DREADFUL AFFAIR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 357, 26 February 1881, Page 3

DREADFUL AFFAIR.

William Marianas de Jongh, clerk at the Ministry cf the Colonies in Holland, who was arrested recently, has confessed in prison that he was the murderer of a schoolboy—Marions Bogdaardt. He says that prior to the crime, and before he had possession of the hoy, he wrote the letter referred to, to the boy’s father demanding the ransom of L6OOO. The date on which the money was to bo paid was left opea. The letter was written in the Cafe St. Hubert, from which he went to William’s Park, where Mr Bogaardt resides. It was two o’clock in the afternoon, and Mrs Bogaardt had jast left her house and driven with her carriage to Scheveningeh. De Jongh thereupon went to the Rhenish Railway station, and having dated his' letter, ! put it in the post office letter box. At | the station he took a cab, with a half- j sleeping cabman? who,- thereupon hardly j noticed his face. He drove to the school and asked for young Marius Bogaardt, a fine—looking boy of thirteen years. “Do you know me?” he asked, “To be sure” said the boy ; “ I have often met you in the park.’ “ Now my boy, your mamma asked me to fetch you from school, said De Jongh, “ Did she not then go to Scheveningen ?*’ inquired the lad* “ Yes,” replied De Jongh, seeing the lad knew his mamma’s intention; “hut she told me that on her return she would wait tor us at a peasant’s house on the downs near the town.’ The boy then fetched his school articles, asked permission to leave school and accompanied De Jongh in his cab. When they arrived on the downs the raurdeter sought a quiet place, where he threw the boy on the ground, and bound his hands and feet with , a cord, which he bought the same morning, “ Remain here,” he said to Marius, who was nowcrying, till I return with the money I have demanded from your father. Stop crying if you don’t 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 helm fWwi ADS.__De Jongh took his sword out of his walking-stick and killed the child, stabbing him seven times in the heart. In a very agitat.fi state the inhuman ruffian fled to Scheveningen, washed his hands at the sea shore, and returned to Hague.