From the archives: Death sentence united community
This story was first published on Aug. 24, 2013, in the Montreal Gazette.
Just who said precisely what to whom would have been hard enough at the time to determine, and today, more than a century later, is an impossible task. But when it was all over, one man lay dead and another was behind bars, facing a charge of murder.
Antonio Giaccone had immigrated from Italy about a decade before and was living on Rue Notre-Dame, not far from where Maison Radio-Canada now stands. Some sources suggest he w
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