts lhat tin? degeneracy into which the perpef ralor has fallen is beyond human ken. The chances of financial finan-cial gain are so uncertain, and the possibility of escape if ransom is received so filled with hazard that the wonder is anybody would attempt ihe crime. Commensurate punishment for kidnaping cannot can-not be dealt out by human courts. In some stales it is a capital offense, and if any crime merits such a penalty, surely this one does. The All-Wise God has provided a place where such sins may be punished, pun-ished, and the chastening goes on forever and ever. |