Boys Charged With Murder Of School Friend

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30091, 27 March 1963, Page 4

Boys Charged With Murder Of School Friend

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UTRECHT (Holland). Mandi 26. The trial opened yesterday of a poor carpenter's son accused, with the two sons of a adlllonalre, of having murdered a K-year-old school friend. The prosecution alleges they killed him for fear he would teffl police they had stolen fruit, sweets and lemonade for a “feast.” The caee has aroused wide public interest after ritegattone that one of the millionaire’s eons, Boudewijn Henny, aped 20, waa given special treatmeat when recaptured after escaping from arrest in 1961. Henny was found at his parents’ villa at Baaro, near Utrecht and taken to the police station in the public prosecutor's car, white other potace continued searching lor him. in the rain for eevgni hours. Dutch newspapers then opened funds to provide a first-olnas lawyer to defend the carpenter’s eon, 19-year-<dd Hetxfrikus Werkhoven. Werfchoven went on trial today, but Boudewijn Henny and his brother Bwoud, aged 18, will not be tried until later this week. The prosecutton alleges Oie deed schoolboy, Theo ktet looked in the ’tower” room of the Benny’s villa for live weeks before be was killed. Werkhoven told the Court there had been various pions for kitting MaatwUk. including one, which tetled, at putting steeping tabtete in a jfaas of beer. finally, be said. Boudewyk

Henny killed Mastwijk on August 2, 1960, by hitting him on the head with a chopping knife. » Werkhoven then threw the body into a well, he said, and it lay there for 15 months before a workman found it. The trial is continuing.