The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-28 00:00:00

THE MASSACRE AT PANTIN.

The elucidation of the Pantin mystery proceeds slowly:
but the excitement of the French public only gains strength
by delay. Paris, says one writer, is mad about this crime.
" The excitement caused in London by the most celebrated
and sensational murders perpetrated in England in our
day—such as the Manning or the Jenny affair—does not, if
my memory serves me, anything like equal that which now
here prevails. It is a passion, a rage, a fury, an insanity.
Some of the papers fill their columns with scarcely
anything else. Journalists and amateur detectives are
travelling about the country, tracing out every circum-
stance connected wi,th the affair, visiting the places with
which the victims and supposed murderers were connected,
and writing down their minutest impressions and observa-
tions. Some of the papers which devote themselves most
particularly to the topic declare that their sale has in-
creased by tens of thousands since the murder, and the
statement is probably to a great extent true." Hundreds
of people daily drive or rail out to the scene of the
murder, and among them are a great number of
ladies, not a few of them of the demi-monde, but
also many persons of distinction. A paper says
that on Thursday ladies were taking their luncheons
on the grass, at the very place where the blood-
' stains were discovered on Monday morning last,
which led to investigation and to the disinterment of
the mangled corpses. As there is no restaurant or pro-
vision merchant in the neighbourhood, it is presumable
the ladies in question took their food out from Paris, in
order to enjoy a sensational pie-nic on the very spot of the
horrid butchery. On Friday there were also a great many
visitors—ladies,- literary men, actors, and even a Russian
prince—an exotic not very common in Paris at this season
—but there was no more banqueting on the turf. The
papers assert that the Prefect of Police, M. Pi6tri, who
goes daily to St. Cloud, makes regular reports to the
Emperor on the progress of the investigation of the
affair. The man Traupmann, or Tropman, who was
arrested at Havre on Thursday, and who is now supposed
to be the murderer of the whole family, was brought to
Paris on Saturday afternoon. A large crowd had assem-
bled round the station in the Rue St. Lazare, eagerly
awaiting the arrival of the prisoner, and it was obvious
that a highly excited state of feeling existed against him
everywhere. Special precrutions had, however, been
taken by the authorities to prevent Traupmann
being seen. No sooner was the train in than
he was hurried out of the station through a private
door into a 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

fcw people, however, became aware that the supposed
assassin was close at hand, and many ran after the
carriage as far as the l o slevard Haussmann. Yells anp
threatening cries had previously been heard, and they
were continued until the cab was completely out
of sight. Traupmann, while being removed from
the train, is said to have been completely livid,
and his legs shook beneath him, so that he
had again to be supported. He held a coloured silk
handkerchief to his face, to conceal his features. The cab
was driven straight to the Morgue, followed by another
containing the remaining officers who had accompanied
the prisoner from Havre. As soon as it was known that
Traupmann 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 Juge d'lnstruction and the Procureur
Imperial. Traupmann was then shown the bodies of Madame
Kinck and her children laid out on the marble slabs,
and he was asked if he recognised them. " The
prisoner," says the account in the Gaulois," walked a few
steps along the room, and with a sang fro-id no one present
exhibited, said, without moving a muscle d his face or
faltering in his voice,a3 he pointed with his finger to each of
the dead bodies, "That is Madame Kinck; that is Emile ;
that is Henri ; that is Alfred ; that is Achilles ; that

is little Marie.' The account further state 3 that he did
not even take off his car, and that his cynicism

shocked all who were present. The formal recog-
nition of the dead bodies being completed,
Traupmann was taken into another room and the proces-
verbal drawn up. It was at this moment only that some
signs of agitation were observed in the prisoner's face.
Before signing the proces-verbal he again maintained that
he had been a mere instrument in the hands of the Kincks,
father and son. The Times correspondent, who leans to
the belief that Traupmann murdered the whole family,
says he must have had accomplices. Tho pickaxe he
wielded was a very heavy one. He could not alone have
committed the murder and dug the trench.

The whole of the sheep which arrived in London
for Monday's markets were seized on account of disease.
Two MORE BARONETS.-011r Liverpool Corre-
spondent states thtt Mr. William Jackson, of Birkenhead,
and formerly me nber for North Derbyshire, and Mr.
Hardman Earle, of Allerton Towers, near Liverpool, have
accepted baronetcies.—Times.

An ingenious farmer has found a way to induca
crows to commit suicide. He strings several grains of corn
on a horse-hair, causing a tickling sensation in the crow's
throat. In his effort to get it up the crow invaribly
scratches his head off. A patent has been applied for.—
American Paper.

RETURN OF HOP-PICKERS TO LONDON.—On Satur-
day and Sunday thousands of ragged and famished men,
women, and children poured into London from the hop-
producing counties in a most pitiable plight, and so over-
whelming were the applications for casual ticket 3 for a
night's lodging at one or other of the workhouses, to the
police inspectors, as to occupy tho undivided attention of
those new relieving officers for hours, whilst the masters.
porters, and other workhouse officials wcro in many in-
stances completely at a loss to find room for the poor crea-
tures to even lie down under any sort of cover.

CATTLE IMPOitTATION.—The. only way in which
reform can be brought to bear on this subject,
is by a rigid inspection of all stock—first, at
the port of embarkation in Ireland, and then
again at the port of landing in Britain. In every
case in which animals were put on board sound, and de-
barked in an injured condition, the double inspection
would furnish to the owner good ground for bringing an
action against the company through whose mismanage-
ment and want of proper accommodation the injury
was caused. Ono or two successful actions in this
way would inevitably react upon the general traffic
management for its effectual reform. Whatever the
Irish breeder might gain by the salvation of his store
stock from grievous loss of value during the short period
of exportation, the English graziers would be still more
advantaged in being enabled to purchase beasts of better
quality in a more healthy and promising condition, and
thus all parties, excepting graziers in Ireland, are interested
in applying the humane clauses of the Contagious Diseases
(Animals) Act to the droving, railwaying, and shipping of
Irish cattle.—Chamber of Agriculture Journal.
THE CATTLE DISEASE.—The foot and mouth
disease is spreading rapidly in the neighbourhood of Leeds.
A number of animals were attacked some weeks ago, and
since then the disease has made great progress. The
West Riding justices aro the local authority in
the matter, but no steps can be taken by them
until their meeting at Wakefield on the Ct'i of
October. At Mahon, on Saturday, there were
many reports of the rapid and apparently mysterious
spread of the disease. Reports were made from various
parts of. the district, and notably one from Amotherby, in
which nearly twenty beasts were stricken in a field a mile
and a half from any road, and to which it is not known
that even a dog had access. Sheep are also reported tc
have taken the disease. It is about thirty years since the
district was ravaged by a similar visitation. Mr. Kilby
of Appleton Roebuck, one of the most active members of
the North Riding Chamber of Agriculture, has issued cir
cnlars to almost every farmer of note, seeking replies tc
certain questions as to the lung disease and the foot and
mouth disease, with a view to a compilation of statistics
sheaving the losses sustained by Yorkshire farmers, and
also by the country at large, by the occurrence of thew
epidemics,