The Mysterious Dr. Bossieux January 29, 2021 Illustration by Iain Duffus On May 31, 1931, Helen Love Bossieux boarded a Broad Street trolley, riding with its windows open. When it stopped at Third Street, her ears picked up a familiar cough. She peered out to see her husband, Carlton Lee Bossieux, who had been missing for five years. He sat smoking at the wheel of an automobile. Shocked by the sight of him, Helen scrambled from the streetcar to scribble the license plate number. Then, trembling, she delivered the note with the license number, a desertion warrant from 1929 and a newspaper clipping with his picture in it to the Second Precinct station.