The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-11-18
A TERRIBLE CRIME.
A Tragedy which Possesses All tho
Elements but None of che Mystery
OF tho Charley Ross Case.

OF the Charley Ross Case.
tFrom the London Timesl
PARTICULARS of an atroclous crime,
committed short time ago, and pub
hshed In the English papers, has espe-
cial 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 large amount
OF money as ransom.
William Marianus DeJongh, clerk to
the Minister of Colonies at The Hague,
confesses to numbering schoolboy, Ma
rius Bogaarat, son of former Secretary
General, now living a retired life. The
murderer laid his plans cunningly, and,
before securing the boy, had written q
letter to the father, asking for $4,000
guilders, or $50, 900, 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 posses
sion of the boy, he wrote the letter re-
ferred to, demanding the ransom on
o certain date. The letter was written
in the Cafe st. Hubert, from where he
went to Williams Park, where Mr.. Bo-
gaarat resided. 1t 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 cab,
but, as the cabman was asleep when
DeJongh entered the vehicle, he did not
notice his face. DeJengh drove to
the school, and asked for young Marcus
Bogaarat, fine-looking boy, IL years
of age.
"Do you know me ?" he asked of the
"To be sure," the latter replied; 81
have often met you in the park.
Now, your mamma wishes me to
fetch you from school" said DeJongh.
"Did she not, then, 60 to Schevin-
gem" 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 a 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 q quiet place
where he threw the boy on the ground
and bound his hands and feet with 6
cord bought that morning.
"Remain here" he said to Marcus
"till I return with the money have de
manded from your father. Stop you
CRYING if you do not want to be killed.
He covered the youth with his coat
and intended to go, but the boy cried Sc
loudly that he returned, fancying h,
heard footsteps. DeJongh took hi
sword out of his walking-stick, ant
, killed the child, stabbing him sever
times in the breast.
In very agitated state of mind, tn
human fend fled to Schevingen, WASHED
his hands at the sea shore, and returned
to the Hague, after having thrown ava,
the sword-stick in little channel b,
! the roadside. De Jongh was arrested
= on the Downs, whittier he returne,
early the following morning. Int. afte
: being confronted with the coachma1
= and other witnesses, was liberated. H
:, was arrested afterward on his own con
fession, and. after the avowal of tn
. crime, his sister asked what motives h
. had for the horrible deed. "I saw on
> father die in poverty. AS for myself,
could make my way in India, but ha
I place in the same Office where fathe
. worked, with no better prospects tina
- he had. What would be my mother
!, y lot and yours2 I wished to secure t
= her comfortable old age, and, when
y heard, from family who are acquainte
>. with his circumstances, that Mr.. Be
gaal at was very rich man, was seize
: with desire to constrain him to give N
~ money by stealing away his only sol
J I did not intend to kill the child, exceI
! in case he should possibly become m
! accuser. My only motive was my wis
u u for money. Nobody assisted me at I'll
= time or at the murder"
The case has created an unparallele
excitement in Holland.