The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-15

pickaxe. Then the prisoner started Tor Havre.
whence he calculated on escaping 10 AInerlSa,
He does not know what has become oil the klncks,
but thinks that they are still IN Parls."
THE MURDERER AT PARIS.
Thus it has been seen that it was Traup-
mann, who. at the hotel, had given the name
Of Jean Kinck, the father.
On Saturday, Traupmann was taken 10 FariN.
The trained reached there at half-past a. Spe-
cial precautions were taken to prevent the
prisoner being seen. and he was taken out OF
the station by private door to avoid the
great crowd which, in highly excited state,
awaited his arrival. He was put into the CAB
and driven away almost before the arrival OF
the train became known.
While leaving the train the countenance OF
Traupmann was perfectly livid, and his legs
shook so that he had to be supported.
Inside the morgue the accused was awaited
by theJuge d'Instruction and the Procureur I'M
perial Traupmann was then shown the bodies
of Mme Kinck and her children laid out on the
marble slabs, and he was asked If he recognized
them 'sThe prisoner" says the account in the
Gaulois, ''walked q few steps along the room,
and with sang froid no one present eXhlDit-
ed, said, without moving muscle OF mis- face
or faltering in his voice, as he pointed with
his finger to each of the dead bodies, That is
Nine. Kinck, that is Emile, that is Henry, that
The account further states that he did not even
take off his cap, and that his cynicism shocked
all who were present.
In his examination here he afterward said:
- was nothing more than Jean and Gustave
Kinck's accomplice. / held them (the de-
ceased.) pushed them toward the hole.
while Kinck, father and son, gave the blows"
THE CONFESSION FALSE.
At the time that the confession of Traup-
mann first became public, disbelief In its truth,
now Justified, was openly proclaimed by many.
1t indeed seemed strange that neither of the
Kincks, father or son, appeared after the MUIR
der {; but might not this be because they loo
were dead A letter from one Of the relatives
of the Kinck family, printed on the 9th OF
September, sad
IAN that has been printed on the origin and
circumstances OF the crime Is absolutely false
and altogether absurd was very intimate with
that unhappy family, and more united circle
could hardly be found. Therefore, all the alleged
disagreements between them are untrue; and, II
the father and mother differed about the plan OF
settling in Asace, IL never went so far as 70
create serious dissent. Jean Kinck and his son
had an excellent character. My
friend Kinck left for Alsace about month ago,
to prepare his establishment there Some time
after was talking with Mr. Left, workman
here, and q cousin OF Kinck, and asked MIN II ne
had heard from his relative. NO. was the reply;
but my wife, who is staying at Guebwiller,
writes that she knows where Kinck ls the latter
having let her know, but that he wished 1t to be
kept secret only laughed at my friends whim;
but two circumstances communicated by Nine.
Left to her husband seem very strange to
me- and throw q strong light on the
whole affair. A young IMAM called at
notary's in Guebwer with power OF attorney
from Jean Kinck. You are GustaVe Kinck y
reply. However the notary was not pleased with
the young mans appearance, had some suspicion
something was wrong, and did not give up the
money he came for. Four or five days afterward
another GQst;fve Kinck appesred. The notary
nesitated again, though he thought this one had q
family likeness with Jean Klnck, and said, Come
again with your father Since that day, the no
tary has seen no one-neither father nor son, true
or false. Two or three days later registered let
ter arrived at RoubaiX for Gustave Kinck, who
was not at home; but In the afternoon an indi-
vidua applied at the office and said, MY name Is
Gustave Kinck; have you a letter for meS' The
clerk who knew little the real Gustave Kinck
by sight saw that the man before him was not
the same, and refused, In consequence to denver @ yer
ilsace, Madame Kinck received not one single let
ter in his own handwriting. She was uneasy at this,
and mentioned 1t to her neghbors. When kinck
gave her his address at the Hotel du Cnemm de FER
du NOrd, she asked him why these letters were
not in his handwriting; the answer was that he
had sprained his wrist, and used the hand OF a
friend which rcassured her ut once. Jean Klnck mas
not been seen at Buh or at Guebwiller. he must
have been murdered OH the journey; and the
powcr OF attorney shown ut the notary'S was
either forged or stolen. AS to Gustave, nobody
saw him since he went to the notary, anu ne IS
totally unlike what they described the man to be
who stayed at the hotel In Paris. Now few
words about Traupmann, who has been arrested
In Hayre. He was friend OF the family, ana uiu
business with Kinck. am convinced the father
and son have been killed In Alsace, as the mother
and children were at Pantin. The man arrested,
Traupmann, and his accompces, have stolen the
mower OF attorney, and attempted TO steal the re-
pstered letter. Afterwards they drew the family
m, Dur in nrfla murder
crime was not discovered, they would nave oo-
tanned with forged powers OF attorney the money
for the property sold.n
And now later intelligence proves that Traup-
mann did not reveal all. There are
FURTHER HORRORS.
The French Journals state that the body OF
Gustave Kinck, the son, has been found at
Pantin, with knife sticking In his throat. IL
has been identified by Traupmann: 1t was found
quite accidentally by passer-by, and was
about thirty yards from where the other bodies
were. AS soon as the news of Its discovery
was made known, the crowd, already consid-
cradle, became enlarged until 1t numbered
thirty thousand persons, and military assist
ance had to be obtained to convey the corpse
to the morgue.
THE WANDERING JEW.
II is stated that Traupmann, previous to his
arrest, became acquainted with man named
Dourson, with whom he took breakfast. AT
this breakfast they had q philosophical discus
ton, in which Traupmann remarked that he had
read the - Wandering Jew" and that he made
the character of Rodin his ideal.
Our readers will recOliect that Rodin, In the
story of the Wandering Jew" was the head
of the order of Jesuits, and devoted himself
with great assduity to procuring the death OF
those who stood between his order and an I'M
mense sum of money which would come into
its Golfers were they removed. And 1t Is re-
markable that Traupmanns crime, suggested
by reading about Rodin, was due to the desire
to procure the money Of his victims. -.
Traupmann is described as man of small
statue, with keen eye, well formed features,
an ordinary forehead, an ill-made figure and
souchng gait He stated to the authorities
that his name was Jean Baptiste Tropmann,
(spelling it with an instead of an a. that he
was % years of age, born at Cernay, and tnat
he was by trade an engineer He is undouDt-
edly one of the worst villains on record.
The body of the elder Kinck remains to De
found. Then the bloody record will be COM
plete.
Since the above was in type, a cable tele-
gram has been received announcing the dis
covery of the corpse of the elder Kinck in
Alsace.
M4TERI1LISM.
The Views of Charles Dickens.