His Victims Are Numerous

by **Karen** Mon 29 Mar 2010 - 23:08

SAYS HE KILLED HIS WIVES.

Amsterdam Police Arrest Hendrik De Jong for Alleged Wholesale Murder.

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 23. - It appears that the police of this city did not discover a "mares' nest" Sept. 20 when they made an arrest which they claimed would result in unfolding a series of crimes similar to those of Deeming, the Anglo-Australian wife murderer, for the body of one of the prisoner's victims has been found. In June last, it appears, Hendrik De Jong, a Hollander, married in England a young English girl named Sarah Jewett, and they passed their honeymoon here. Soon after arriving here Mrs. De Jong disappeared. De Jong, a short time later, married the pretty daughter of a local innkeeper. She also disappeared some time after the marriage. An investigation followed, which led to the arrest of De Jong. Today the body of Miss Jewett, De Jong's English wife, was found in Wolfhezen wood, near Arnheim, on the Rhine, forty miles from this city. There seems no doubt that the poor girl has been murdered and her husband is believed to be the murderer. The police of this country have renewed their exertions to get to the bottom of the De Jong mystery, and hope soon to find the body of the innkeeper's daughter, for nobody doubts that the latter has also been put out of the way. Those facts have been cabled to the English police and it is believed that De Jong's victims are numerous and to be found on both sides of the channel.

Source: The Fort Wayne Gazette, Wednesday September 27, 1893