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Mortimer turned up at midnight, since he’d now seen through the whole thing, and he threatened to kill me unless I took over Pietr’s place completely …
‘So as to be rid of everybody! Myself included! … I’d had enough! … All I had in my mind was what my brother would call a Russian idea – to die with Berthe, in each other’s arms …’
On … 19 November … at 10 p.m. verified, an individual by the name of Hans Johannson, born Pskov, Russian Empire, of Estonian nationality, unemployed, residing at Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, Paris, after confessing to the murder of his brother, Pietr Johannson, on … November of the same year in the train Étoile du Nord, took his own life by shooting himself in the mouth shortly after his arrest in Fécamp by Detective Chief Inspector Maigret of the Flying Squad. The 6 mm bullet traversed the palate and lodged in the brain. Death was instantaneous. As a precaution the body has been taken to the morgue.
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The male nurses left, but not before Madame Maigret had treated them to a glass of plum liqueur, which she made herself every year on her summer holiday back home in the country in Alsace.
Before having his operation he’d been to see Anna twice, at the Saint-Lazare prison. The first time she had clawed his face. The second time she had given him information that led to the immediate arrest at his lodgings in Bagnolet of Pepito Moretto, the murderer of Torrence and José Latourie.
