Manitoba Farmers – Historic Double Murder Trial
Continuing on with the Brandon Manitoba held double murder trial – it appeared that under cross examination that in actuality witnesses could not absolute provide proof that the black coloured notebook in question – could not actually be proved certain that it was indeed the property or even had been in the possession of Mr. Gordon.
Next a new witness was presented to the court. An American soldier named , T.J. Sears, who it was recorded had been stationed as a soldier at Fort Meade. It turned out that Gordon himself was the assistant galley cook under soldier Sears. Sears went on to testify , under oath, that Mr. Walker testified that Mr. Gordon had volunteered in conversations that he had “got into trouble” with two farmers in Manitoba when he had bought a farm from one farmer and animal stock from the other Manitoba farmer. It was later claimed in the newspaper “The Telegram”, after the trial ended , that an article in the newspaper claimed that Gordon had actually told and confessed to Sears that he had in actuality murdered the two “Manitoba farmers”.
Whether this was true or newsman’s license to sensationalize after the fact – no one will ever know.
