Jean BOULIN dit LEVEILLE
Found Guilty of Murder

Memoires de la Societe Genealogique Essay on Dr. Etienne Bouchard
"At the request of M. d'Ailleboust (governor of Montreal), Etienne Bouchard was to make a official report the 20 May 1669, after the medical examination of one named Simon Galbrun, found assasinated in a street in
Montreal.

"Bouchard was not finished with his adventures in that affair, because he was found the 7 september 1671, at the arrest of the woman Du Verger, condemned to death for murder, abortion, etc., etc. She had married Simon Galbrun the 18 november 1659 in Montreal. Following her widowhood she remarried a second time the 29 june 1671, also in Montreal, to Jean Boutin dit Leveille.

"Francoise Du Verger was accused of "having taken care of herself on three occassions at different times & with different drugs to make her lose her fruit", and finally of having given birth, killed her infant and immediately buried it the day after her marriage to the said Boutin. Also of having been accessory to the murder of her first husband, Simon Galbrun. Found guilty, she was conducted to Quebec as well as Laliberte, soldier of the Company of the Sieur Dugue, in order "to enforce the matter" because there was no high
executioner in Montreal.

"The papers included the report of the surgeon Bouchard, written up at the time of the discovery of the body of Galbrun, as well as the statement of Francoise Du Verger, accusing the soldier Laliberte of being the murderer of her first husband. At the trial of the accused in Quebec things became complicated, the woman Du Verger was cunning & had plenty of tricks up her sleeve. She pretended to be about two months pregnant. Nevertheless she was condemned 'to be hung & strangled, that her body would be exhibited on the gallows which would be put on the Cap aux Diamants etc.,...' but a reprieve was accorded until the end of october in order that she "would be examined to learn if she was about two months pregnant as she said in which case she would be reprieved until she had delivered.

"In november 1671 a report was submitted by the Sieur Bonnamour doctor of medicine and Roussel, surgeon, attesting that the said Du Verger had been questioned and had "been examined" by Dame Morin, midwife, and that she was not "pregnant". Conclusion, the Council ordained that the sentence of 7 september would be fully executed on the person of the said Du Verger.
Actually, both Francoise and her new husband, Jean Boulin; "were found guilty, keel-hauled on a ship in Quebec harbor, and their quartered bodies thrown in the river".

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