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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: cord of her dressing gown and, unseen by him, attach one end of
it to the swivel of the rope held by Eyraud. Her accomplice had
only to give a strong pull and the bailiff's course was run.[17]
[17] One writer on the case has suggested that the story of the
murder by rope and pulley was invented by Eyraud and Bompard to
mitigate the full extent of their guilt, and that the bailiff was
strangled while in bed with the woman. But the purchase of the
necessary materials in London would seem to imply a more
practical motive for the use of rope and pulley.
At six o'clock Eyraud and Bompard dined together, after
which Eyraud returned to the apartment, whilst Bompard went to
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