The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-25
KIDNAPPED AND MURDERED.
4 Crime in Holland Resembling the Char
 ley Ross Case Here.
New York Sum

New 1ork sun.
 A crime resembling the Charley Ross
 case in Philadelphia has just been com
 mitted in the quiet capital of Holland
 On September g, at about 3 o'clock III l the afternoon, a handsome and well dressed young man called in carriage
 at the normal school of M. Bouscholte,
 on the Koningenne Gracht, at The
 Hague, and asked for boy of 13 years
 of age, named Marius Boogardt, for
 whom the stranger said, his parents had
 sent. The principal of the institution,
 seeing that the boy knew the visitor,
 permitted him to quit the school. The
 boy tosk his cap, and gladly availed
 himself of his teachers permission. On
 entering cab the lad inquired of his es- cort "whether" his mamma had not gone | to Schevingen." "Yes," replied the lat ter, perceiving that the boy was informed of lis mothers intended movements; "but we are to wait for her at certain | peasants house on the dunes which she will pass on her return" The woman, however, had changed her mind, and had remained at home.
 One hour later, school being over, and the boy not having put in an appearance, hls mother sent for him, when she learned that the boy had left with some one who claimed to have been detailed by her for the purpose of taking him home Alarmed by this revelation, and the lady at once set in motion the police, and active search was instituted. In the meantime letter arrived to the address of her husband and bearing The Hague postmark, which announced to the dis tressed family that the boy Marius had been kidnapped, but would be restored on payment of 75,000 fiorins i'll bank notes, if a female messenger was sent for him to spot not very clearly designat- ed The letter stated furthermore that the boy was held as prisoner and kept without food, and that he would be kill ed immediately if the police were in formed.
 On the morning of the 25th one of the rural constabulary found in a clearing on the road to Loosduinen the lifeless body of young Boogardt. The hands and feet were tied and his head lay on his school-bag. He had been strangled and had received seven stabs from a dagger, one of which was mortal. Be- side the body fay paper, on which was written: "The 75,000 florins were only pretext. It is vengeance want. All is not finished yet" Of the murderer
 
 there was no trace. On the afternoon of the same day the hackman who had driven the visitor to the school was dis covered, but he gave no information of any service toward establishing the identity of the ciimir al. He had scarce iy caught glimpse of him when at the gate city he had dismounted and pad the fare. The vessels in the harbor about to sail were stopped and searched, but nothing could be discovered about the man. Suspicion had been directed toward dismissed man servant of MT. Boogardt's, who, on leaving his situation, had been heard to use threatening lan- guage. A reward of 2,000 forins was offered for his apprehension, and, on the 27th, he was found and arrested in a house of bad repute at Amsterdam. This man, Hendrick Poulviquet, was taken to The Hague and confronted with the different persons who had seen him at the school and on the dunes with the boy on the day of the murder. These witnesses all declared that there was no resemblance between the prisoner and the criminal. Poulviquet was therefore discharged.