The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-30 00:00:00

THE TRIAL OF TRaPPMANY.

All Paris was in commotion on Tuesday to near the
opening of the trial of Troprmann for the Pantin massacre.
Crowds surrounded the Court cf Arsizo ficm a very early
hour, and every corner of the hall itself was turned to
account with stools and chairs; but numbers were
well centent to stand, provided only they could obtain an
entry. Judge and jury found it no easy matter to reach
their places. The ladies, as a matter of course, were
in the majority, but members of the Corps
Diplornatique, magistrates, and other officials wcre
present. Fifty places were reserved for the
bar, and these were seized upon by junior mem-
bers at half-past nine. On the table were spread out the
inanimate witnesses to the crime, and never perhaps were
so many pieces a conviction placed en the table of the
court. There was the silk dress of Madame Kinck, the
bloodstained clothes of her children ranged according
to age; the spade which dug the trench in which the
bodies were buried, the pickaxe with which the murder
was committed—the two latter being identified by
an ironmonger who had sold them to Troppmann—
knives stained with blood found near the trench,
aad the jars containing the parts of the body of Jean
Kinck. Considerable sensation was manifested when

these were brought in. At eleven the court opened, and
the accused was brought in. A general movement
through the court shewed the surprise with
which the audience saw a short slight young man,
with a countenance by no means disagreeable, and
a frame indicating no great strength of body, stand
charged with such an extraordinary crime. Tropp-
mann, who is only twenty years of age, has
a quantity of brown hair, which he had
arranged with considerable care. He has bright gray eyes.
He was pale, and his face was scarred. Two points were
noticed. His arms are out of proportion to his
height, and his thumbs are as long as his forefingers. He
was self-possessed, and caluted the audience on being
brought in. In answering the questions put to him he
spoke in a low voice, with a strongly marked Alsatianaccent.
The act of accusation was read, the substance of which has
been already before the public. The prisener li,tened to
it with an apparent indifference which contrasted strongly
with the close attention of the audience. After the indict-
ment, the President proceeded to question the prisoner
who answered him without difficulty. He made the
acquaintance of Jean Kinck, he said, at a cabaret or little
inn where he frequently met him, and the object of all
their consultations and schemes was the manufacture of
false money. Kinck was too great a miser to intend
building, as was said. He took the journey to help in this
affair of the counterfeit coin. When the plan of Ccrnay was
shewn him, and further questions respecting the journey put,
Troppmann spoke so low that the president had to call
upon him to speak loueer. An accomplice, be said, poured
out the poison for Jean Kinck, but who this accomplice
_ .

was he would not ray. Further on he said that
on the 18th of August as he was walking he saw
three men scaling a wall for the purpose of
robbery. They threatened him if he betrayed them, and
forthwith they concocted the scheme of killing Kinck.
"Do you know them ?" was the next question. " No, Ido
not; they live at Mulhouse." He bad stated on his
former interrogation that one of these accomplices was 40
years of age, another 36, and the third 25. "you are
not," proceeded his questioner, "the only criminal who
has sought to screen himself by declaring he had accom-
plices.' "I had thcm,however," was the reply. "Tell us at
least the localities where you used to meet them ? "I can-
not tell them." Upon this there was, as there might well
bo a movement of incredulity in the court. The ques-
tioner then asked what share these mysterious accom-
plices were to have of the booty, and Troppmann
answered that they were to divide with him the 5,503 f.
"This , is the first time that you have said that."
"Pardon," replied the prisoner calmly, " I said it before.
There is a portfolio buried 150 stops within the forest of
Cerny, at a depth of fifteen centimetres, at the foot of a
small tree. In this portfolio is the proof that Jean
Kinck came into Alsace to fabricate false coin.
It also contains the name of my accomplices.-
'lf you search well," he continued, "you will find it."
Later on, when asked who had seen these accomplices,
Troppmann said that they had been seen with him
at the Hotel du Nord in Paris, by the garcon,
and also at Cernay. When told that he, and
he alone, poisoned Kinck, the prisoner was silent.
When he entered Paris he had, he said, ICOf. remaining of
the money he had taken from Kinck, but he kept silence
or returned vague answers to the President's question
about his proceedings at Roubaix. The spade and the
pickaxe he bought, he said, at the instigation of
his accomplices ; but he admitted that he knew
they were to dig the grave of the whole family. His
accomplice killed Gustave, and he did not interfere; but
he induced Madame Kinck to come to Pantin by telling
her her husband had bought a houso there. His accom-
plices murdered the family. Troppmann wished them tc
save the little giri, but they would not listen to him. He
wished to defend her, and was thus wounded in the hand.
At this point the inquiry was suspended.

The Bishop of London has conferred a Prebend't
stall in St. Paul's on the Rev. John Evans, retired Secretar3
to the S.P.C.K. _ _ _

Lord De Grey has selected Sir F. Sandford,
Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Colonial Of
to succeed Mr. Linden as Secretary to the Committee of
Council on Education.

The Bishop of Ely, who was joined with the
Bishops of London, Worcester, and St. David's in the com-
mission for consel.rating Dr. Temple, had placed four sous
under Dr. Temple's teaching at Rugby.

Several Irish Conservative papers print the state-
.nt, as from a "well-informed correspondent," that "Lord
B •ssborough has thrown up his appointment in Mr. Glad-
stone's Administration on account of the Irish policy of tin
Government." Ono journal affirms ant this step is takci
proroFed Land Bill of the Govern
"in
te.o„n sc pie n of the

A commercial travAler was a I at !
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1301;4.T-court, yosterday, with tml,, n of his
em,,b,vers. It was proved ti at in three tw. i
I,:neliester and one in EiVer. 001, the lori,onor had rc c,i.,
money to the amount, in tho aggrcgate, of about. £74, any
had not accounted for it, although ho had been called upon
to band over the money. The stipendiary magistrate ruled
that to constitute embezzlement it must be shown that a fals,
account bad been rendered; in this case no account at all
had been given. Witnesses NI ere then called to prove other
cases against the prisoner, and the prosecutor said-he could
multiply them "over and over again." The'''magis-
-440 how Ireli rt4;(l cowl-m1,14d the prisoner
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