After inquiring into this story, the Brest police had the woman arrested, and charged her with the murder of her younger son and with the attempted murder of the elder boy. She showed no emotion, but calmly denied the charges. Beyond a confrontation of mother and son on the cliff where the crimes are supposed to have been committed, the inquiry had not advanced. Now a woman of Saint Brieuc has come forward with the claim that the dead body washed up at Porspoder three years ago is that of her son, who was a cabin boy on board an English vessel which had been wrecked. The police authorities have decided that the two mothers shall attend at the Porspoder cemetery, where the body will be disinterred for the second time. behind him who keeps a better man out of office."'—'Boston Evening Transcript."
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