Friday, January 8, 2010

Tousignant Murder

Back in the early 60's ('63)  a local Grocer who was well liked was murdered on his way to make a night deposit across from his store, he was shot twice & robbed of $2000.

 Here's the story from the Montreal Gazette:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FJ4tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oJ8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6766,3856763&dq=verdun+tousignant&hl=en

                Use the 'Full Screen' mode & then scroll ...........   HF&RV

               ..also if you click on the photo,it will enlarge it enough to read the sign ,Tousignant & Freres,.........this was the original storefront from a '44 photo...

2 comments:

Les F said...

Read the story right below the Tousignant story , a man was charged with impaired driving,....that is rare,even the term impaired driving is used in the story..just scroll below the main story.......
HF&RV

Les F said...

more on the Tousignant murder, of course the creep decides to plee not guilty........don't they all.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6zgjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Jp4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6651,4203183&dq=verdun+tousignant&hl=en

HF&RV