In one part of his letter, Landru lays stress on the smallness of the kitchen range in which he was alleged to have burnt the remains of his victims, and he remarks that M. Godefroy would have found himself in a very difficult position if the jury had seen the inside of the grate and the space, "not much larger than a soldier's mess-tin,'"* which was supposed to have answered the purposes of a crematopium, but he did not want to ada to M. Godefroy's perplexities by dwelling on this point. "When 1 was brought back into the coi and knew that I was condemned, the letter continues. "I was curious
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