Did Raoul drink here? Mtl's biggest mystery

So do you believe in Raoul? 

  Do you believe that the mysterious man described by assassin James Earl Ray met him in this bar in 1967 and instructed him to murder Martin Luther King?

   This bar on Common St. was, according to Ray, the place where a chain of events began that would lead to one of the great tragedies of the 20th century, the murder of Martin Luther King Junior. 

  James Earl Ray was living in Montreal after having escaped a Missouri jail. 

   He claims that he was approached by a smallish red haired guy named Raoul who proceeded to persuade him to enact him a series of events that culminated with the murder of King. Did Raoul really exist? It has been endlessly debated since. 

   The slain civil rights leader had a son Dexter who eventually got to know Ray and he ended up believing the story about Raoul. The bar was called the Neptune Tavern back then. It was around at least since 1947, according to this Time magazine article. 

   It was a rowdy place full of drinking sailors. When the sailors left the port it became a gay club that launched an international association called the Neptune Club. Now it's part of a hotel, called Cafe Helios, run by a nice Greek guy who leaves it closed most of the time. I think somebody should turn it back into a real hard drinking place full of sailing paraphernalia..