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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 292, 14 December 1869, Page 2

~ ;..- IStear Paris a most horrible trugedy has been enacted — a whole family, mother and six children, fiaving been, murdered in the most cold-blooded and deliberate manner. De Quincey would have .quoted this, as a striking instance of Murder raised to the dignity of one of the Fine Arts; 'for the coolness and energy of the. murderer N-were extraordinary. The murder; both in its .and execution, wilL always rark amongst the first illustrations of the art ; ami, indeed, for , completeness and daring, is also unmatched in the records of crime. The murderer, Traupmann, is barely 2O,3reara of age but has.long been noted i ;i for his extraordinary strength and ' daring. He had become intimate with a family named Einck, well-to-do people at Roubaix, in French Flanders, and he appears to Kave deliberately concocted a plan for murdering the whole family, and then possessing himself, by personation; and fraud, of , all the property they possessed. He was favored in this scheme by the oesire of the father to leave . JKoubaix, and settle at Alsace. This Jean Kinck, ' the fether did leave his home, and. has not since --rbeen- : heard- of; but Traupmann, in all probability, could account for his whereabouts, *s shortly afterwards the latter wrote from Paris, in the name of Kinck, to Roubaix, instructing the mother to come to Paris, and bring her fl femily with her, for the purpose of settling at I; Pantin. ■",■• A son, Gustave Einck, who was not withhis mother at Roubaix, was also telegraphed for in the name of his father, to come to Paris. who afterwards met the . mother and her five v persuaded them ; to go with him in a cab' -jr;^th«ml;'V-mjiuPdeafed : .'' thcnji,ti* iwie^-jHiStl? the other; :^;<flTOW:i^m;»,.Md;'cbyeredithem';ip, some; of ?th^ while UyingJ His intention evidently was ;:^jblaveM of the .• ; ?fiunUyS,'by vfepprtingV- tiiai;|th'ey'':had'/gone;-Vto'' : ;^?!4Bienca''; '"and^iajßberVard* 1 '..-^)^. luive > returnedi' . Gustave, arid - have /^^tained^possese- ■: ;-:£4pop:'Or';; ; .j6soo6,: -; ' | ibfwhich (te elderK^ ;