The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1879-11-08

sive, luxuries. Belgium is 9 chez
place to live In, and perhaps u: For
lamps thought that bis clerk had
genius for thrift. and could make th'
income OF a beggar 60 10 far - th'
revenue OF u king. II 20. Mr.. FIR
lamps merits our eympathy. Hi
credulity, however. IL reckoDed b!
his cOuntrymen as too childlike Il
he natural, and an uncharitable ant
suspicious police have placed him II
he dock as bis clerks accOlnp!ice II
one Of the most colossal sWtndles o
modern times.
Yet it will be asked, even under tht
axest system and most credu!ou'
manager, WAS a young bank clerk IL
r'Kindt's position able to steal E920,
OOO? Nothing could he siM pier than
ne mod~s operaxdi. When e. yante,
money IT, !"rrsly APPROPRIATED scril
" any valuatfe security dssositeC]
10 the bauk. When the deDOsitor
t-ked for delivery Of the sail scrip,
r'Kiudt blandly handed him scrt.
similar In kind and amount that
had been d. posted BY somebody
Else. As he always took care to tSl
= large area Of deposits, he never
Exhausted any single one to such IA
'.xtent az to render it impossible tC
meet q sudden call from some de.
p,sitor whose lodged securities nigh,
nave been emb. zzled. As nobody
took nOte OF the number Of their
''shares, "and a. the tank kept nc
record o!anythiDg but their amounts,
nobody knew, or could know. on
Withdrawing his property that what
he got was Identical with what be
had lodged. Then no one had any
motive to suspect T'Kindt. He Waa
an unusually obliginR young gentle.
man-lendiDg people money on easy
terms. getting favOrs for them, pay.
log their dividends at eight without
deducting cvmmissi0n-in fact, be
behaved - though bis one object Ia
life were TO pOpularize the bank With
all classes Of the community. As
for the directors, Why should they be
suspicious Of q young fellow who did
80 much good work for them on flGO
q year, and never asked for an III.
crease OF salary? One day, It. is true,
they were startled BY NJ. Bischolf.
sheim, the eminent f1nancler, lodg.
ing a complaint tn the effect that
1858 shares Of the Namur and Liege
railway, belonged to him, whose
numbers he had noted, had. without
his knowledge, been distracted from
the bank and deposited In another
establishment, Of which he himself
was q director. He went and dc.
manded tho scrip but Was told by
T'Kindt that, a. the Office Vas clos.
log, be must come next day. he
came next day, aud. after waiting Q
quarter Of an hour, had bis ahsres,
which had been meanwhile recover.
ID, rendered to him ~ II nothing Wss
out Of joint 10 tho transaction. 40
Tor bis complaint, 90 cleverly did
r'Kindt defend himself, and 90 art.
FULLY did be- dwell on the popularity
the bank had gained through bic
sxertions, that, instead Of looking
into bis record Of securities, the Di.
rectors accorded him q vote OF thanks.
Even bis chief, N. F0rtampe, abated
not q jot Of his COINCIDENCE 10 him,
and only inspected bic ledgers after
giving him q fsw days notice Of bis
intention to do 90. One day, how.
ever, T'Kindt began to lind the at.
Of Brussels getting IN.
lortabiy warm, and, feeling that he
would benefit bv q change OF climate,
be set out for New York. He might
have added q new chapter to the q.
nancial history OF the Great Repub.
lie had It not been that be Was cap.
tured at Liverpool With 1870. 900 Of
other peoples money In bis carpet.
bag. His career Is now practically
1t an end; and, although the world
will be all the better for that fact,
yet We cannot profess to have much
sympathy for those he has Injured.
The public whom he robbed have
heir own carelessnee0 to blame for
What they may have suffered. Az
Ior the bank, nobody can cay that
The Directors have NOT merited what
has befallen them. TKindt has Civ.
% them q sharp lesson, and II It has
cost them f92O. 900 to learn that 1t IL
wise to keep accurate accounts and
subject their ledgers to vigilant su.
1t can only DO said that II
'he instruction u dear It 10 at least