Arizona republican., 1914-06-05

the police by whom the six corpses were speedily disinterred. These con sisted of a woman and five children
 The woman had been killed by a blow from behind. but her body bore no fewer than thirty wounds. Two of her children had been stranSled, but all ap- peared to have been slaShed and bat tered and mangled as if with the fury and malice of a demon Upon inquiry it was found that the family-Whose name was Kinck-had only the day be- ; fore arrived from RoubaiX that the wife had inquired for her husband at the Hotel du Chemin de Fer du Nord, and had then gone no one knew whith- CT.
 A person who had been staying in the hotel and who had given the name of Jean Kinck had disappeared about the same time, and about him, for some days, no information could be obtained. Three days after the first discovery d man calling himself Fisch was ar i rested at Havre as a suspected person. He had been staying at different ho- tels, making sinister utterances. and i trying to obtain fraudulant embark ment papers in order to start for the i United States. His answers to the i gendarmes were confused and unsat
 sfactory.
 1 On his way to the Procureur Imperial 1 Fisch almost successfully attempted to commit suicide, and when searched number of the missing Jean Kinck pa
 pers were found upon him. Clearly the suspect had had something to do with 1 the Pantin murder, which was just
 then making so much stir.
 After he had been safely lodged in | jail it was learned that Fisch was the assumed name of Tropmann. The au- 1 thoriues scarcely believed that any single man could have committed such i wholesale homicide, and their prisoner | forthwith turned their doubts to ac-
 count. He had been present. he said, when Madame kinck and her children
 met their deaths; nay, he had been, in
 q measure, the instrument of their murder. But at the worst he had only
 been an accessory. Jean Kinck, the
 head of the family, had doubted his
 wife's fidelity, had arranged with his
 son GustaVe to leave France for Amer
 ica. and the two had taken their friend i Tropmann into their confidence with
 whose aid they had carried out the plan
 which they had contrived for murder ing all of the family
 But this fiction was too flimsy to hang together after Gustave kinck's 1 body was found only few yards from
 the place where his kinsfolk had been ! laid. Then came new subterfuges and
 fresh falsehoods. ending, however. in 1 confession that he had poisoned Jean | kinck with prussic acid. and had bur
 jed him in the environs of Watwiller. in Alsace, some time before despatchinr the other members of the family. i Search was made. the body was found
 and the solution of the mystery was at length complete
 The evidence at the trial showed that 1 Tropmann had ingratiated himself into , kinck's favor and worked himself into his confidence. with the set and delib-
 crate purpose to murder him in order
 to gain possession of his property With
 this view he had fostered Kinck's pur-
 pose of visiting Alsace, had accompan-
 jed him to Cernay. with his own hand ! had prepared the pOison.which he af-
 terWards poured into the wine flask
 he carried with him. handing it to , Kinck at a moment when the two were
 in 2 secluded place in which he might speedily get rid of the body of his first ! victim
 Then began a system of fraud and
 forgery by which Madame Kincll and her family were induced to come to Paris. Rolled in his endeavor to get one of Kinck's checks cashed. he wrote 1 to Madame kinck, in her husbands
 name, telling her story about an in jury to his hand, which compelled him to employ Tropmann as amanuenss and urging her to come speedily to the capital, where he would meet her
 1 The entire plan worked out to the
 satisfaction of the criminal. The evil dence that was brought out was con- elusive, and the murderer was finally compelled to confess. Never has q
 criminal been brought to justice for
 whose offense there was less excuse or
 extenuatiOn and the Procureur but express the sentiments of universal humanity when he urged that the pun ishment should be equal to the crime. ! Tropmann was gullotined about three [