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lUUrLt MliKUbKbU,SON, 40, IS HELDIPutnam Man Charged With Stabbing Parents Is Placed In Insane HospitalPUTNAM. April 24.—(AP) In a j double stabbing that shocked this small textile manufacturing city, a couple were slain and their 40-year- j old epileptic son admitted the mur- j ders. He was sent to a hospital for the insane.Police summoned to the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Beausoleil yes- f te.rday afternoon found Mr. Beau- 1 soleil lying dead on the kitchen floor. Mrs. Beausoleils’ body was . on a couch in an adjoining room. ' Each had been stabbed with a bread knife.The Beausoleils. each 73 years old. had celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last week.! Chief of Police Henry P. Mar-hurin said that Charles Beausoleil. one of the couple’s nine sons and daughters, screamed, “I killed them—I killed them.” when investigators began questioning him at headquarters. •After being held for several hours. Beausoleil was taken to the Norwich State hospital on an emergency commftment. Such a commitment provides for his con-(Continued on Page Forty-two)
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Bridgeport Post
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Thu, Apr 24, 1952
Page 3
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