A.J. Jackson 1875 John True Gordon. Rockland, Maine Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm John True Gordon was convicted of killing his brother and his whole family over a bad reaction to a lost inheritance to his brother. The family was brutally murdered with an axe and then a fire was set to the property. John True Gordon was arrested on weak evidence of bloody clothes and suspicious emotional behavior during the proceeding investigation and was sentenced to the gallows. He proclaimed innocence all the way to his death. He tried to commit suicide the day of his execution, but failed to succeed and was dragged to the gallows where he died. A fellow inmate later confessed to the murders thus driving a further spike into the temperament surrounding the abolishment of the death penalty.
On the back of the cdv is a consent that the photograph bears his likeness.
