AN EVENTFUL LIFE.
The Antwerp police arrested a short time since an individual whose adventures during the last two years would form a good chapter in a romance. Two years ago he was condemned by the tribunal of Termonde for a minor offence to a few days’ imprisonment. He contrived, however, to escape from his guards, and was believed to have left the country ; but he was in the woods between Termonde and the village of Buggenhout, where he remained for a year, subsisting on berries and roots, and sometimes on such matters as he was able 1o steal, until at length he was so closely pressed that he went away, and crossing the frontier into Holland entered the army there. After a few weeks, however, he deserted, and joined a gang of scoundrels, who prowled about the country till the Dutch police captured most of them. This man, whose name it appears is Van dan Broeck, then re-entered Belgium, and contrived to obtain possession of a passport made out in the name of Wauters. Armed with this document he ventured into Antwerp, where he was discovered by the police and has been locked up.
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Globe, Volume II, Issue 151, 27 November 1874, Page 3
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195AN EVENTFUL LIFE. Globe, Volume II, Issue 151, 27 November 1874, Page 3
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