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Counsel for the defence had pleaded insanity. How else was this strange crime to be accounted for?
One morning, in the reeds near Chaton, two bodies had been found locked in each other's arms, those of a man and his wife. They were a couple well known in society, wealthy, no longer young, and only married the previous year, the woman having lost her first husband three years before.