The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-02 00:00:00

THE PANTIN MURDERS,

set monis,' morning in last week, a labourer g at
name, a rill .go piss iirs.idei the fortificati.ms to the tooth.
east or Paris. WWI crossing a field kel his way to his etch,
when lee attention WO called by large pools of blood in a
peva of waste ground, met of which appeared to have been
nhughed or dog by an inexperienced hao winht po, thr-
fee h w the blood could have got there he saw something
white under a clod of earth, and pulled out. it •as a
white palret handkerchief, literally drench. with blood,
oat on removing it he saw a laterite hand sticking out of the
roma Ile ran off to the Commissary of Police, and WOO re-
turned to the spot with assistance. mini spades having beeii pro- !
cured, d iscovery was niade w hich st ruck horror into the heart.
of e:l who beheld it. Six dead bodies succeseively eitillo to light,
as shovelful after shovelful of earth was rem wed, evidently
thee of a mother and her five children, all of them literally
cut to pieces. Thx first body discovered wan that of a little
girl of seven, fearfully hacked about the neck ; the second
that 4 a boy of fourteen : the third that of a little girl, a
mere !.,by; the fourth was the body of the mother, a a,man
ateett forty.five--end then two lads of about twelve and six
teszi. The bodies had been lahi at the feet of each other,
and were covered by about three feet of earth, and th• inue
der, r tel tried to give the ground the appearance of ploughed
land. forming it mto furrows.
The vntims MI Most respectsbly dressed one of the
boys wore the todforni one of the fecees ; they all had
some money in tin ir pockets, the mother's earrings had not
been touched, and one of the toys hail a watch.
.41,a eel lottlle4 were paced in carts filled with straw,
and taken to the Morgue. Front nine o'clock in the morning
thousand, ntshei thither to endeavour to see the bodies,
bat tt.ty were nit to be seen a the tuellued slabs of black
Mande on which the cori,es of the uhrecognised dead are
habaly laid, bat placed Inc chamber apart, helongtior to the
establishment The p,lice on duty hot some difficulty re
keeping the peop:e from overcrowding the Slorbite, where
there else but ipt drowned zi!rtii to .see

The bodies of the murdered family were Identified as this
of Nhoto us Kin k, who So turd at Ni 22, Rue de l'Alotte,te,
Row, to, Luti her five, rhtlity,,, Enitlo an.,,1 Ili :tlryrt 14:
Alfred, 8; Achilles. 6; and Marie, 3, M Oat., Muck 4/411 a
Abe, well-looking woman, not more than 35 years old.

The following details have been published :
Jean Muck, whose principal occupation was that of •
tuther of brush handles at Roubaix, did a very thrhing
business there. Besides the house in which he lived he was
the proprietor of two or three others in the neighbourhood.
Jean /Wick, who, as might be Mien ed from his name, is an
Alsatian, hos property in Alsace, and wishing to devote the
entire house be occupied in Roubaix to business p,rpo.es,
he lately proposed to his wife that she should go with her
children to live in Alsace ; but she, a native of Turcoing,
objected, because she could not speak a word of Ger-
man. Somethinz like a quarrel ensued, and upwards
of a mouth ago Jean Kit.ck and his son Gustave lots
the how e, not, however, as running • • ay, bat on business,
or the pretext of business. A few weeks ago Madame Klock
very reluctantly, in pursuance of a pressing letter from her
buslatid, crew out a sum of 5 0a) I rams which was at her
disposition in a Roubaix bank, and remitted it to him at
Alsace. Very shortly afterwards the father and son met in
Faris. Front Bari. Jean !Stuck wrote to his wife to come for
a matter of importance, saying, " Never mind spending
tastier of 300 francs, you will 10011 make up the aunt." On
Sept 19th, she came to l'aris with her children, and went to
the addrese given her, the Hotel du Nord, kept by 'Many,
where she asked ft, 51 Black. .

Au inhabitant of Rainey deposes, that between half-past
four and five on Sunday afternoon a lady and five children
inquired at the house of M. Fromont, No ii, Avenue de
l'heiniu de ier, whether he had velocipedes to let. She
wanted two, she said, for her little boys. The witneu
vedtced that they had caps with gold bands She was told by
the grocer that he had no vel..e.peilts, but that the p..rter at
the Pavillon de liontly kept them. She replied that she had
already liven to him, hut that he had none at liliery. The
party their went towards the railway itatton ; and there can
be little doubt that they left for Pantie by the train of 7h.
R7m Hut in the meantime they dined at the restaurant of
the redid print of the station, kept by M. Dumesutl, who has
recognised the bodies.
The time taken in going by rail from Raney to Pantin, on
the •-ttrashourg Railway, is but thirty-one minutes. An
ernFloyr, of the railway, named Benitudel deposes that on
the arrival of the train at Plinth) at 711. Mtn.. he received
from a lady, with five children, flee tiektts of the third class.
There was some &aOO3-ton about there hieing only five tickets
for six people; but after the esp,anations of the mother it
was admitted that two if the children were young enough
to travel at half price. The hours that elapsed afterwards,
before their assassination, are not accounted for The Perlin
station is about Soo yards from the spot where the bills,
were found buried in the early morning; and one of the
• uip'oyja, M. Coulon, says that about midnight he heard
cries of men and women. Five other railway clerks, how-
ever, who wele up all night. say they heard nothing.

The Echo de Roubaix. speaking of the departure from
that town of Madame Klock and her children, relates
that—

"She was In a joyous humour on leaving, escorted by
several h lends ; she stated to them that she regarded her
visit to ['Anis as a sort 1 ft..e and her children. more hapo
still, erle out in chonni-- We are going to see P..pa!'
he whole interest of this dreadful anti most extraordinary
crime is now concentrated in the confession of tne young
111011 arrested at Havi e, anti who turns out to be, not youtig
hind:, as at first conjectured, but a workman who aided the
father and WU Is. musameing the whole family."

The Journal du Havre also gives the following de-
tails:—

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" The horrible affair at Pantln Is one of those which will
remain for ever in the trench judicial annals. The invent
gallon commenctel demands the greatest clrcumspectioe tti
the publication of the details. A certainty has now been
arrived at that thi ee persons were associated in the perpe-
tration of this lugubrious drama although up to this moment
only one has been arrested. It is therefore of great Import-
ance to avoid all indications calculated to impede the Nat •n
I.f justice against the two others. One may, however, sat
that the reality, to judge front the present state of the ex-
imenation, will greatly surpass in horror even the most
dramatic versions of the story.
"The three murderers are Jean Kiosk, the father Gustave.
his son ; and a third person, who has on several oceutolka
given himself the false name of Jean Kinck. This is the man
who was FO fortunately arrested at Havre by the maritime
gee darnie F,rraed. The real name of the eriminal is Traup-
wenn Papers found in his possession prove his Identity. and
show that he was a working mechanic at Roubaix. His ac-
compliceu appear to have made him one of the most active
huitrunients or their crime, lie it was who had the mission to
prepare at Paris, the mention of the affair, and to direct all
iii. material details. Being alone in that city, he had a real-
deuce at the Hotel du emiu tie Fee du Nord, le. Boulevard
Densin, ol poetic the station. It was he who arranged the
various teeparately rend, evens, all 44 which Were held at
the Cafe Pal o.•:, ' e vr,s the main who written
Benda} eveuirg to La Villette. N 25, Rue de Flandre, to
lay of the hoi r. a shovel and p-cltaxe, in
teller to dig 1n•,., ,1 .4 the victims ; and he was
Vie pers. di el,ii r.t.,sport to It desert spot
'elected lien•re,, , 1 1 , tr aloll of the Mille. th.-

unfortunate Muck ,emily I his eisa the Mall who, according
to the pre-arrange. plan, ha to lie tig each of the victims,
cue after the other, under the knives of the two other
Murderers Lwtly, he was the pers. ui whose business it was
to prepare the flight after the deed had been cf.marnitted
For that object he had come to Havre to find some ship in
which he anti his accomplices might quit femme
" Triomf:Ann In sane to have encountered at tne very outset
a difficulty to the execution of his horrible commiasion. After
I avmg elallSzd the cal, to st,t, at about 300 yards from I Aug-
pluis' field he invited Slme K luck to accompany him alone
Iwo of the youngest children, terrified by the darkness, cried
Gut several times ' Mews ! Ah, %la na ! We will go with
)411 r SO that she was 4,l3liged unwillingly to albite, them to
accompany her. Winch, the father, on seeing all at once his
wife and two of his chddren coming up, could not repress an
• xclamation of terror, and Wining to Traripmann he ex-
claimed ' Ah sillier), you have betrayed me !' A few words
Spoken to him in a low voice by the other explained every.
tiling On the instant the father and son, together with
Iraupmann, rushed upon their victims and a violent
struggle immediately commenced between Maic. Winch anti
her executioners. The paw woman, being in the vigour of
h:e, anti stimulated by the energy which the instinct of gen-
preservation supplied, succeeded in wresting the knife out of
or husband's hand. She then turned the weapon against
him, wounding him in the arm, and would doubtkes have
Contrived to escape had not the other assailants, after having
niaasacred the children. assaulted her in their turn. And to
tt.e deed of blood Wis. accomplished.
° The revelations anti informations hitherto collected by
Justice do not allow us to give precise details as to the second
sct of this savage tragedy. According to the assertions of
raupniann it was not he, but Gustave K inck, who went to
fetch Ida three young brothers from the cab. On the
cession of the first interrogation, attempted at five o'clock
lii the hospital by the examining magistrate, Traupmann
y erirts. ed in absolute silence. As there would have been impru-
dence to suffer so great a criminal to pass the night in one of
tie slespingrooms where measures of precaution were il,flicult
Of execution, an order came towards six o'clock 3, convey Tim
It the prison. Its was carefully wrapped tip in blankets. and
Ph bonnie. the Central Commissary, aecompanied him in a
e lb to the cell where he was to be kent in close confinement.
1 rinipmaidi had then a little fever, and fears were enter-
tained that pneumonia might supervene. The next morning
Ito wag much better, and it Is thought that he may soon be
removed to Paris, where his preence is of great importance
f I the elucidation of the affair. At seven in the morning he
o...lerwent an examinatb di in the course of which he made,
as a ear, asaured, a complete confession."

The Courrier at Rotten imblishes a long account,
from which we select the following particulars :
" The prisoner, when be reached the prism), declared that
he would speak the next morning. He efterwars asked tor
the examining magistrate in order to make his disclosure.
Jr the mornitig a new interrogse Ty took place, the reset, of
which is that the individual, Jean-Baptiste I raupmann,
entries from Cernay tleine-et-Oise). This individual had
bourn Kinck, the tattler, with when. he had worked at
llenbaix and at Paris, and whom he Pad lately met in the
the latter had expressed a desire to emigrate to
America after having taken vengeance on his wife, whom
Is acemed of infidelity. The interviews of the two men
were held at the Cale Parislen. With a view to obvtat• all
suspicion Train:maim had assumed the Same of Jean Kinck
with the owner's consent, and want to Mal a lodging where
Ire could, being also authorised to, ,pen en letters arriving to
11l areumed appellation. The ton did not come to Paris at
the Same time as his father, but ouly shortly before the crime
WAS committed. Except the precise nature of the ye ngeauce
ever) thi g was arr.ged between the accomplice* The woni an
Mink was written to requesting her to come to Paris.
As sire hesitated, a second letter was sent by Traumnsinn,
meter the pretext that her husbniel had sprained his wrist,
reel Minoan zing that the latter had bought a house at Paulin.
An appointment was made at the station, where she was to
netive at ten o'clock on eunday night lint as she left by an
e.alier train, .he came before the stated hour, and as no one
was there to meet her, she went to the hotel, but the person
she inquired for wee not at borne. She then returned to the
railway to wait for her husband. At the time fixed 'realm-
remit appeared, and put the whole party tato a cab, to go
ted P.M the father and son.
•• The spot wherethe crime was to be committed was selected
beforehand. 31 orelver, the elder Kinck and fraupmann had
errata/ail that latter Should Conduct the mother alone to the
}lace"
then follows an account of the mother's arrival with the
two children, trill Kinck's exclamation of his being betrayed.
3 he narrative their proceeds At the same moment the
father plunged his knife into the hack of one of his cl
mei then, with the rapidity of lightning, assailed his wife. A
hew struggle ebsurd between them, and the prisoner asserts
Host without the antistatic., which he afforded !fleck, the
Inter would have beeo mastered, and perhaps killed by
tile woman. Traupreann refused to go ter the other
hr drus, no that the son west • this latter first strangled
Ids br,ther with &silk hareikerch'ief lent Mtn by the prisoner,
eh,l which was • yellow one with flowers 011 it, simi.
rto that ins which he had his money tied up when
he was arrested Traupmann asserts that be remained mail
three o'clock sear the scene of the crime, which was com-
mitted at eleven, because, before arriving at the place tired
for a sulidwunent meeting, he had est his way, and walked
about for IWO or three mien irs a wrong direction Ile re-
turned to his hotel about °Mat in the rooming ; he saw the
eoubspr Kinek. Whil told him that rise father hail remained
ot, tile watch tip keow whether the criine was discovered. At
ylermi the son came arid Informed him that tile murder hail
Irwin discovered. 'I he arriuuni meat stunt was that all three
should go awny togehm ; but. limier the circumstances they
cechled to sap trate They met at the 1;ele Pariaieii, mid Trait's.
Mario received the papers :ma tilleileeds tourist ill his Liu.
SelSloll and about 3001. The wound on his hood, arid the
scratch., he re, tire° in anateldug Ironi the hernia of Madame
thick the kiiife which she had wrested (nen her lembano.
Klock, after having Merallt 'reused hi' ti 3'il
t"
piece. with his knife, completed MI Wolk Ceti a pickaxe.
3 hen the prisoner started for Havre, whence he calculated
ills wiesping to America. He due@ riot know what has become
it the Kincks, but thinks that they are still in Paris. Fie
would like to see them arrested, as they would relieve him
from a great part of the responsibility attached to the crime-
He prolesees to have beeli ilroi,r,lr of what WAS shout t•i
ensue whoi he conducted the wife. He profesies the Bill-
incest repentalitil, and sobs bitterly. One thought terns
tlecially to beset him—not the fear of tie aced old, which
lC has Merited, MA the remenibraece of his obi neither.
e bon, his dishonour will kill, i.e gape He aeema to 'mike
hid avowal In good faith. Tratipmann states that on arriving
It. Havre he went first to the Hotel lu Perigord, where lie
torso the ilOirie of Fisch; then he passiel the secomi night at
toe uoca de New York, where he called himself Wolff. An
to the Wahl Lavesdlag his unit, he OW he paned it out 91

illrefl,

tr.n the jetty. Ile tuck Ws food M various %UV shops,
hich he cauuut point out."

The Ccrrespondent of the Daily Niles writing from
Paria on Saturday evening, gives the tollowittg adtli
tuntal perticulara of the horrible tragedy. and recapitm
late the incidents connected aWI the arreet of
Tranitmanti

The Palate tragedy now assumes a new and most Cl
trw.dinary aspect. The young man arrested at [laves in
Thursday a as not Gustave K duck, as retained by telegraph,
but au Alsatian named Trauptnann, a friend of the Kinek
family. Ile la the man who, calling himself Jean Kinek,
took the lodging at the Hotel di, Chemin de For du Nord, and
he is, on his own confession, one of the murderers. This
phenomenal Alban, adopting the current rumour of Paris,
which he took artful mean, to propagate, says that Knock,
sen , planned the murders, and tied he, Traninuann,
was but an, accomplice with the Mucks, father anti
son. in the execution. A paraeraph in the papers
nett. as " latest news " that the elder Kieck lias
escaped to Belgium, but that an experienced tietec! ive,
spector Vandevelde, is on his traek, and fele sure of catch-
ing him. That he never oil catch him alive I feel the most
aloe ilute COnVietion Oil the strength ul evidence given by a
releeleur of the Figaro ;wit was &spa chid tip M de Ville-
messaut tin Ruitibalx, but changed Ills mind en route, and
went to Oumelnwiiinrl. coepled nih a variety of ci•cumetances
now reported from Roubaix and Geyer, ( here cumin to the
Com:fusion that K inck. senior, MO Gest.° le ince were in-
nocent, and that in all probability they were themselves as.
Mated by Traupinanti several days before the murder
of Ylliti ante Kinck anti hi r five children.
The Kite its were an united, happy, amiable family,
thoroughly respected by all who knew them, and after the
inituu,est inquiries it has not been timid th it any 'nine at
Roubaix htss a word te say In oisparagsmentud M. tor Mulatto)
K ncle or aey one of their elebiren. It is not true that the
*vilest son, Oustaie, was a child of M. Kinck by a former
marriage ; he was full brother to the five murdered children,
and itt,tead tot being 22, as stated, be was but in lie is
de-cribed as a eweet-tem:iered, gentle lad, of blameless man-
ners, mid it is hi the highe,t degree Improbable that such a
le/ would have had the physical strength and fiendish resolu-
tion to plan and execute upou Ms mother, brothers, end sisters
such a ne,saere as that of Pantile It is not true that M. Kinck
and his wife were ever ou bad terms. The only foundation
for that story is, that a ellen time ago he proposed to re-
niece his Inisitieei Irma Roolexix tui Guenweler, Id, native
place, where he haul property, and that Madame /thick, who
was a native of Tureoing, and spoke toils French, objected to
this change because she diut not like to live in a place where
people spoke nothing but German. Anil when about a
month ago M. Kinck bit Roubaix, he did not go away
stealthily, or in anger. Ile said he was going to Gueloviller
to matte preparations for his new establishment there, and
tieing a thrifty man, he calculated he should save some
trainee by travelling on the Bailee lines of railway, and
arrortlingly said he should take that route, lie desired his
wire to draw a sum of 5,5001. front the Route de bank. aud
send the money to hint in a registered letter addressed
Vesta Restante, Gitchwiller.
Now comes the important evidence given by the special
oorrespotident of the Figaro. I cannot clearly rip,ke out
whether Gustave libick went away from Roubaix with his
father, or joined him shortly afterwards, but it is certain
that the father never arrived at Guehwiller, and that the
registered letter with the 6,5001. in it lies in the leet-offiee
there still. The postmaster says that about three weeks
ago, a young man answering the description of Traupriumn
came to the office and wired for a letter for Jeau Knock
"Are you Jean K nick ?" he inquired. "Yes" was the answer.
"Then I earned g:ve you the letter, for I know Jean Kinck
to be forty-eve years of age." Thereupon the young mau
deraniped. and the letter was never afterwards inquired for
Nate of the letters received by Madame Knack irom her
huabaud dated Paris were in his own handwriting, but his
amenuensns explabied the reason of this to he that he had
sprained his right hand and was ...bilged t, get a friend to
write for him_ One of the I.t of these letters stated to her
great sattsfaction that he had given up the idea of settling at
Guebwiller, and haul found a place of busbiesa which would
suit him itt Paris This was the communication which • fee
days before her departure for Parte she spoke of to a neigh-
bour as "good news." The poor won,ait did not like the
notion of bauishmeut in Alsace, but was glad to come to
Paris.
The manner of Tranpman's arrest at lievre wes almost
miraculous A marine gendarme named Ferranti smelt him
out as if by in•tinct. fie hind beett intiuning about the
cheapest way of getting out to America, and Was quietly
taking a glen of beer at a sailor's di leking sh-p, kept by one
Mangeneau, No 57, Itiie Royale, when Ferranti who was vine
his rounds a, ten hi the evening to drive .1.1 sailors oe
board their ships, saw him. and slid net like the look of hint
All the gendarmes of the land service had been caret idly wanted
to keep a sharp look out for arty stranger visiting Havre
might answer the description of the suppusitition.
Jean Filmic of the Rue Delude. Ferranti had received nil
official information but what he read on the subject in the
newspapers, a fact showing that the newspapers, of whose
premature repents the police authuirities are ever ready to
complain, sometimes do a great deal of good by raising e
hue and cry which leads to the arrest of criminals who
might otherwise very likely escape Ferranti askel hits what
he was doing in Havre. 'lament the look out for work
Ileveyou any papere ?" " No." "Well, you stunt have a peas
port."' How so? There is no need of a passport to travel in
the interior of Fiancee' "That's more thau I know. As
)0U have no papers you must Come with me to tile
police-office to establish your identity." "Very well "
And then the two went out together and walked along the
Rue Royale, and the Qesi aux Caserees Pinennly Ferranti
w.ked his vend prisoner what was his name. Watidergee-
berque; at least, that is the neare•t spelling that can be
mace out. Ferrand observed that it was a queer mime,
arid asked him it it was really true that he had no
papers. Yes, he said, I have some letters tu German,
showing them. }'errand was by no means satisfied
with the German letters, and raid he sheuld have
to take him before the Prmureur Imperial, at the
mention of which Inectionary emote:mien turned deadly
pale Continuing his insidious, hut coeversational exami-
nation, Ferranti said -.—You auy you come for work—
what is your trade ?--t mechanic. Where do yru ice?
—At Roubaix. Aud where are you last (ride te-Paris.
The three wortie mechanic, Roubaix. Paris, were a
revelation to Ferranti. Instead of keepieg his own
counsel till he had his man in safe custody, he could
not resist the temptation of giviiig utterance to his
belief in his own penetration. and he said—Yes, anti its
my belief that yen left Paris by way of Psetin. Thereupon
Trauptuann, in unseal—they were on the Pont de Lom-
bardie at the time--took aulviintaee of a cab pusher siting
the carriage-road to rush to the left footway, while Ferrand
was on the right, and jumped over the railing of the bridge
into the dock Wein. Wh,, will save that man for me? cried
Ferrimd hi a stentorian voice. In an instant one of the ,lock
meters. a Dian waned Hansel, who haS already sauna
four lives, plunged into the w titer, mid alter a
violent term gin for TraUlinialill did his utmost to
drown himself and &sable flange' the murderer was
brrieght near enough to a boat to be pulled on hoard
by Ferranti alive. lie was taken tut the prison inthnisty,
and restorative., soon brought 111111 t.o a state which the
deters anti Was not dautierous For a long time he kept
hie head nutter the bedclothes, preteudieg to ne worse thee
tie was, and to all yolestionii put to him answered only " Let
me be quiet." At length he said, "1 aid tell what I know
to-morrow." Upon this promise the Judge of Instruction let
him alone for the night, slid now it is known he hes made a
full couft.i.m as far conceres his own guilt, lint as in the
ease of almost all the confessions ol murderers, he has doubt-
less told many lies.

Next day the Daily News Correspondent writes
The Pautin tragedy still continues to be the all.absorbing
subject of cony. sation lii Paris, and the excitement appears
to increase now that an entirely new light has been thrown
upon the horrible event Traupointun lett Barre on Saturday
at miii.day, limier the charge of M. clanle, chief of the
department of Public Safety in Pins, and several
pohce officers. When the prisoner reached the station
there was a great outcry from the crowd which
had assemlilml but the curtains of the on hole being
down, its inmates count not be seen. iraupmalin was
hurried into a first-class carriage, and the train almost
ininieillately afterwards departed lie had passed a
tolerably calm night, hut the sln.ck to the nervous system
caused by his immersion in the water had alm-st pro•trated
him Upon leaving the prison he was so weak that he
could hardly walk, and he had to lean upon the others
accompanying him lie is said to have been greatly de-
pressed in his cell and to have wept and sobbed bitterly.
The train reached Paris at soul halt past four in the after
11000 A large crowd bad wisembleil round the station in the
Rue St. Lazare, eagerly awaiting the arrival of the prisoner,
and it was otivi,ms that a highly excited state of feeling
existed against him everywhere Special precautions had,
however, been tak.ai by the authoriti, s to prevent Traup-
mann being seen No sooner was the train in than he was
hurried out of the station through a private door into is
side street, where an ordinary cab was waiting to receive
him. The officers and the prisoner were in the cab,
and the cab had driven away almost before the arrival
of the train was known to the crowd. Some few
people, however, became aware that the supposed 21.88.111
was close at heed, and many ran after the carriage
as far as the boulevard Hausmann. Yells and threaten-
ing cries hail previously been heard, and they were
continued until the cab was completely out of sight. Traup-
mann while being removed from the train is mid to hove been
completely livid, and his legs snook beneath him, so that be
had again to ben- pported. lie held a coloured silk handker-
chief to his face, to conceal his features'. The cab was ilr,vml
straight to the Nlorgim, followed by another containing the
remaining officers who had accompanied the prisoner from
Havre. /,5 50011 as it was known that Traupinann was inside
the building an Immense crowd collected, and it was at one
time feared that the circulation would be completely stopped.
Special measures were at once taken to prevent this
Inside the Morgue the accused was awaited by the Judge
d'lnstruction and the Procureur Imperial Traupmann was
then shown the bodies of Madame Kiock and her children
laid out on the marble slabs, anti he was asked if he remise
nised them "The prisoner," says the acomint in the Gan/ois
"walked a few steps along the room, and with a sangfroid
no one present exhibited. said, without moving a muscle of
his face or faltering in his voice as he pointed with his finger
to each of the dead bodies, 'That is Madarne Klock ; that Is
Emile that Is [leery; that is Alfred ; that is Achilles ; that
Is little Mary." The account further states that lie 4litt
n, t even take off his cap, and that his erniciein shocked
all who were present. The formal recognition of the dead
bodies beteg completed, Tralll.ll.oll was taken into another
room and the ',rocas verbal drawn nip It was at this
moment only that 84,111tl Signs et agitation were observed in
the prisoner's face. Before signing the wocOs.nrrbal he
again maintained that he hail been a mere instrument in the
hands tithe Knicks% father and son. The examination at the
Morgue lasted altogether about an hour. At its termination
considerable diffi.-ulty was ex .erieticed in leaving the
building owing to the increased crowd which had am
sembled. From the Morgue the accused was taken to
the prison of Nlagis and surrendered to the keeping
of the officers of that esteblishment In reply to the
questions addressed to hint, he maul that his mime Wes Jean
Baptiste TrOpMAIIII (spelling it with an o instead of an a.,
[bathe was twenty two years of age, born at term- y, In the
department of the Baud Rhin, and that he was by trade an
engineer. After making this declaration he was looked up
In • sell. Ile was seen to cast a look all round it, and then
sink, thoroughly worn out. Upoll the seat attached to the
wait The authorities can if they please put a prisoner who
is supposed to be likely tin commit into a straight
waistcoat. mts measure they have not adopted ; but bole
gaolers are with the prisoner, and they watch his every
movement. .

Tropmann, it Traupmann, Is described aa of tawny com-
plexion, very short and thin, find of somewhat effeminate
appearance. He was neatly dressed, but his ch tiles had suf-
fered by the attempt he made to drown himself at Ilavre
Two watches which had belonged to the Knicks, father and
son, are said to have been found in his possession.

A later Correspondent writes
It is now beyond all controversy that the body discovered
yesterday in the Langlois field at a distance of thirty yards
only from the spot where Mrs Klock and her five children
were found a week ago was that of Gustave K nick Though
frightfully mutilated the face was recognised at the Morgue
to-day by a sister of Madame Kinck, who arrived from Lille,
and it has hen also Identified by the prisoner Tratipmann.
The latter was brolight from the Mesas prison to the Morgue
without being told for what purpose. lie was suddenly
placed In front if the corpse, the Judge of Instruction
closely watching his countenance all the time. The assaasin
seemed astounded at the sight. When mked if he knew
whose body It was, he replied at once, " It is Gustave."
"You killed him? " No." The prisoner here ex.
claimed, "All ! the wretched father, lie has murdered
his son." This accusation Is of course not worth a
moment's notice. There can be no doubt that Intim.
mann is the murderer of Gustave Kinck, and
as little that he murdered the father, whose body
has not yet been discovei ed The runiour in this
evening's Pre, Ife, that Kinck's hmly has been found
i• a fiend near it. DOTI* I believe to be unite unfounded.
This day the Lmglois field has been ploughed all over, and
plc boil '•0 deep that the horses were greatly strained at
the a.. k A judge of instruction, a commissar) of police.
and two Or three surgeons watched the operations, but up to
four o'clock this afternoon no new discovery was made. I .
continue to think that Jean Knack must have been
assassinated In Alsace while on his way to GUebwiller,
where he never arrived. How Gustave was induced
to come to Paris is yet a niyatery There is a theory
winch I utterly reject, that, after Al, he may have been an
accomplice of Tram:m.on, BIM was killed lq him after taking
part in the murder of his neither, brothers, and sister. ihe
medical men however, who made the poo.merteln examina-
tion at the Motto., are of pinion that Gustave, whose body
was in an advanced stage of decomposition, must have beeu
slatightered three or four days before his mother. Some
of the papers still say that this poor icy--only sixteen years
of age in Jane last—mitst at any rate have made a frandul,nt
attempt to get pussessiea al the 6,44)4 nut by IllikuwiWas

• for his father to Guebwiller. This I filmly Ilisbeileve also
• It does appear that Gustave war at Guebauher about molt!
ago; and there is saute evidence that he was one of the pet
I sons oho applied at the post office for the registered letter ;
I but if so, I ant persuaded that he must have done so halo
• ceutly at the hotigatiou of Traupenon

A letter fr.,in a special correspondent of the U. nitcur.
dated Guebwdler, Sunday, Sept. 26, eaye :
I have this day seen Madame Lufbe, • cousin of M. Klock's,
who repeated to me, without the least limitation, what she
had deposed a few minutes earlier before a judge of Warne-
non. Silk! Bays that about a month ago her young cousin,
Gustave Kinck. called at her house. The moment she saw
him she asked how was his father. He replied, "That is the
very que*tion t Was abut to ask you. My father left Roubaix
a fortuight ago, and I expect.d to flint him here." Madam.
Lush, thou told kiln that Jean Kibck had written I.OIIIC
letters to her htely, talking in an uric. rain way abito
establishing Mimi at Guebwlller, but begging her to itit
nothing about it, 11.11'lit to ask for him at any other address
but Roubaix. Gustave stayed at Guehiwillor ten days. ex
pectlng all the while to ewe his father there tie divide,
his time durttor the visit between Nl:Wain° Lobe and his
aunt, Methane R.ller, his lather's aster.

The same correspondent sends the following tele-
gram
0 rimy, near (Memlller, Sept. 27, Two &Clock.
"I have received complete and very Important tutor/cat'.
fr. in Traupommi. I have seen five lettere from the 108a4St,
The last, dated September 25 (the day after the DlUrtit r
earl-eel money. To-morrow you shall receive a foll all.
parrileulor correspondence, together with an autograph c
Traumminn."

It has been stated in rpm, of the pat en s that Jean Kind,
had a natural son before ids want .ee who must now
about 22 years of age, .11 that e nor' • prob4hie z.
accomplice of TrallpnlAtal, but 'his story is very I.e It
before the public, and receives no sort of c
that. That Traimmann may have had accomplic
cin scarcely be doubted ; tor the nelhhouriumd
risotto has such a had character, that people ear assassin
may at any time be hired Intro for stew francs. A plume,
man clockinaker at l'antin has informtd the police that h,
hr,nwr if two men who last week had no flume and no vklel.
Ineanis of subsistence, and who since Sunday have had thei
pockets lull of money.
. . „

The excitement by no means abates. Yesterday (4unda,
"pleasure trains" were organised to Panto]. and hundre,
were turned se as from the Strasburg Railway station
want of room. The low wine-shops and eatmg.h,mses anon
Pantin are reaping a ilch harvest, and the keepers say the)
never iu their lives saw so mm-h tine company before.

The following is from Gulegnarti :
A carman named lingoes, living at 39, Route d'Aultervil•
lime, at Pantm, while walking about the field like the res•
of the persons attracted by motives of curiosity, suddenly
felt a clod of earth sink beneath his foot. Ile thought
as he afterwards described his impressions, that he coot
hear a sort of subterranean echo, which answered to thi
noise of his footsteps. Without lining versed in physics, s
tie modestly remarked to the Commissary of Police, he ima-
gined he was walking over a hollow which ought not to in
there Being resolved to see if his supposition was correct
he knelt down and commenced removing the earth with hi
fingers; he presently came on part of a coat-skirt, and the.
on a corpse lying with its face downward,. the arms ex
tended and the fingers contracted; to the right hand wa
still attached a tuft of blazit hair. The authorities wer,
immediately informed of this discovery, and SI. Ronbe
Commissary of Polka at ninths, proceeded to the spo
AIM M. Alfons', his secretary, and 31. Lugagiic, the
medial man who had been called to examine the bodies
on the previous Monday. Before those gentlemen hat,
arrived, a man, in moving a clod of earth with hie foot,
. found Sr me dark brown hair, which the people shared he
tween them. The news got circulated with wonderfu,
rapidity, and in a tew minutes probably 30,000 persons
core collected on the spot. A detaehment of infantry, or
atiout 120 men, from the Fort or Aubervilliere, came for-
ward and formed around this new grave a wide circle, it
the midst of which the authorities continued the search
this harrier, being hardly sufficient to keep back the or avd.
was strengthened by tour gendarmes on horseback. A mai.
with a spade volunteered his all, and then was witnessed a
scene of excitement impossihle to desct Die. The immense
crowd stood breathless with expectation The group in the in-
terior of the circle consisted only if the commissary, bis sec,
tare, Ni. Onfroy de Breville, deputy substitute to Ni. Done
d'Areg, examining Jorge, the carman Hustles, the Ithottrer
with his made, anti tire doctor, lire body was smut com-
pletely uncovered anti placed on its hack. In the neck wee
ern a fearful wound, large enough to introduce tw,
••loseil hands, and which hail almost detached the beau
from the body, and positively laid opeo the verteura
column. A common black handled knife was still stickin4
in the place M Lavigne stooped, tind with hie hande
removed from the face the earth and clotted lilmat which
had adhered to it The upper lip fore no traces of
moustache, and the chin hail never been shaved. The flesh.
however, peelril off, and the hair dropped from the heart o
being touched the thetor was consequently obliged to sus-
pend the examination, but not hello else bad rem irked that
•he corpse. which was horribly disfigured, bore traces or a
-woggle ; three deep wonmis were fouod in the region of the
heart, and at the back of the head a deep hole. nr,rloui it pro
durred by a blow front a palette. A sheet was thrown over Op
help and a market-gardener's cart, at the bottom of which
straw hail been laid, was brought to the spot On the re
inoval of the body the doctor remarked the size of he fret,
which were no donut tumefied, for they appeared if nor-
wan size. the had read in soniejourntd that G stave BMA
had those extremities unusually large. it. Lugaane then
examined the holy more closely ; it was that if a stalest
mum of about eighteen, weariog trousers of a yellowish
colt tor with a black stripe, a waistcoat of the same kind, ii
coat of dark brown fancy stuff, with a s de pocket, all
exactly corresponding to the description of the elder see,
'he cap of irown and violet check was searched for and
found in the hole There con' tat longer be any doubt that
this was the lwily of Gustave Kin k, and if any an
certainty hail remain d it would have been removed on eeeing
the light hlue knitted vest rod the ribbed slot:Anus, like
those worn by the other childreit At half past three the 0..0-t
set out for the Morgue, passing through [tenths, escorted by a
piquet of itifaittry, and accompanied by the itonintissary if
Pt dice. M. litrubel. lln aeorinti Parra the soldiers returned to
their quarters, leaving the melancholy tort,ge reduced to
the persons sti ictly necessary. The spit where this
body was found is situated about nail aay between the
larger grave and the Chemin-Vert. It is six hot long, twenty
inches wide, and of little depth. This seventh coripe had
sc tree'', been found when the poptilati m brought makes
• with which they formed a railing roots curt; they also
Omen in the earth a crofts, with an image • f the virgin, and
a wreath of immortelles. ?hovers were all thro n nolo the
inclosure by the hystanders. But the sentiments ol pit)
were mingled with ideas of vengeance anti did Lsrmch kW
' exist in France Trauponalin would he torn to piecee. if the
people could only lay hands on bins The crowd seemed fin'-
marten that air eighth body, that it, Jean Kinck, noist dis.. b
buried in the field which the people alrekkoy miii •'
lie
rratifooson cemetery." A terrier dog having scratched LIM
e,rtli at a short distance from the second grave, pit kakes
were pneluccil and several men commenced turning up the
go mild, but with at result : the dug wean further on and
I ecommeticed euiehlbumg ag an and again, the workers follow-
ing him, until hire etteMlllti,llll.l IWO 'Well made Ni new its
covery was made, and dare newt at length forced the seat chers
to abandon their task. At e et. en o'clock, h,wever, a small
the >hovel and a pukdte, which had in, doubt been seed in
the nitirders, were ft nod corned over a ith ear, h iii a furl ow
between the two I:I stes Thu-e impletwnis are W.t the same
ker those pot chased it Ni Balancer, tile ir ournonger, irk I lie
Rue de netlike. Accoriliog to the 1),h515, a lady and hei
daughter while crossing the Held, rens •irked a tort of hair in
the earth, and the apart having been searchril the shovel hurl
picksze were towel. MO (WWIle jousual whist that the dis-
covery of the b sly of Gustave Klock was due to a butcher's
dog, winch dragged up a piece of the coat.