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Two clippings on the death of 10-year-old George Verity (Dec 1873 – July 1884).
His memorial card can be viewed in our Archive, here.

Quarter-plate, circa 1863 tintype of a little boy photographed outside, holding a tinted flower. Shown in its original thermoplastic case, behind decorated brass mat and cover glass. You can view the entire image outside of its case on our website.

Additional views of Ellen Rose. See more on our website or on our Patreon.

Born in Alsace in 1848, Jean-Baptiste Troppmann’s lethality led him to the guillotine at the tender age of 22. In 1869 he hooked up with Jean Kinck with who he planned to set up a counterfeiting operation. However, Jean-Baptiste had a different get rich quick scheme in mind. As the two travelled to Herrenfluch to survey a site for their money printing plant, Troppman fed his partner a lethal dose of prussic acid mixed in wine.

Once Mr. Kinck was out of the way, Jean-Baptiste wired to his wife asking her for money. Mrs. Kinck, believing Jean-baptiste was acting in behalf of her husband, sent him a check allong with her. Unable to cash the money, he arranged a meeting with the wife in Paris and, having no more use for the boy, hacked him into to pieces.

On September 1869, Hortense Kinck met Troppman in Paris and gave him 55,000 francs thinking that they were for her husband. Once he had the money in his pocket he butchered Mrs. Kinck and her remaining five children in a remote spot near the Pantin Common.

The next day the bloodbath was uncovered by a workman who uncovered the mutilated remains of Hortense and her children. More charges were added against Troppman once the bodies of Gustave and Jean Kinck were unearthed. Jean-Baptiste was sentenced to death for the eight killings and, on January 19, 1870 — at the tender age of 22 — he was guillotined.

Large (20″ x 16″) charcoal and oil portrait of an older man holding a deceased boy, presumably grandfather and grandson. Date estimate is 1895-1905. A closer view can be seen on our website.