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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: physical conformation, were present in the corpse, placing its
identity beyond question. This second post-mortem revealed
furthermore an injury to the thyroid cartilage of the larynx that
had been inflicted beyond any doubt whatever, declared Dr.
Lacassagne, before death.
There was little reason to doubt that Gouffe had been the
victim of murder by strangulation.
But by whom had the crime been committed? It was now the end of
November. Four months had passed since the bailiff's murder, and
the police had no clue to its perpetrators. At one time a friend
of Gouffe's had been suspected and placed under arrest, but he
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