Marie-Onged Robertide's Trial

Marie-Onged Robertide was acquitted of attempted suicide in the Jayal Bear case. Police were able to identify her because a man came forward and said she was his sister, Marguerite Peter. She denied that she ever tried to kill herself and said that she'd actually gone to hospital for a completely different reason. J.L. Bair Gay had already tipped her off, arriving at her house in a panic waving a copy of the latest newspaper. He pointed to an article by Edmund Shasse that announced the police were looking for a woman in black. The Crown prosecutor would describe him as having the gall of a canal horse during closing arguments. A detective working on the case