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In this forbidding jail at St. Joseph de Beauce, Lucille Boucher was kept in the cell which eight years ago housed a woman who murdered her husband by a combination of arsenic, witchcraft
In this forbidding jail at St. Joseph de Beauce, Lucille Boucher was kept in the cell which eight years ago housed a woman who murdered her husband by a combination of arsenic, witchcraft

In this forbidding jail at St. Joseph de Beauce, Lucille Boucher was kept in the cell which eight years ago housed a woman who murdered her husband by a combination of arsenic, witchcraft

Date1/13/1947
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Original Toronto Star caption: In this forbidding jail at St. Joseph de Beauce; Lucille Boucher was kept in the cell which eight years ago housed a woman who murdered her husband by a combination of arsenic; witchcraft
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0011356F
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