Wanted in Denmark?

[Kattrup]

I was leafing through the Danish Foreign Ministry's case registry for 1898 and noticed the arrival in september 1898 of two letters concerning De Jong:



q " September 10th - Belgian emissary sends wanted letter for Henri de Jong
r " " 13th 5 Same about ditto ditto

I wonder if such letters were sent to a lot of countries, just casting a wide net - or if something pointed to Denmark?

The reading room is closed for now, so the letters are unavailable until it reopens.

[Bart Droog]

Hello Kattrup,

I think that the Belgian authorities sent such letters to all countries with which Belgium had diplomatic connections. Otherwise this wouldn´t have happened:

In 1898 the police in Vienna (Austria) had arrested a man of whom they thought it was the fugitive Hendrik De Jong, This man was called The Jong indeed - but it was not "our" Hendrik de Jong.

Source: NN. Hendrik de Jong. De Telegraaf, Amsterdam, 26-10-1898.
http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=dd...0:mpeg21:a0020

[Kattrup]

Thank you Bart. I might eventually see if the letters can be located, it will probably be a while though