THE PANTIN TRAGEDY.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 644, 5 March 1870, Page 3

THE PANTIN TRAGEDY.

The trial of Traupmann for the murder of the Kinck family was commenced at Paris on Tuesday, 28th December. Great excitement prevailed, and the court was crowded. Upon a large table in front of the Judges were spread out the various pieces de conviction which were to be used against the prisoner. The clothes of each victim were placed separately, and in spite of the precautions taken, are reported to have been unsavoury. This exhibition of silk dresses, little boots and hats, and a bit of broad and sausage, which one of the Kinck children was eating when it was struck down by the murderer, created a painful impression. Alongside of these relics were ranged the various instruments employed by Traup- , mann in killing and burying his victims. The prisoner himself is described as " a small, slight, and juvenile-looking man, with a thin, wearied kind of face, not very pale. His look was rather timid than otherwise, owing, perhaps, to the fact of such a crowd gazing at him, and his eyes seemed to seek out the members of the jury." During the reading of the indictment he evinced hardly any emotion, and appeared to listen with the utmost indifference to the most terrible part of his crimes — the killing of Madan » Kinck and her two younger children. He persisted in stating that the elder Kinck was concerned with him in the forgery affair, and Jean Kinck was poisoned by one of their accomplices, and that he himself did nothing. There are sixtythree witnesses to be examined. On 30th December, the prisoner was cordemned to death. The sentence of death passed upon Traupmann called forth an outburst of applause among the spectators, which was, however, speedily suppressed. The condemned himself did -not show " the slightest sign of feeling. He bowed to the jury unaffectedly, and was silent on his way from the court to the Conciergerie. Upon re-entering his cell he did not display the same gaiety as on the previous evenings, and could hardly stifle a certain emotion. He took no nourishment, with the exception of a glass of wine.