Human vampire’s last hug
PA La Tuque (Canada) As 150 people watched In horror, “Le Grand Melvin,” a 25-year-old entertainer who dressed as a vampire and performed morbid acts, was strangled to death by his boa constrictor at a nightclub yesterday. Melvin, whose real name was Jean-Guy Leclair, was going .hrough his act with the snake at the Club Latuquois in La Tuque which is 210 kilometres north of Montreal. He seemed to miss a reflex and the boa wrapped around his neck, said Gaetan Grenon, manager of the cabaret. Mr Grenon said that when he noticed Leclair becoming blue in the face he caUed the police, who arrived within minutes. They ran to the stage, and, as four police officers struggled to free Leclair from the snake, Mr Grenon cut off its head with a knife. “It wasn’t a pleasant thing to have to do, but I had little choice,’ he said. But Le Grand Melvin was already dead.
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Press, 22 August 1978, Page 1
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