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London, England, 1869-10-02 00:00:00

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;LONDON, SA7 URDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1869

If ever there was a brutal sensational murderer
without one twinge of remorse in the despatch of
his victims, it has been this young assassin of the
KINCK family:of Roubaix, by name JEAN BAPTISTE
TRAUPMANN. Seven of the dead bodies of the eight
victims in this wholesale atrocity have, as all the
world knows, been discovered clumsily hid away only
a few inches below the surface of a field at Pan-
tin. The reported discovery of the eighth corpse,
still missing, turns out to have been precipi-
tately announced under a misapprehension. It is
still being sought for in the neighbourhood of
JEAN KINCK'S native place in Alsace, the lit-
tle town of Guebwiller. There the missing man
was evidently butchered. There, or thereabouts, his
mouldering remains will doubtless sooner or later be
discovered. He was manifestly the first obstacle
cleared out of the way of TRAUPMANN. His eldest
son by a first marriage, GUSTAVE, was the next of
the family destroyed by its eventual exterminator.
Madame KINCK, nee ROUSSELLE of Tourcoing, JEAN
KINCK'S second wife, and, together with MARIE
KINCK, their four young children, consisting of four
boys and a little girl of three, were the last who were
massacred by this miserable wretch TRAUPMANN. An
accomplice he may just possibly have had towards the
end, namely, when the task before him was the but-
chering and the burial afterwards, of the six together.
But, however, that may be, the planning of the whole
arrangement was TRAUP3IANN'S, and no other than
TnaurmANN's. Effeminate in appearance, moderate
in stature, slight but evidently powerful in build, a
stripling in age, being as yet hardly twenty—a reader
of, and a brooder over, EUGENE SUE'S criminal ro-
mances of the " Mysteries of Paris" and of the
" Wandering Jew," this appalling criminal, ac-
cording to his own confession, was bent
upon emulating the imaginary monster RODIN,
in the last of those two famous narratives. In order
to possess himself of the property of JEAN KINCK—

a property acquired by years of industry, and
amounting, altogether, to a little over five thousand
pounds—TRAUMANN deliberately set himself to
work to destroy the whole family—a family consist-

ing of eight individuals. This determination he
arrived at, while he was engaged as a workman at
Roubaix, in the elder KINCK'S employment.
TRAUPII ANN worked for JEAN KINCK for a

period of only a, little more tho.n twn
months, from the middle of May until nearly the
end of July. Within that interval he wormed him-

self into the good graces of the family and into its
confidence. He formed his plans. He carried them

out afterwards with devilish delib2ration. Ife de,

sisted not until he had murdered both the husband
and the wife and all the children. His eight victims
were destroyed, and their dead bodies, as carefully as
haste would permit him, were concealed. Bat, for all
that, seven of the eight corpses have already been
brought to light, and the assassin himself has been
captured. Both the exhumation at Pantin of his seven
last victims, and his own seizure at Havre, were purely
the result of what we call accident. A labourer
stumbling over a pool of blood in the field at Pantin
observes a rag sticking out of the newly turned earth
—hence, on the very morning after the midnight
massacre, the mangled remains are disinterred. An
intelligent maritime official going his rounds of in-

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spection one evening among the wine shops of Havre,
has his suspicion excited in one of them by the look
and bearing of a young man, who turns out to be
the impersonator of JEAN KINCK, first of all at

Guebwiller in Alsace, and afterwards at the Hotel
du Chemin de Fer du Nord at Paris and
not only JEAN RINCK'S impersonator, but
the destroyer of him and of his whole family. In
regard to this horrible and enormous crime two dis-

coveries alone remain to be made—the discovery of
JEAN KiNcles dead body, and the discovery of the
tall man with the large hands, who was observed on
the night of the murder at Pantin, following, with a
bludgeon in his grasp, the unconscious Madame

KINCK with her children, and the conscious ruffian

TRAUPMANN, of whom that tall man with. the large
hands and the bludgeon was probably an accomplice.

Tim miscalled assurance companies which have
been found unsafe enjoy a temporary immunity
from criticism during the time that their case is
awaiting judicial investigation. The Echo has been
called to account for commenting upon one of these
unfortunate companies, and has been compelled to
apologise and promise to be silent. But the subject is one
which requires immediate action on the part of
policy-holders, grim death will not wait for official
investigations, and men must take instant measures to
protect their families from the loss which may over-
whelm them if the bread winner is removed.
The European Insurance Company have re-
ceived a large number of contributions from working
men. Many of the small policy-holders are the
drivers and conductors of the London omnibusses,
some of whom have been paying in two shillings a
month for many years, and now find themselves
uncertain whether their carefulness and self-denial
have not been thrown away. With regard to all
insurers for a sum not exceeding £lOO, there can be
no doubt that they should avail themselves of the
Government insurance through the Post Office, which
is both secure and convenient. Insurers for a larger
amount will find it answer their purpose to investi-
gate the condition of the office in which they are
investing their money. In all cases they ought to
ascertain the proportion between the funds which the
company have in hand and the amount of the policies
which they have issued. It will be found that this
proportion is as low as four or five per cent. in some
offices, and as high as forty to fifty per cent. in others.
In
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7,300,0130, and the funds invested are £3,000.000.
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insurer should insurances
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that the office in which he has insured
has in hand funds corresponding to the amount of
their policies, and the average length of time they