Montreal's Top 10 gangland murders: # 6 The hammer death of Rocky Pierson

  Rocky Pierson, a gruff and stocky former boxer, was as tough as nails and epic crew leader who could knock off banks, win elections or get you someone disappeared.
   That is, until 26 June, 1961 when three of his partners in crime snuck up on him and killed him with a hammer in his office on Chambly Road in Longueuil.
   A fourth, Frank Watson, was a police informant, however. When he arrived in the room the others asked to talk to him. He figured that he had been outed and was ready for his buddies to kill him too.
   But instead, they asked the informant Watson to give Pierson a bang with the hammer so he too would be implicated.
   Watson later said that Pierson, was already dead on the bathroom floor at his office on the South Shore when he struck him. 

  Watson told cops about the killing but it took two years for them to finally arrest the three who committed the grisly betrayal: Rosaire Daoust, Armand Larose and Raymond Caza.
   A well-publicized trial ensued but none of the killers served time for the mutiny.
    



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