The 1935 murder of architect Francis Mawson Rattenbury, world famous for his design of the iconic Parliament Buildings and Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, and the arrest and lurid trial of his thirty years younger second wife, Alma, and the family chauffeur, George Percy Stoner, her lover, who was half her age, riveted people. The lovers were tried together - a trial that became one of the twentieth century's most sensational cases, sparking widespread debate over sexual mores and social strata distinctions
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