The Rural Voice, 1993-08, Page 24BRUSSELS LIVESTOCK
887-6461 `#ots° k. 887-6811
SALES
Tuesdays
Thursdays
Fridays
9 a.m.
11 a.m.
10 a.m.
1 p.m.
- Finished Cattle Cows
- Bob Calves, Veal, Sheep & Goats
- Stockers
- Pigs
Confidence • Trust • Service
WESTERN STOCKERS AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE SALE
PLATE
BURNING
WE CAN CUT ANY FLAT SURFACED
SHAPE YOU REQUIRE FROM STEEL.
OUR MODERN CAD PROGRAMME
ASSURES ACCURATE PARTS EVERY
TIME.
We make a drawing of the part on the
computer, then transfer it to the plate
burning machine, which cuts the part
exactly to your requirements.
Small orders, fast turn around is our specialty.
Another service to the farming community.
Available at Stratford store only.
HUNTER
HUNTER SSTEEL
ALES
500 Lorne Ave., Stratford, Ontario
519-273-3151 1-800-265-8579 FAX 519-273-0350
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20 THE RURAL VOICE
There was one sale a week with
separate rings for slaughter cattle,
pigs and stocker cattle.
But in 1987 Bruce McCall was
looking to slow down and sold the
Stockyards to Klaus Henschel, a
former Ingersoll -area farmer who had
been operating a car dealership in
Stratford. At the time the Stockyards
was doing $1.25 million in business a
week.
By October 1988, however, things
apparently hadn't panned out the way
Henschel was expecting and he
hatched a complicated plan to get his
money back out of the operation. On
the Monday following the October 21
Friday sale, employees discovered
that Henschel and his family had
disappeared, taking the proceeds of
the sale with them. Word also began
to filter in that a number of western
Canadian farmers had sold cattle to
Henschel in the name of Brussels
Stockyards but the cattle never got to
Brussels.
Hundreds of farmers were left in
the lurch as the banks refused to
honour cheques issued to them by
Henschel. The yard was closed down
and its licence revoked. Eventually
the company was put into
receivership and between the
proceeds of the sale of the facility
and payments of the Financial
Protection Fund, most farmers got the
bulk of their money back.
Meanwhile quick action foiled
Henschel's intricate plan to get the
money out of Canada and into a
German bank account. It was seized
before it could leave the country and
the Henschels, left in Europe without
the money, eventually returned to
Canada to face charges. Eventually,
early in 1991, Klaus was sentenced to
18 months in jail for the $790,000
fraud.
The stockyards was back in
business two weeks after Henschel
disappeared when the receiver came
to an agreement with Bruce McCall
to get things up and running. Late in
1988 the yard was sold by the
receiver to Gordon Brindley of
Dungannon, who also operated the
sales barn at Lucknow. Brindley got
the operation back on its feet and sold
it to Gamble and Rogers in March
1991.
Gamble has rebuilt the popularity
of the sale since then and praises the
support of local livestock producers