The horrible thing that happened at this house near the Montreal conference centre

   Raymond Trudeau, 6, lived nearby what is now the west side of the Palais des Congres in downtown Anderston Street neighbourhood when he was lured into the home of Lucien Picard at 267 Lagauchetiere W., murdered and dismembered.
    The little boy had gone to visit his father David Trudeau, 34, at work nearby to ask him to buy an ice cream on July 27, 1954 but his father said it was too close to dinnertime so the boy walked home.  
   That's when Lucien Picard, 43, a 4'11" unemployed machinist from Quebec City with a Charlie Chaplin mustache, who lived in the rooming house, kidnapped the boy.
   On trial Picard said he strangled the boy when he started to scream in his room.
   He went drinking afterwards and cut up the body the next day, a Friday, while drunk.
   A witness found body parts in a cardboard box in a garbage on the morning of July 27. 

  Police arrested Picard on the lam in Quebec City.
   Picard was found guilty and hanged at 12:30 a.m. at Bordeaux prison on Feb. 11, 1955.
   A year later Picard's roommate Charles St. Laurent, 40, was found guilty of "gross indecency" involving youngsters. Municipal Court Judge Pascal Lachapelle sentenced to three yeras in prison, calling St. Laurent "the author of grave and repugnant crimes and a definite menace to society." It was a rare occasion when a municipal court judge sent a defendant to penitentiary as criminal courts usually handled such things. St. Laurent had moved to 2097 St. Andre by this point.