The Northern Guardian. — 1893-10-09 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

THE DUTCH MURDER MYSTERY.  A NEW CLUE SUGGESTED. -DE JONG IN THE LAKE DISTRICT.  AMSTRIIDAII, Saturday. There is good reason to believe that the Handeleblad was in error in stating that the Dutch authorities proposed to have recourse to lirpnotism in order to elicit from De Jong a con. fession regarding the whereabouts of the bodies of Miss Juett and Miss Schmidt. From inquiries made in the proper quarter, it appears that no such intention exists. .  The examination of Mr Juett by the examining magistrate led to no result whatever, nip new fact being elicited. Information has been communicated to the police, which, if it turn out to be correct, will throw a new and important light upon the movements of De Jong and the two ladies, Miss Juett and Miss Schmidt, who have so mysteriously disappeared, and may, perhaps, furnish a clue to the discovery of one of them. On the 2nd inst. the following telegram was sent from Keswick to the Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department, London "Dutch Mystery. De Jong and ladies were travelling Lake District August. If any importance attaches, communicate REDDICK, Keswick Hotel." Apparently this message did not receive that prompt attention which the writer expected, and he accordingly sent the following letter : Keswick Hotel, Keswick. 5/10/93. Dear Sir,—The Dutch Mystery.—On Monday the 2nd I wired you that De Jong was travelling in the lakes with two ladies in August. I thought his movements here maybe of importance, as I have never seen any reference to the fact whatever in the newspapers. I have traced him to a small hotel from larger ones, close to a wild moor. Up to August 10th he was travelling with two ladies, one of whom was very iIL I have copies of the signatures in the visitors' book—H. J. de Jong, Schonwenburg, Netherlands, in a bold hand, and S. M. de Jong, Samwenberg, Netherlands, Amsterdam, in a very small foreign hand with a big flowing of the S all round I the word. noticed that a letter reached Arnheim from Liverpool on August 15th, probably posted 12th, asking for information re Mrs de Jong, and on the 12th De Jong goes to Maidenhead and bemoans the loss of his wife who has eloped. Is it possible that Miss Juett was one of the two ladies, and if so has she been got rid of here instead of Holland? Pardon me writing and wiring; I am going all over the district, and if I can be of any service I shall be glad. At one hotel he brought one lady first, who, he said, was his friend, and was very anxious to get her off before his wife arrived, for whom he made arrangements, and afterwards fetched her. They occupied the beet bedroom, and he is said to have had plenty of 'money.—Yours truly, Rsonicit. ' A letter would reach me on Monday n:p.rning P. 0., Bowness, a wire on Saturday morning, up to nOOO, at P. 0., 13armw-in-Furnees. It is a remarkable fact that the date—August 10th —given in the letter as the day up to which the writer says he traced the parties in the Lake District coincides with the day when, as De Jong himself alleged, Mies Juett disappeared. On August 19th he went to Maidenhead and saw her parents, to whom he told the story that she had eloped with a rich American, and he stated that she had been gone nine days, which would be August 10th. If the information is accurate it will , account for the movementa of the parties during a I period as yet unaccounted for. It is understood ithat the police are investigating the matter.