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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: the Morgue. The boy was able, by the clothes, to identify the
body as that of his late mistress. The Commissary went straight
to the shops in the Rue de la Republique, where he found the
young lovers preparing for flight. At first they denied all
knowledge of the crime, and said that Madame Boyer had gone to
Montpellier. They were arrested, and it was not long before they
both confessed their guilt to the examining magistrate.
Vitalis and Marie Boyer were tried before the Assize Court at Aix
on July 2, 1877. Vitalis is described as mean and insignificant
in appearance, thin, round-backed, of a bilious complexion; Marie
Boyer as a pretty, dark girl, her features cold in expression,
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