Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-18
FRIeHTFuL MURDER.
The Assassination Of the Kinck
Family, near Paris.
Confession Of Traupmann, the Mur-
derer.

All Paris, indeed all France, Is Just
now excited over the murder Of q
whole family named Kinck. There
was the father, mother (encieate), and
five children, one Of these almost a
grown young man. At first it was
supposed that the father and this son
had perpetrated the murder, but sub
sequent search revealed the fathers
remains, and later that Of the son,
both of whom had fallen victims to
most diab0lical plot by one Traup-
mann, whereby he designed and did
possess himself Of the available means
of the Kinck family. The wretched
assassin has been arrested. How and !
what way, we will lot the Paris cor
respondent OF the New York World |
relate.
A few nights since a stranger was |
seated quietly at a small tavern in /
Havre. There were several other 1
persons present, and no one would 1
have imagined that to the history Of |
any of them there belonged aught of /
unusual interest. Incidentally DO /
liceman, on the lookout for deserters |
from the merchant ships in the harbOr, |
made his appearance, asking the usual |
questions of the guests, and requesting /
/ them to give their names and exhibit |
/ their papers. The stranger was evil /
IDENTIFY disconnected; he was q travel |
/ Ter; he had no passport; a passport /
I was not necessary to enable one 10 /
/ travel. His entire demeanOr was So I
/ suspiciO Us that the policeman, on mere I
| grounds of general eXpediency, re-
/ quested him to come along TO the
| nearest police office and there explain |
his position. The stranger made no 4
| opposition, and the two went OF 4
| peacefully together But the officer,
/ perhaps willing tOamuse himself with
/ the fears OF the other, Whiled away
| the time with such little pleasantries
a. suggested a possible completely OF
I his comrades in the Pantin assissina-
/ ton, that the latter suddenly took to
his heels, and dashing upon quay.
ended his flight by leaping into the
wafer. All the soul OF the policeman
was now aroused. He saw before him
real, an unprecedented criminal.
An expert in swimming plunged after
the drowning man, and \ terrible con-
tiict ansued in the water. The Dur
sued seemed determined not only to
destroy himself, but to drag down with
him his wOuld-be preserver; nor was
it until life was nearly extinct in the
breast of each that both were finally
brought to shore. 1t was some time
before sensible animation could he
restored to these two; hut in the mean
time the officer had made some start
ling discoveries. On the person of
the stranger he found the tiilc deeds
and other valuable papers Ofthe Kinck
family, as well as other articles that
have been proved to have belonged to
them-notably,two watches. OfcOurse
the man was at once secured, and Ia
due season, being subjected 10 the
customary ipsefFogatOries, he made
bis statement.
His name, he said, was jean Bap-
tiste Traupmann. He was friena 10
kinek, the father, with whom he had
planned to elaigFate to America.
lief0Fe leaving France, however,
kinck protested an intent to avenge
on the person of his wife certain inf
delities that he alleged she had been
guilty of towards him, and ii was in
pursuance of this design, and at
Kinck's request (whO never himselfl
dwelt at the hoteD, that Traupmann,
personating his friend, stopped a.
above at the Railroad Hotel ut Paris.
aud carried on the correspOndencei
with Roubaix. When ina family ar
rived there Re came TO seek them, and
tQpk them to Join the husband and
the eldest son at Pantin. He alleges
that he did not know Madame Kinck
was to have been murdered, and that
he was INSTRUCTED Ia bring her only TO
the scene, leaving the children behind
10 be brought up later. But the hour
was late, the spot lonely, and when
the time came for them to leave the
carriage and walk t8 the rendezvous,
the YsRBB55dfEE sRB5dE f69llaFeIRe 69llagF IRelt tSth Without their
mother that she took them with her.
On their appearance hinck, their
iather, displayed both rage and fear.
You have betrayed me-" he cried to
Vraupmann, at the same time stab
bing one child, and almost as soon
stabbing the mother. The latter
made desperate resistance, and had
diSarmed her husband and, in tuFa,
stabbed him in the arm, when 1'raup-
mann came to his sid, Wrestling away
the knife Which the wife had plucked
from her husbands grasp, and holding
her while she was receiving her last
wounds. Meanwhile, the eldest son
had slaughtered the other child, |
and, on Traupmann's refusal to share
in the beguileMeAt tQ their doom of
the remaining children, went after
and led them himself To the horrible |
spot, where they, also, we're instantly
dispatched hy the father and the
brather. Then the hOdies We're east
into their bloody grave, and the party !
prepared for flight. For they soon
learned that the deed had been discOv-
cred, and that the secret, which they
had thought would have remained
intact for months to come, If net for
ever, was then ringing through every
street of PaEis. they agreed tO part
lGmpany, but to meet again at Havre,
whence they should sail for America; ,
and the kinck papers found on Traup-
mann's person were entrusted to him
for safety's sake by the younger
Kinck. And this is tho substance OF
this remarkable confession,
Its agthGr has, with great trouble,
hetn brought to Paris, confronted at
the MOrgue with his victims, (whom
he identified with the utmost sang
froid,) and is now here;G Jail. II the
thousands Of pa1ple who have vainly
sOuGas at every place where the police
have had occasion to take hi1l, could
ever lay hands on hi5n, he would be
torn into ribbons. As for his story,
it Is not believed. That is, Nc one be-
iieYes that the TIVE kineks we're
guilty, nor that they have not been
murdered in the fuiIlllment of deep
laid conspiracy in which 1raupmann
has been a chief (if not the chief
actor, and of which he has not as yet
given the details. The body Of a
murdered man, much resembling the
young Eipek, was disinterred but
Ifstefday, on i spot hard by the grave
Of the others, ii IA very much de-
composed, but there are many reasons
to believe that it is the sons cOrpse.
Traupmann has hitherto been very
sullen and reticent, weeping p.teOusly
for most Of the time and talking about
his mother. A little longer eOntinu-
ance in this frame of mind, and the
gentle but continual pressure of the
French system of bringing prisoners
to confess their outlines, will prOba-
bly, produce the desired result, and
We may hope ere long to know the
truth. II this last found corpse prove
in tEltA to be that Of the younger
kinck, 1t will be impossible for Traup-
mann longer to persist In his present
story.
A Woman Cattle Reporter
Miss MILDLY Morgan, of the New