25 SEPTEMBER 1869, Page 3

A very extraordinary and wholesale murder—of a lady and her

'five children, the lady herself being with child, so that, in fact, seven lives were extinguished—took place in the immediate out- skirts of Paris, at a little place called Pantin, on the Northern Railway, last Sunday evening. A workman on Monday morning, soon after dawn, noticing some blood on the ground, and seeing a rag coming through it, put in his spade, and turned up a newly- buried body,—on which in a fright he ran for the police. The new- made grave was dug up, and there were produced from it six bodies, the mother's and five children, the eldest of them—a lad, who seemed to have made a fierce struggle for his family by the multitude of wounds on his body,—being over 16. The youngest -child was 3, and its body was so warm when found that it be- eame certain that the burial had not been long completed. The hands of the younger children were still grasping sausages and bread, as if they had been murdered too -suddenly even to change their momentary attitude. The buttons of the boys' coats were stamped with the name of a maker of Roubaix. The murder is at present attri- buted to a man of the name of Muck, of Roubaix—supposed by some to be the lady's eldest son—aged about 20, who engaged a room at the hotel of the Northern Railway some days before the -murder, saying he was an engineer, that he should have night- -work to do, and should want to sleep in the day. The lady ;inquired for this man, and did not find him at his hotel on the Sunday evening, went out with her children and never returned. It is also ascertained that a man of the same external -appearance bought a shovel and a pickaxe on Sunday evening,— with which it is supposed he dug the grave. There is a rumour -that some one is in custody,—said to be the murdered lady's -husband. Her person, which had a watch, jewellery, and some money on it, had not been robbed. The sudden extermination of .a- large family is quite a new form of murder.