The horrifying thing discovered on St. Dominique near Mount Royal in 1935

Benny Bronstein, 9, shows a photographer where he made the gruesome discovery. The empty lot sat on land now occupied by the condos in the background

   Benny Bronstein was playing with his friend Keith on a Wednesday afternoon after school on 13 March 1935 when they came across something disturbing.
   The boys were frolicking and romping on St. Dominique just north of Mount Royal when Bronstein, 9, and little Keith ventured into an empty lot on the west side where a young woman, aged about 25, screamed at them to get out and chased them away with a stick.
   The boys found it unusual that the hostile woman was underdressed on the chilly afternoon so they ventured back the next day to the same spot.
   When they got to the empty lot that Thursday evening they found a dead infant covered in blood. The infant appeared to have been stabbed to death.
   The kids alerted their parents, who in turn alerted police.
   Cops determined that the baby, aged about 15 days, had been stabbed in the head and in the side and dumped into the lot
   There was no word on what became of the woman who presumably killed the baby.
   But we have a clue about one of the boys who made the gruesome discovery.
   Keith Person, or Parsons, as his name was reported, was mostly likely correctly named Keith Pierson, who grew up on St. Dominique and became a legendary gangster that has been cited frequently on Coolopolis and in an upcoming book on the West End Gang.