Did you know that it was customary for the rope used to hang a convict sentenced to death to be cut into multiple small pieces and sold as a souvenir?

This piece of rope is therefore a bit of the rope used to hang Alexandre Lavallée, age 73, convicted of murdering his own daughter.

This sad and tragic story was chronicled in the newspapers.

In the absence of her husband, Louis de Vaudreuil, Rose Anna Lavallée was brutally attacked and killed on August 10, 1926, by her father, Alexandre, who lived with them in Saint-Étienne-des-Grès.

It was the coroner, Dr. Henri Beaulac, who conducted the initial crime scene investigation.

Lavallée stood trial and benefited from the services of a lawyer. Found guilty, the assassin was sentenced to death by Judge F. X. Lacoursière.

One year after this terrible and gruesome event, almost to the day, Lavallée was hanged on August 12, 1927, in the Trois-Rivières prison yard.

Musée Pierre-Boucher Collection
1977 260 H