EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF A YOUNG NOBLEMAN.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 135, 26 July 1876, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF A YOUNG NOBLEMAN.

The following' particulars relating' to ■Eugene T’Kint do Roodcnbekev the late secretary of the Banqnc.clc Belgique, arc given by a correspondent of the “ Daily Telegraph” He is a cousin of a member of the Senate, and belongs to one of what are called .the ; patrician ' ; families of Brussels. Educated by the Jesuits, lie entered the Banqnc do Bel glquc very young', about twelve years agdj being now only thirty-five. He enjoyed the 'utmost confidence of the directors, and especially of the governor M. For tamps, who in : 18G2 was tba president of the Belgian Committee at the London Exhibition. With a salary of less than £2OO, bo spent at least £BOOO a year; bad a splendid bouse in the Quarter Leopold—the Brussels West Mud—and was to be seen everywhere, especially at the first nights of

hew' plays, with a persoxr'-ealled Charlotte Cohm!, better known by the nickname of Lolo, who was adornM with rubies and'diamonds move splendid {.ban those of the Queen, It was said ho could a fiord to pay hisonorvnons expenses with the production of gambling both at ocarto and on the , Stock liixchango. However astonishing - .this explanation, there is'something more wonderful still —the confidence of the'managers and directors of the bank, who allowed him to be all but absolute master of their doings. Last week it became suddenly known at tlio‘Bourse that T’Kint had absconded, and that seven or eight millions had disappeared with him and the 100 celebrated Lolo, T Kint not only treated as Ids own; securities which were entrusted to the bank, and sold them ; but he drew enornious suras from the treasury of the establishment, after having forged the signatures of creditors on numerous cheques, and that during many years. Some very important bankers ami brokers wei e sot down as debtors of the bank without owing a shilling, and one is quite at a loss to understand how such extensive frauds could bo perpetrated during so long a time. It is said that the directors had been warned and.cautioned many months ago, and especially by M. Bischoilsheim; but tlio governor hardly took any notice of it, so great was his faith in the young nobleman, and blindly persisted in bis delusion till ho was informed by a letter of Tlvint himself that heavy defalcations bad been'committed, and that.ho bad left for America. Tlvint, who was very prodigal of his stolen wealth, had a great number of friends among vhat is called the jeuncsse dorce. He gave splendid dinner parties and routs, invariably presided over by .Mademoiselle Lolo, and his house was crowded with personages twiee or three times,a-week. Many of the Brussels dandies owe him a great deal of money, and are now ashamed, but too Into, of being obliged to confess in court that they were his .ordinary guests. I dare not mention names, but some of the best in Belgian society are mentioned. Ho had a splendid coilectionof modern pictures, of which only the frames have been found after his departure, and it is said a part of them word sold in Paris. It is quite impossible up to this time to appreciate the loss sustained by the bank, the shares of which aro actually very much''depreciated, but some people say it may amount to many millions more than apprehended at first. There is also much talk about the liability of the directors, who/ arc all possessors of groat fortunes, and include a member of the House of Koprescntativcs, •a Minister of thp. Cabinet, and one of the Senate, the Marquis do Bodes.