Monday, January 14, 2013

Georges Marcotte - where a killer lived

 The Santa Claus robbery killer Georges Marcotte who lived in this building at 1422 Visitation.  

7 comments:

  1. Bill B12:04 pm

    Pretty sure it was where George Marcotte was arrested, he killed police officers Brabant and Marineau in December of 62 in Ville St-Laurent, AKA Santa Claus killer.

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  2. I'll go with one of the 'Bluebird cafe/Wagon wheel' firebombers: Gilles Eccles, James O’Brien and Jean-Marc Boutin

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  3. I'm with Bill on this one. Bluebird was 40 years ago (1972)

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  4. Who lived here?

    https://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ll=45.519278,-73.562382&spn=0.000008,0.004823&t=m&z=18&layer=c&cbll=45.519226,-73.562273&panoid=8xBx5_HzNtT6DOMBvhZZAQ&cbp=12,262.28,,0,2.7

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  5. Frank Controni lived at 1840 St. Timothee, south of Ontario St., back in mid-50s.

    See Gazette for July 25, 1956, page 18, column entitled:

    "Five Men Deny Assault..."

    Street view:

    https://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ll=45.519278,-73.562382&spn=0.000008,0.004823&t=m&z=18&layer=c&cbll=45.519226,-73.562273&panoid=8xBx5_HzNtT6DOMBvhZZAQ&cbp=12,262.28,,0,2.7

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  6. Good one Urban. Where else did he live?

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  7. I haven't dug any deeper about Mr. Cotroni, but I often run into articles about him when scanning through the mid-50s Gazette archives.

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