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Marthe , deceived by the apparent friendliness of Lechesneau and the public prosecutor , who assured her that complete confession could alone save her husband 's life , admitted that the cavern where the senator had been hidden was known only to her husband and the Messieurs de Simeuse and d'Hauteserre , and that she herself had taken provisions to the senator on three separate occasions at midnight . Laurence , questioned about the cavern , was forced to acknowledge that Michu had discovered it and had shown it to her at the time when the four young men evaded the police and were hidden in it . As soon as these preliminary examinations were ended , the jury , lawyers , and audience were notified that the trial would be resumed . At three o'clock the president opened the session by announcing that the case would be continued under a new aspect . He exhibited to Michu three bottles of wine and asked him if he recognized them as bottles from his own cellar , showing him at the same time the identity between the green wax on two empty bottles with the green wax on a full bottle taken from his cellar that morning by the justice of peace in presence of his wife . Michu refused to recognize anything as his own . But these proofs for the prosecution were understood by the jurors , to whom the president explained that the empty bottles were found in the place where the senator was imprisoned .