A_remarkable case in the annals of French crime investigation is occupying the attention of the Brest police authorities. The problem confronting them is to find proof that a widow named Niquet, who has been under arrest' since August, was responsible for the death of her six-year-old son, and, if the necessary evidence is forthcoming to secure a conviction, 1 deter: rine the motive which led her to commit the crime. It is a strange story, not without complications, for it is a case of two mothers claiming the body of a boy washed up by the sea, the exhumation of the body after three years, and tac confrontation of the two mothers in the cemetery.
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