Connecticut western news., 1880-10-20
KIDNAPPING AND MURDER.
A Young Boy in Holland Stolen and Then Killed to Prevent
 Discovery.

and Then h1lLel GO fFcVenG
 Discovery.
 The particulars of @ most atrocious crime which tock place in Holland are now published. It has an especial in- terest for those who have made the Charley Ross case study, as the con- fession of murder, made few days ago, 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 de Jongh, clerk to the Minister of the Colonies at the Hague, confesses to murdering school boy named Marius Bogaardt, son of a former Secretary General, now living a retired life. The murderer laid his plans very cunningly, and before se- curing the boy had written letter, to the father asking for 5000 grilders, or $30, 1000, for the surrender of ,,his son, but how and where the ransom was to be paid was not clear, though it is SUD- posed De Jongh had accomplices. The | confession of how the murder was com mitted was told by the prisoner to his sister, to whom he was devotedly att tached. De Jongh wept bitterly while giving the following account of the mo- tives and circumstances under which the murder took place:
 He said that on September 23, before he committed the crime and before he had even possession of the boy, he wrote the letter referred to-, demanding the ransom on certain date. The letter was written in the Cafe St. Hubert, from which he went to Williams Park, where MT. Bogaardt resided. It was two o'clock in the afternoon. Mrs. Bo- gaardt has just left her house and driven in her carriage to Schevingen. De Jongh thereupon went to the Rhenish railway station, and, having directed the letter, put it into the post office box at the station. He 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, fine looking boy, thirteen 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, my boy, your mamma asked me to fetch you from school" said De Jongh.
 tDid she not, then, go to Schevin- gen ?" inquired the lad.
 "Yes," replied De Jongh, seeing that the boy knew of his mothe CTS 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 articles, asked permission to leave school and accom- panied De Jongh in cab.
 When they arrived on the downs the murderer sought quiet place, where he threw the boy on the ground, bound his hands and feet with cord, which he had bought thatmorning. "Remain here, ' he said to Marius, "till I return with the money I have demanded 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 re- turned. Fancying he heard footsteps, De Jongh took his sword out of his walking stick and killed the child, stab. bing him seven times in the breast. In l @ very agitated state of mind the inhu. man ruffian fled to Sehevingen, washed his hands at the sea shore and returned to the Hague, after having thrown away his sword-stick in little channel by the roadside. De Jongh was arrested or the downs, whither he returned early the following morning; but after being confronted with the coachman and other witnesses he was liberated. He was ar rested afterward on his own confession
 After his avowal of the crime his sistel asked him what motives he had for thu horrible deed. He answered:
 "I saw our father die in poverty. A for myself I could not make my way il India, but had a place in the same offic' where father worked, with no bette; prospects than he had. What would b' my mothers lot and yours? I wished ' to assure to her comfortable old age and when I heard from family who ar acquainted with his circumstances tha MT. Bogaardt was 0 very rich man, was seized with desire to constrain hin to give me money by stealing away hi only son. I did not intend to kill tn child, except in case he should possibl, become my accuser. My only motiv was my wish formoney. Nobody assiste' 5 me either before or at the murder" The accused maintains that he is tn sole delinquent. He will appear at tn end of this month before the Crimina Court. Musqueter, the sergeant wh l discovered the murder, receives daily
 number of letters of thanks. The cas x has created an unparalleled excitemen in Holland.
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