THE GREAT BANK ROBBERY AT BRUSSELS.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 614, 7 June 1876, Page 3

THE GREAT BANK ROBBERY AT BRUSSELS.

(Borne News )

A general meeting of the shareholders of the Banque de Belgique, which has been robbed so long by one of its clerks, has been officially convoked. It is expected that the directors will give full explanations as to the present situation of the establishment. The bank, which is conducted by a governor (the Belgian senator, M. Fortamps), a deputy-governor, three directors, eight administrators, and a secretary, has been in existence for forty-one years. Its capital is represented by 50,010,0001 in shares, and it possesses the right to issue obligations up to double the amount of the capital issued. The Brussels Bourse is greatly disturbed by what has happened, and much indignation is felt against the persons at the head of the bank, as irregularities, due to the practices now discovered, have from time to time been brought to their notice, and as, moreover, it was a fact of public notoriety that the criminal, who had a yearly salary of IOOOf, has for many years past been an inveterate speculator on the Bourse, and living at the rate of at least 100,000 f per annum. Nevertheless, it appears that the governor and directors continued their confidence in him. T’Kindt, the criminal in question, and bis mistress, left Brussels for London. They arrived at Liverpool, and embarked immediately on board the City of Paris for the United States. T’Kindt, who had taken the name of Liagre, had not thought of the fact that the City of Paris had to call at Queenstown, and it was there that, owing to the expeditious measures taken by the Belgian and the English police, he, the woman, and the latter’s waiting maid, were arrested. They carried with them an immense quantity of luggage, and it is possible that a considerable sum may be recovered by the Banque de Belgique. Their arrival at P.russels is expected in the course of the piescut week. Immediately after his arrest T’Kindt addressed a te egram to the Governor of the Banque de Belgique, requesting to be treated with leniency, as he felt unwell. It had been resolved by the directors that the deposits in the strong rooms of the Banque de Belgique, of winch 7” Kindt had gradually dissipated a great part, were to be visited for examination, and this precipitated the criminal’s departure. A telegram states that a part of the deposits wanting has been found in T’Kindt’a luggage. He carried also wito him 110,0001 in Belgian bank notes, which he wished to exchange at Liverpool for American notes. The money changer having addressed himself to M, Dcnduyts, the Belgian Vice-Consul there, to know whether any important robbery had been committed lately in Belgium, the latter telegraphed, in const quence of a paragraph which he had read in an English newspaper, to the Banque de Belgique. This contributed much to the speedy arrest of T’Kindt. The original shares of the Banque da Belgique (100,000 at 500 f each), which had fallen last week from 415 f to 315 f, closed at 350 f.