The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-11-11
A TERRIBLE CRIME.
A Tragedy Which Possesses All tho
Elements but None Of the Mystery
OF the Charley Ross Case.

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Elements but None Of the Mystery
OF the Charley Ross Case.
lFrom tho London Times.l
Particulars of IN atrocious crime,
committed short time ago, and pub
lished in the English papers, has espe-
clal interest to those who made the Char
ley Ross case study. as the confession
OF the murderer shows that in this, as in
the American case, the object of the
criminals was to obtain q large amount
OF money as ransom.
William Marianus DeJongh, clerk to
the Minister of Colonies ct The Hague,
confesses to numbering schoolboy, Ma
RUS Bogaarat, son Of former Secretary
General, now living a retired life. The
murderer laid his plans cunningly, and,
before securing the boy, had written a
letter to the father, asking for $4,000
guilders, or $50, for the surrender Of
his son, but how and where the ransom
was to be paid was not clear, Thought is
supposed DeJongh had accomplices.
The confession of how the murder was
committed was told by the prisoner to
his sister, to whom he was devotedly at
tached. DeJongh wept bitterly while
giving an account Of his motives and the
circumstances under which the murder
took place.
On Sept. %, before he committed the
crime, and before he had even posses
sion of tho boy, he wrote the letter re-
ferred to, demanding the ransom on
certain date. The letter was written
i'll the Cafe St. Hubert, from where he
went to Williams Park, where Mr.. b.
gaarat resided. 1t was o'clock in the
afternoon, and Mrs. Bogaarat had just
LETT her house and driven to Schevingen.
DeJongh went to the Rheinish railway
station, and, having directed the letter,
he put it into the postotfice letter-box at
the station. He left and took a cab.
but, as the cabman was asleep when
DeJongh entered the vehicle, he did not
notice his face. DeJongh drove to
the school, and asked for young Marcus
Bogaarat, a tine-looking boy, 13 years
of age.
"Do you know me?" he asked of the
''To he sure" the latter replied; 81
have often met you in tho park. "
Now, your mamma wishes me to
fetch you from school," said DeJongh.
"Did she not, then, go to Schevin-
gen ?" inquired the lad.
EYES, replied DeJongh, seeing that
the boy knew his mothers intentions.
"but she told me she would, on her re.
turn, wait for us at PEASANTS house u,
the Downs near the town.
The boy then fetched his school art-
cles, asked permission to leave school.
and accompanied DeJongh in a cab.
When they arrived on the Downs,
the murderer sought quiet place,
where he threw the boy on the ground,
and bound his hands and feet with a
cord bought that morning.
"Remain here" he said to Marcus.
"ti]l I return with the money have de-
manded from your father. Stop your
crying if you do not want to be killed. "
He covered the youth with his coat.
and intended to go, but the boy cried so
loudly that he returned, fancying no
heard footsteps. DeJongh took his
sword out of his walking-stick. and
killed the child, stabbing him seven
times in tho breast.
In very agitated state of mind, the
human fiend fed to Schevingen, washed
his hands at the sea shore, and returned
to tho Hague, after having thrown away
tho sword-stick in little channel by
the roadside. De Jongh was arrested
on the Downs, whittier he returned
early the following morning, but, after
being confronted with the coachman
and other witnesses, was liberated. He
was arrested afterward on his own con-
fession, and. after tho avowal of the
crime, his sister asked what motives he
had for the horrible IT,: !. 1T saw our
father die in poverty. IS for myself, I
could make my way in india, but I had
Il place in the same oilico where father
worked, with no better prospects than
he had. What would DO my mothers
lot and yours? I wished to secure to
her comfortable old age, and, when I
heard, from a family who are acquainted
with his circumstances, that Mr.. b.
gaalat was very rich man, was seized
with desire to constrain him to give me
money by stealing away his onl " son.
I did not intend to kill the child, except
in case he should possibly become my
accuser. My only motive was my wish
for money. Nobody assisted me at the
time or at the murder"
The case has created an unparalleled
excitement in Holland.