Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-10-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

PRIAM. The victims were a mother and her five children, none Of whom had given serious offence to any body, while the children, at all events, must: have been perfectly innocent, and most probably unconskieus; .causes of -irritation. They had been to Paris on a Sunday excursion, whence , they had returned to Pantin full of health and spirits. They wire driven in a hackney-coach to the place which had, without doubt, been selected beforehand as that at which they were to meet their doom The mother and two of the children alighted from the hackney-Coach, and were esco—Aed tO a. short, but as the murderers deenteid,-it safe distance, where they must have been set upon and butchered under circumstance of indesetibable and almost inconceivable barbarity. When these had been  been dispatched, one qf ,the assassins fetched the three children who remained in the fiacre and then, eold blood, and with 4 sealed purpose in Xs heart, he most have taken them ,to the spot where the mangled remains of the earl* victims bkir: There, after committing three new crimes, he and his confederates must Nave• huddled the six bodies into one hastily made 1,-rave,.in the fortunately unfounded expectation that the piled up earth would effectually conceal this series of bloody deeds. It is difficult to ,speak too strongly of the intense and painfiii. excitement which these murders have occasioned. Within a short distance of the second of European capitals, virtually within its suburban district, and actually within the hearing of men upon whose ears the cry for help ought not to have fallen in vain, Madame Kinck and her five children lost their lives in an unequal struggle with miscreants by whom they were overmatched, • alike in offensive weapons and in power to use them. For it Is unhappily only too certain that they had ample time and opportunity to • realise to the last degree the •danger that threatened them, and that in the case of the mother, and one, at least, of her children, the murderers' purpose was only accomplished after a stubborn, though unavailing resistance. No wonder that as the two carts bearing the bodies passed along the Rue Rivoli, their trail marked with the dropping of the blood which trickled from still warm corpses, sonic inkling of the Story connected with so unusual an appearance became current among the frequenters of that gay and busy thoroughfare, freezing their veins, *aiding a , thrill through every heart, and awakening deep emotions in a population not over much given to serious jeflection. No wonder either that the entrance to the Morgue was thronged by sightseers accustomed to look upon the faces of those who have met with violent and premature deaths in the most pleasure-loving of continental cities, morbidly anxious • to feast their eyes upon a spectacle almost unprecedented even in that repertory of suicide and assassination.  It is not surprising that the fate of the Kinck family should constitute the all-engrossing topic of Parisian conversation, so that even the Emperor's health, and his possible abdication, are for the moment forgotten in the general feeling of alarm and insecurity which the commission of this atrocious crime, at such a place, and under such circumstances, is only too well fitted to engender. One solitary consolation remains. The mystery which at first shrouded the affair promises to be speedily cleared up. The police have already arrested two person's, strengly suspected as having been guilty of this molastrous crime. As effecting the accused, the moral enormity of the offence is greatly aggravated by the fact that_ one is the husband and father, the other the son and brother, of the Murdered persons. - But as regards the safety of society, it is in some measure reassuring to believe that the deceased were killed, not by professional criminals, who would make war inditerently upon any one by Whose death they might gain more or less booty, but by members Of their own family, Whose intentions they would be slow to suspect until resistance was vain and escape was hopeless. Of the criminals' motives we hear nothing except that there had been a domestic difference about moving from Roubaix to Aimee, about as flimsy a grievance as was ever nursed into occasion for a serious, not to say a deadly, quarrel. It is, however, in some sort satisfactory to knew that justice has not lagged on leaden feet, and that within a very short period the time when the fact of the murder was diseovered its real or presumed perpetrators were in custody, and the 'question of their guilt or innocence- in train for searching investigation and authoritative decision.