Jamestown alert., 1880-11-09
A TERRIBLE CRIME.

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A TERRIBLE CRIME.
A Tragedy Which Possesses All the
Elements but None Of the Mystery
OF the Charley Ross Case.
lFrom the London Times.l
Particulars of an atrocious crime,
committed short time ago. and pub
llshed in the English papers, has espe-
clal interest to those who made the Char
icy koss 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 large amount
OF money as ransom.
William Marianus DeJongh, clerk to
the Minister Of Colonies at The Hague,
contesses to numbering schoolboy, Ma
rus Bogaarat, son Of former Secretary
General, now living 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, 1000, for the surrender of
his son, but how and where the ransom
was to be paid was not clear, though it 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 possess
sion of the boy, he wrote the letter re-
terred to, demanding the ransom on
certain date The letter was written
in the Cafe st. Hubert, from where he
went to Williams Park, where Mr.. Bo-
gaarat resided. It was o'clock in the
afternoon, and Mrs. Bogaarat had just
left her house and driven to Schevingen
DeJongh went to the Rheinish railway
station, and, having directed the letter,
he put it into the postoffice 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, fne-looking boy, 13 years
of age.
"Do you know me ?" he asked of the
boy:
'To be sure" the latter replied; "I
have often met you in the park"
" Now, your mamma wishes me to
fetch you from school," said DeJongh.
"Did she not, then, go to Scheyin-
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 on
the Downs near the town."
The boy then fetched his school arti-
cles, asked permission to leave school,
and accompanied DeJongh in cab.
When they arrived On the Downs,
the murderer sought a 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.
"till return with the money I 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 he
heard footsteps. DeJongh took his
sword out Of his walking-stick, and
killed the child, stabbing him seven
times in the breast.
In very agitated state of mind, the
human fend fled to Schevingen, washed
his hands at the sea shore, and returned
to the Hague, after having thrown away
the 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 the avowal of the
crime, his sister asked what motives he
had for the horrible deed. ct saw our
father die in poverty. As for myself, I
could make my way in India, but I 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? I wished to secure to
her comfortable old age, and, when I
heard, FROM a family who are acquainted
with his circumstances, that Mr.. Bo-
gaa1at was very rich man, was seized
with desire to constrain him to give me
money by stealing away his only son.
7 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 IN unparalleled
excitement in Holland.