The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-18
TRAUPMANN.
Trial of the Murderer of the Kiuck Family
- Closing 2cenes-The Death Sentence.

Trial Of the MurdersE; ;, Of . the j, kinck Famiiy-
PARIS, Dec. 30.-The trial ended to-day.
After the Procureur-G General had made power
full speech against the prisoner, Maitre Lachaud
spoke in defense of him. Traupmann, he said,
never had youth like that of other men.
Gloomy, taciturn, preoccupied with the future,
he was heard to say at Ramblay, ''If could only
gain five hundred thousand francs!" He
thought of nothing but the means of improving
his situation and that of his family, and his
whole mind was perpetually bent on this object
He chose the most gloomy novels. There was
one for which be had special prediction, and
the man who reads but one novel must be a man
with one fixed idea. But in the midst of this
mental disorder, one spot in his heart remained
pure--his love for his mother. You have asked
that he should shed tears over this affair. You
need but to name his mother! (The accused inn
mediately began to weep and sob, but his tears
ence. Some ladies were heard to say, 'What an
actorl" Traupmann hung his head and disap-
peared in the dock.) Even after having COM
mitted the crime in the forest of Herrenhug, he
thought on his mother and on his family want
ing bread, and before his flight he left 100 francs
for his mother. | will not follow NJ. le Procri-
urGeneral into the terrible details OF so many
crimes; my defense is to show that this man had
accomplices. This young man has become q
prey to one of those terrible mental disorders
which render the individual irresponsible. Ills
crime is written in the Wandering jew"
Traupmann has been impressed by the episode
two millions from them Men of science all
oyer the world have had their attention directed
TO this young man. One of Lnem said yesterday
"Look at his attitude; look Mt his arms; there
Is something of the mad bull In him." If, then,
there Is SO much OF the wild beast in him. be is
TO be muzzled nos put 10 death (Murmurs.)
There are several implicated in this crime aud
the accused, for his part, is great crimi-
nal. In pamphlet, which will be
published after this trial, DIR. Amedee Bertrand
the celebrated authority In mental disorders,
does not hesitate 10 say that this man is mad.
Our English neighbors have department In
their lupatic asylums set apart for criminal luna
ties. There have been three would-be regicides
in England, and they were regarded as criminal
lunatics.. The English nation would have it that
considered mad. IT, then, you believe that
Traupmann acted alone, YOU win certainly ak
yourselves what was his responsibility. NJ.
Lachaud referred to petition recently presented
to the Senate on the subject OF the penalty of
death, and contended that IL was already con-
demned by the general anxiety 20 hide the spec
,acle of All execution from the public. Traup-
mann, he continued, had written to him but the
day before--HIf I am condemned to death
shall appeal not to gain time, but only to afford
to Justice the opportunity of discovering my
accoinplices." IN conclusion, he appealed to
the jury not to award by their verdict the ex-
treme penalty. ffa g4E4ta
The President began to sum up at F. M. The
summing up lasted an hour and three-quarters,
during which time Traupmann remained seated
In bis chair in the same attitude that he had
maintained the whole day. At S'45 o'clock the
jury retired 70 deliberate, and at $50 they re-
entered the Court and delivered q verdict Of