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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: Bompard." She was accompanied by a middle-aged gentleman, who
appeared to be devoted to her. Gabrielle Bompard and her friend
were taken to the private room of M. Loze, the Prefect of
Police. There, in a half-amused way, without the least concern,
sitting at times on the edge of the Prefect's writing-table,
Gabrielle Bompard told how she had been the unwilling accomplice
of her lover, Eyraud, in the murder of the bailiff, Gouffe.
The crime, she stated, had been committed in No. 3 in the Rue
Tronson-Ducoudray, but she had not been present; she knew nothing
of it but what had been told her by Eyraud. After the murder she
had accompanied him to America; there they had met the middle-
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