The Sun. — 1869-10-02 (London, England)

JEAN KINCK—  a property acquired by years of industry, and amounting, altogether, to a little over five thousand pounds—TRAUMANN deliberately set himself to work to destroy the whole family—a family consist ing of eight individuals. This determination he arrived at, while he was engaged as a workman at Roubaix, in the elder KINCK'S employment. TRAUPII ANN worked for JEAN KINCK for a  period of only a, little more tho.n twn months, from the middle of May until nearly the end of July. Within that interval he wormed him self into the good graces of the family and into its confidence. He formed his plans. He carried them  out afterwards with devilish delib2ration. Ife de,  sisted not until he had murdered both the husband and the wife and all the children. His eight victims were destroyed, and their dead bodies, as carefully as haste would permit him, were concealed. Bat, for all that, seven of the eight corpses have already been brought to light, and the assassin himself has been captured. Both the exhumation at Pantin of his seven last victims, and his own seizure at Havre, were purely the result of what we call accident. A labourer stumbling over a pool of blood in the field at Pantin observes a rag sticking out of the newly turned earth —hence, on the very morning after the midnight massacre, the mangled remains are disinterred. An intelligent maritime official going his rounds of in - spection one evening among the wine shops of Havre, has his suspicion excited in one of them by the look and bearing of a young man, who turns out to be the impersonator of JEAN KINCK, first of all at  Guebwiller in Alsace, and afterwards at the Hotel du Chemin de Fer du Nord at Paris and not only JEAN RINCK'S impersonator, but the destroyer of him and of his whole family. In regard to this horrible and enormous crime two dis coveries alone remain to be made—the discovery of JEAN KiNcles dead body, and the discovery of the tall man with the large hands, who was observed on the night of the murder at Pantin, following, with a bludgeon in his grasp, the unconscious Madame  KINCK with her children, and the conscious ruffian  TRAUPMANN, of whom that tall man with. the large hands and the bludgeon was probably an accomplice.  Tim miscalled assurance companies which have been found unsafe enjoy a temporary immunity from criticism during the time that their case is awaiting judicial investigation. The Echo has been called to account for commenting upon one of these unfortunate companies, and has been compelled to apologise and promise to be silent. But the subject is one which requires immediate action on the part of policy-holders, grim death will not wait for official investigations, and men must take instant measures to protect their families from the loss which may overwhelm them if the bread winner is removed. The European Insurance Company have received a large number of contributions from working men. Many of the small policy-holders are the drivers and conductors of the London omnibusses, some of whom have been paying in two shillings a month for many years, and now find themselves uncertain whether their carefulness and self-denial have not been thrown away. With regard to all insurers for a sum not exceeding £lOO, there can be no doubt that they should avail themselves of the Government insurance through the Post Office, which is both secure and convenient. Insurers for a larger amount will find it answer their purpose to investigate the condition of the office in which they are investing their money. In all cases they ought to ascertain the proportion between the funds which the company have in hand and the amount of the policies which they have issued. It will be found that this proportion is as low as four or five per cent. in some offices, and as high as forty to fifty per cent. in others. In LifetheAscasseeeioaf an tien_etlhd taeespeblileisieheedinoffifceer—ee thaemLeloinntdotno 7,300,0130, and the funds invested are £3,000.000. All offices of long standing ought to have invested ifnuentands einesabtohue proportiontth esamepmroapy be less wherealthoughortion,a la in some e No eoitnmeut of insurer should insurances Shoumbo satisfied beene-fiedwithreecuetnta.elyceerfaiecetinedg. that the office in which he has insured has in hand funds corresponding to the amount of their policies, and the average length of time they