IS IT POSSIBLE TO MISTAKE A STATION WAGON FOR A JEEP WHETHER IT BE OF DARK COLOR OR YELLOW?
LORNE PATTERSON CORROBORATES THE TESTIMONY THAT WILBERT COFFIN’S MOTHER GAVE BEFORE THE BROSSARD COMMISSION. LET’S RECALL THAT HER SON WILBERT HAD TOLD HER THAT HE HAD SEEN A STATION WAGON. READ AGAIN COFFIN’S MOTHER TESTIMONY THAT I POSTED ON MY BLOG ON THE 21/05/08.
READ ALSO THIS INTERESTING EXCERPT FROM THE BROSSARD REPORT AND NOTE THE INACCURACIES THAT JUSTICE BROSSARD FOUND IN THE ENGLISH VERSION OF JACQUES HÉBERT'S BOOK AS WELL AS IN BELLIVEAU’S THE COFFIN MURDER CASE.
LORNE PATTERSON CORROBORATES THE TESTIMONY THAT WILBERT COFFIN’S MOTHER GAVE BEFORE THE BROSSARD COMMISSION. LET’S RECALL THAT HER SON WILBERT HAD TOLD HER THAT HE HAD SEEN A STATION WAGON. READ AGAIN COFFIN’S MOTHER TESTIMONY THAT I POSTED ON MY BLOG ON THE 21/05/08.
READ ALSO THIS INTERESTING EXCERPT FROM THE BROSSARD REPORT AND NOTE THE INACCURACIES THAT JUSTICE BROSSARD FOUND IN THE ENGLISH VERSION OF JACQUES HÉBERT'S BOOK AS WELL AS IN BELLIVEAU’S THE COFFIN MURDER CASE.
NEXT WEEK, WE’LL HAVE A LOOK AT THE JEEP SEEN BY DR. AND MRS. E. W. WILSON
(A literal translation by Clément Fortin)
REPORT OF THE BROSSARD COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY INTO THE COFFIN AFFAIR (27TH OF NOVEMBER 1964)
VOL. 1 CHAPTER 5 (Part VIII)
THE JEEP WHOSE PRESENCE IN THE GASPÉ PENINSULA AND IN THE VICINITY WOULD HAVE BEEN « SEEN » BY EYE WITNESSES AT THE TIME THE CRIMES WERE COMMITTED.
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THE WOULD-BE JEEP THAT LORNE J. PATTERSON MIGHT HAVE SEEN. (Continuation from page 161 of the Brossard Report)
Mr. Lorne J. Patterson has testified before this Commission that :
One day in early June, around seven o’clock in the morning, a station-wagon whose colour he does not remember and that was bearing American licence plates stopped at his garage; it only had one passenger, a man weighing around 170 pounds with grey hair who told him that he was going salmon fishing on the St. Jean river; this man named no one.
It is impossible that he mistook a station-wagon for a jeep.
He has never seen a yellow jeep with two Americans.
He has never told anyone that someone in a jeep of this type would have inquired about other persons of the name of Lindsey.
At the request of Mrs. Albert Coffin, he went to Percé at the time of the trial, but he was not called by anyone as a witness.
He knew Mrs. Coffin for several years, but has never met Wilbert.
He thinks that it is rather Leslie who called him on behalf of his mother, Mrs. Coffin.
At his arrival (at Percé), he was interviewed by Mtre Maher; several weeks before, he had seen Mtre Maher at his garage; Mtre Maher had asked him if there was a good road leading to Murdochville coming from Rivière Madeleine where Patterson’s garage was located. On this occasion, Mtre Maher did not inquire at all about a jeep. He only saw him once more, at Percé.
At Percé, he spoke not only to Mtre Maher but also to Mrs. Coffin.
Mtre Maher questioned him about a yellow jeep and he (Patterson) told him (Maher) that he never had seen one before nor since then.
After the morning interview, Mtre Maher did not speak to him anymore.
After having learned that the trial was over, he returned home.
He has known, however, a man by the name of Hackett who may be John Hackett, but he has not seen him for several years.
He does not know a contractor by the name of John Hackett.
He denies having spoken with a Mr. Hackett about the Americans who were killed in the bush and he certainly did not tell him that a jeep had stopped at his garage or that the driver of such a jeep would have enquired about the Lindsey party.
A year after the trial, that is in 1955, someone called him from Toronto; this person was writing a book and asked Patterson if he had seen a jeep and who was in it.
Two or three years ago, a Mr. Doyon went to see him and told him that he was investigating the Coffin case.
Mr. Doyon questioned him once more about the jeep and Patterson told him that he had not seen any.
As opposed to what Mr. Hébert wrote in the English version of his book wherein he affirms that Lorne Patterson had told him having seen a jeep on the 11th of June 1953, Mr. Patterson declares never having made such a declaration to whomever for the good reason that he never saw a jeep.
As opposed to what Mr. Belliveau affirms in his book at page 100, as to an affidavit that Patterson would have given to Coffin’s lawyers concerning a yellow jeep with plywood on the sides and whose occupants would have asked about Lindsey, Lorne Patterson declares categorically that he has never signed such a declaration and that he has not given any to Coffin’s lawyers and that he has not signed an affidavit.
He certainly did not declare having signed such an affidavit for the person who called him from Toronto.
In her testimony before this Commission, Mrs. ALBERT COFFIN pretended that before the trial she went to Rivière Madeleine to see Patterson who declared to her that inasmuch as he recalled, he had seen « such a station-wagon…with two men in it, two Americans and they had stayed all night at the hotel » and that the station-wagon was not painted and was of natural colour.
« We gave that information to Mr. Maher” said Mrs. Coffin, “who did not seem to be very much interested.”
She does not believe that, on that occasion, Mtre Maher has mentioned to her that her son had spoken about a jeep rather than a station-wagon.
Mtre Maher confirmed before this Commission having received from Mr. Patterson information substantially identical to that Mr. Patterson communicated himself to the Commission, having found them « trivial and hardly useful to the defence. »
And Mr. John Hackett also confirmed never having spoken about a jeep with Lorne Patterson or having told anyone having spoken about it.
It is obvious that the vehicle seen by Patterson has not had any relation whatever with the one Coffin pretended having seen.
One would be tempted to believe in a con.
Therefore, those affirmations, in the book of Mr. Hébert, are absolutely inaccurate, stating that « Lorne Patterson has declared having seen such a jeep on the 11th of June 1953 » and that « the two Americans had inquired about the Lindsey party » and that « John Hackett is sure having seen the same jeep.” (To be continued)
NEXT WEEK, WE’LL HAVE A LOOK AT THE JEEP SEEN BY DR. AND MRS. E. W. WILSON
REPORT OF THE BROSSARD COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY INTO THE COFFIN AFFAIR (27TH OF NOVEMBER 1964)
VOL. 1 CHAPTER 5 (Part VIII)
THE JEEP WHOSE PRESENCE IN THE GASPÉ PENINSULA AND IN THE VICINITY WOULD HAVE BEEN « SEEN » BY EYE WITNESSES AT THE TIME THE CRIMES WERE COMMITTED.
-VI –
THE WOULD-BE JEEP THAT LORNE J. PATTERSON MIGHT HAVE SEEN. (Continuation from page 161 of the Brossard Report)
Mr. Lorne J. Patterson has testified before this Commission that :
One day in early June, around seven o’clock in the morning, a station-wagon whose colour he does not remember and that was bearing American licence plates stopped at his garage; it only had one passenger, a man weighing around 170 pounds with grey hair who told him that he was going salmon fishing on the St. Jean river; this man named no one.
It is impossible that he mistook a station-wagon for a jeep.
He has never seen a yellow jeep with two Americans.
He has never told anyone that someone in a jeep of this type would have inquired about other persons of the name of Lindsey.
At the request of Mrs. Albert Coffin, he went to Percé at the time of the trial, but he was not called by anyone as a witness.
He knew Mrs. Coffin for several years, but has never met Wilbert.
He thinks that it is rather Leslie who called him on behalf of his mother, Mrs. Coffin.
At his arrival (at Percé), he was interviewed by Mtre Maher; several weeks before, he had seen Mtre Maher at his garage; Mtre Maher had asked him if there was a good road leading to Murdochville coming from Rivière Madeleine where Patterson’s garage was located. On this occasion, Mtre Maher did not inquire at all about a jeep. He only saw him once more, at Percé.
At Percé, he spoke not only to Mtre Maher but also to Mrs. Coffin.
Mtre Maher questioned him about a yellow jeep and he (Patterson) told him (Maher) that he never had seen one before nor since then.
After the morning interview, Mtre Maher did not speak to him anymore.
After having learned that the trial was over, he returned home.
He has known, however, a man by the name of Hackett who may be John Hackett, but he has not seen him for several years.
He does not know a contractor by the name of John Hackett.
He denies having spoken with a Mr. Hackett about the Americans who were killed in the bush and he certainly did not tell him that a jeep had stopped at his garage or that the driver of such a jeep would have enquired about the Lindsey party.
A year after the trial, that is in 1955, someone called him from Toronto; this person was writing a book and asked Patterson if he had seen a jeep and who was in it.
Two or three years ago, a Mr. Doyon went to see him and told him that he was investigating the Coffin case.
Mr. Doyon questioned him once more about the jeep and Patterson told him that he had not seen any.
As opposed to what Mr. Hébert wrote in the English version of his book wherein he affirms that Lorne Patterson had told him having seen a jeep on the 11th of June 1953, Mr. Patterson declares never having made such a declaration to whomever for the good reason that he never saw a jeep.
As opposed to what Mr. Belliveau affirms in his book at page 100, as to an affidavit that Patterson would have given to Coffin’s lawyers concerning a yellow jeep with plywood on the sides and whose occupants would have asked about Lindsey, Lorne Patterson declares categorically that he has never signed such a declaration and that he has not given any to Coffin’s lawyers and that he has not signed an affidavit.
He certainly did not declare having signed such an affidavit for the person who called him from Toronto.
In her testimony before this Commission, Mrs. ALBERT COFFIN pretended that before the trial she went to Rivière Madeleine to see Patterson who declared to her that inasmuch as he recalled, he had seen « such a station-wagon…with two men in it, two Americans and they had stayed all night at the hotel » and that the station-wagon was not painted and was of natural colour.
« We gave that information to Mr. Maher” said Mrs. Coffin, “who did not seem to be very much interested.”
She does not believe that, on that occasion, Mtre Maher has mentioned to her that her son had spoken about a jeep rather than a station-wagon.
Mtre Maher confirmed before this Commission having received from Mr. Patterson information substantially identical to that Mr. Patterson communicated himself to the Commission, having found them « trivial and hardly useful to the defence. »
And Mr. John Hackett also confirmed never having spoken about a jeep with Lorne Patterson or having told anyone having spoken about it.
It is obvious that the vehicle seen by Patterson has not had any relation whatever with the one Coffin pretended having seen.
One would be tempted to believe in a con.
Therefore, those affirmations, in the book of Mr. Hébert, are absolutely inaccurate, stating that « Lorne Patterson has declared having seen such a jeep on the 11th of June 1953 » and that « the two Americans had inquired about the Lindsey party » and that « John Hackett is sure having seen the same jeep.” (To be continued)
NEXT WEEK, WE’LL HAVE A LOOK AT THE JEEP SEEN BY DR. AND MRS. E. W. WILSON
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