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Google Streetview picture taken in August, 2012, showing the scene of Alfred Bonenfant's fatal accident. The small brown brick building in the centre of the picture is the Banque de Montréal (see pictures on page 12).

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3 Chaudières Bridge, Gatineau, QC, Google Street View (photo taken August 2012). Rotate picture to the left to see view as shown.

Last Trip: The Death of Alfred Bonenfant / 13

The Witnesses

George Duncan's first instinct was to stop the horse but he was unable to catch it and the cab disappeared down Rue du Pont toward Ottawa. He then ran to Alfred Bonenfant who was unconscious and bleeding from a serious cut along his jaw.

Duncan loosened the victim's collar and heard him breathing heavily. When Louis Boileau and some others came along Duncan hurried away to telephone a doctor.

Louis Boileau was the brother of Emile, the man who stopped the first runaway. Like Duncan he had been only a few feet away from the accident and his report of what he saw tallied with Duncan's.

Boileau noticed that a beer bottle had rolled out of Bonenfant's coat pocket, spilling its contents. He picked up the bottle and set it on the pile of lumber. Unaware that Duncan had already done so, he then ran back toward the Ottawa House to phone for a doctor.