“She had been his companion on motorcycle rides,” wrote The Evening Call. She did carpentry work, painted walls, for a small wage and housing. The love affair began when Oakley, a 39-year-old widow with a 15-year-old daughter, started helping him with his houses. Oakley and Cassavant knew each other for about seven years and had been “practically husband and wife,” according to a Providence Journal article from the time. It ends with three poisoned cream puffs, Vadeboncoeur dead, Cassavant paralyzed, and Oakley in prison. The tale begins with a couple - Hattie Esther Oakley and Henry Cassavant. 26 1916 - 101 years ago this week - twists and surprises like a mystery novel. The story of Woonsocket’s “Cream Puff Murder” on Jan. Alamand Vadeboncoeur was the unintended victim of an act of revenge gone badly - dead at 28 years old from a poisoned puff pastry. As a young man, newly married in 1916, he witnessed his brother-in-law die. “It doesn’t lead to anything good.”Ĭhester Leon Laplant, her father, had reason for concern. When finding out a friend was cheating on his girlfriend or wife, “he’d sigh and say ‘Let’s not get into that again,’” Belisle recalled over the phone Wednesday. Elaine Belisle’s father had sage advice for philandering husbands.
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