Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-11-10
A YOUNG ROY IN HOLLAND
STOLEN AND THEN KILLED
TO PREFENT DISCOVERY

] a OCA u BU1 IN HOLLIAI
STOLEN AND THEN KILLED
TO PREVENT DlSCOPERY
A special dispatch from Londo
says;
The particulars of u most atrociou
crime, committed short time age
arc published In the English paper,
1t has a special interest for those VIII
have made the Charley Ross case
study, as the confession OF the murder
made a few days ago, shows that il
this as in the American case the oil
ject Of the criminals was to obtain
large amount Of money as ransom.
William Maranus de Jongh, clorl
to the Minister of the Colonies at tn
Hague, coniesses to numbering schoo
boy named Marius Bogaardt, son of
former Secretary General, now livinJ
retired life. The murderer laid hi
plans very cunningly, and before sc
curing the boy, had written letter I,
the father asking for 10000 guilders
or $50, 600, for tho surrender Of his son
but how and where the ransom was t
be paid was not clear, though, it is sup
posed Dc Jongh had accomplices. Tit
confession of how the murder was com
mitted was told by the prisoner to BIZ
sister, TO whom he was devotedly at
tached. De Jongh wept bitterly Will,
giving the following account of th'
motivesand circumstances under which
the murder took place;
He said that on September %, be
fore he committed tho crime aud be
fore he had even possession OF the boy
he wrote the letter referred to, de
manding the ransom on certain date
The letter was written in the Cafe st
Hubert, from which he went to Will
Jams Park, where MIR. Bogaardt re.
sided 1t was two o'clock in the al
ternoon. Mrs Bogaardt had just left
the house and driven in her carriage
to Schcvingen. De Jongn thereupon
went to the Rhenish railway station
and, having directed a letter, put il
into the postoliico letter box at the
station. lie then took cab, but as
the cabman was asleep when De Jongh
entered the vehicle he did not notice
his face. De Jongh drove to the school
and asked for young Marius Bogaardt,
afine looking boy OF thirteen years OF
age.
ADO you know mop he asked OF
the boy.
"To be sure" the latter replied, 81
have often met you in the park"
"Now, my boy, your mamma asked
mo to fetch you from school" said De
Jongh,
"Did she not, then, go to Sehoven,
gen p replied the lad.
"Yes, replied De Jongh, seeing that
the boy knew his mothers intentions,
"but she tol nc she would, on her re.
turn, wait for us at Il peasants house
on the downs near the town, The
boy then fetched bis school articles,
asked permission to leave school and
accompanied De Jongh in cab.
When they arrived on the downs
the murderer sought q quiet place,
whore he threw the boy on the ground,
bound his hands and feet with cord
which he had bought that morning.
"Romain there" he said to Marius,
"ull / return with tho money | have
demanded from your father Stop
your crying it you do not want to be
killed" lie covered Tho youth with
his coat and intended to 60, but the
boy cried so loudly that he returned.
Fancying he heard footsteps, De Jongh
took his sword out OF his walking.
stick and killed the child, stabbing him
seven times in the breast In very
agitaled state Of mind the inhuman
rutlian fed to Schevingen, washed his
hands at the sea shore and returned
to the Hague, after having thrown
away his sword stick in little chan.
mel by the roadside. De Jongh was
arrested on the downs, whittier he re.
turned carly the following morning
but after being confronted with the
coachman and other witnesses he was
liberated. He was arrested afterwards
on his own confession
After his avowal OF his crime, his
sister asked him what motives he had
for the horrible deed He answered: {:
al saw our father die in poverty.
As for myself | could not make my
way in India, but ! had a place IN the
same Office where father worked, with
no better prospects than he had,
What would be my mothers lot and
yours | wished to assure to her o
comfortable old age, and when | heard
from family who are acquainted with
his circumstances that Mr.. Bogaardt
was a very rich man, ] was seized with
a desire to constrain him to give me
money by stealing away his only son.
| did not intend to kill the child ex.
cept in case he should possibly become
my accusor. My ouly motive was my
wish for money. Nobody assisted me
either before or at the murder"
The accused maintains that he is
the sole delinquent. He will appear
at the end of this month before the
criminal court Musqueter, the ser.
geant who discovered the murder, re-
ceves daily a number of letters of
thanks. The case has created an un.
parallcled excitement in Holland.