The New York herald., 1870-01-20
His Reception by the Crowd and
Last Words.
Indirect Confession and
Accusation.
Precautions Against Disorder-Military
and Police in Great Force Near
the Place Of Execution.
History of the Life and Crimes of
the Murderer.

Kinok family, was executed in Paris at seven
o'clock yesterday morning.
Notwithstanding the early hour tho execution
was witnessed BY great crowd Of people who
taunted and yelled at Traupmann as he mounted the
scafrod. The culprit was very pale, but ascended
courageousiy and with . lrm step. After embracing
the priest he cried out In . loud voice, T persist
have accomplicesn These were the last words he
uttered.
Previous to the execution extraordinary precau-
uons had been taken TO guard against disorder.
The police ana military were ON the ground in great
force: bat their services were not needed, mp to
eight O'Clock A. NJ, the city remaining tranquil.
Trnupmann's Crlmos-Tbe Butchery OF the
Kinck Family.
Jean -Baptiste Traupmann was arrested, tried
and convicted Of the murders-known as the PAN
nn massacre"-of Madame Jean, Kinck, her sons
Custave, Emile Louis, Henry Joseph, Archille Louis
and Alfred Louis, and OF her daughter Marie Hor-
tense. the wife and children OF Jean Kinck-wAo
was also murdered-a working engineer, who re-
sided with his family near La Vilette, In the CON-
muns Of Pantin. near Paris, during the month OF
ing and ruthless was the action OF Traupmann in
the taking on or eight persons, that the first int
nation which Paris and the people OF Its suburbs
had Of the fearful deed given after the finding OF
the murdered woman and children on the 2oth Of
september. year.
FINDING OF THE BODIES.
On Monday. the Goth OF September, 1859 between
seven and eight O'Clock A. NJ, one Langlols, an
Agricultural laborer al La Vilette Ia suburb Of
Parisl was going 70 his work along path called
..Ie Senter de Chem.n vert,n in the commune OF
Pantin, when he remarked In q field Of clover large
fakes OF blood; he also noticed train Of blood.
mingled with fragments OF brains, In tho direction
OF field which had been recently ploughed up. In
that field, close to Its edge, the corner Of handker
chief stuck out OF the ground. Langlois remo we'd
the soil about ana perceived human heads Heran
away ana warned rhe authorities. The ground wa
dug up. and six corpses, from which the vital heat
had not yet departed, were discovered.
One woman and I've chiidren-four boys and one
little gir--had met their death few hours pre-
viousy in this deserted spot The bodies oil in
their clothing had been thrown into pit three
metres long and forty centimetres deep To borrow
the words OF an eye witness "they Il. the corpses)
had been stamped upon TO force them into smaller
compass aud the furrows. which mad been Oblit-
Grated In the making Of the grave, had been care
fully thrown up again after It had been filed up
There nothing TO indicate tnat the victims had
struggled with their murderera On the contrary
everything showed that they had suddenly and un-
expectedy received wounds which had proved i'm
meaiately fatal. The ground and the grass adjoin.
ing showed no signs OF having been trampled upon.
One OF the children alone appeared to have tried
to avert the weapon which had injured the hand 1t
naa held up to DO so.
MEDICAL RxAMINATION or TIE DEAD-NATURE AND
NUMBER OF THE WOUNDS.
the medical men who proceeded to the post NOR.
tenn examination OF tue corpses found dreadful
wounds upon them. The woman, struck from
behind by long knife, which was driven through
ner neck, must nave died almost instantly; never
theless the murderer appeared TO have continued
striking her with kind OF blind fury, her corpse
bore not less than thirty wounds.
Tho two younger children had been killed in the
same manner.
The other three had their skulls beaten In with o
weapon both heavy and pointed, and two OF them
moreover mad marks OF strangulation about their
throats. Their broken skulls their dishgured faces
their eyes torn from their orbits and their foreheads
spit open as with q Iickaxe, showed the ferocity
with which they had been massacred. The intestines
or the little girl prolruded through the gaping
wound
THE INSTRUMENTS And GRAVE.
The knife which mad broken In the murderer's
hands was found In the fleld and with 1t y shovel
and pickaxe, which had been used in perpcrrating
the crime digging the grave and reconstruciing The
burrows above IL
Tho body OF Custave Kinck was no; found the nrst
day.
PUBLIC Observation-Disclosures or THE BODIES
The deep emotion caused b; tins unprecedented
crime promoted the ends or justice. The employees
Of the Hotel du Chemin dc Fer du hord, Boulevard
Denain, declared that the evening OF the previous
day one Madame Knck, coming from Roubaix with
nve children, had inquired for her husband whom
she supposed 70 have put up there; she had left and
never came back On seeing the corpses they identi
ned them unhestatingy rs those oi tie lady aud her
Witnesses summoned from Roubaix were shown
the bodies, and fuzzy established their IDENTITY.
portion OF the circumstances was thereby ascer-
tanned under which thio unfortunate mother had left
her nome TO receive death anu lead her children 20
the shamDles with herself
Jean KlncK, working engineer, and nus wife dweit
IN kouDalx, win Six cblldren-oustave, sixteen
years OF age; Emile Louis, thlrteen henry Joseph,
ten; Achille LOUIS, eight and . half Alfred LouIs
ABOUT seven and Marie hortense, Two ana a nsIT
The witnesses stated that kinck had LETT Tor Alsace
some time before on business that his esdest son
had followed MIN there; that, lastly he nad gone 10
Paris and written to ms family to JOIN nm.
At the hotel at which the woman kinck applied ON
the 10Th OF September traveller was IN tact regis
tered under the name OF Jean kinck. lie had dis
appeared the very day that the corpses were dns
covered; all traces OF Gustave hincA had also dsap
peared.
I'M. KIScK, FATHER AND SON, SUSPECTED.
NOW thstandng the improbabiilty of crime so
monstrous an inquiry was set on foot as to whether
the faer ana son might not bc The perpetrators VI
the SIX murders committed during the nighs from
the 18TH TO the 10th.
TRAuPMANN's ARREST.
Active measures were taken for their discovery
when on the Esd Of September, Traupmann, the
real murderer or the whole iamy. feil under the
hands Of the judicial authorities who were pre-
vi0usly ignorant o. his very existence.
The prisoner, who had arrived In the city on the
evening OF september ~, mad slept each succeeding
night Ia dinerens hotels. He gave his name az FiscE
alleged he came from RouDaix-was pointed out 10
&he gendarmere rs o suspicious character talking
IN Wild and sinister way, and trying TO purchase
by fraudulent means the papers for want Of winch
10 had been banned IN IN &stemps TO embark for the
United states.
" ;as ~ VI September, " his beng spoken 70