Saturday, November 18, 2017

Of Poison and Murder

JMJ
Nov.18, 2017

    Dominique Morin of Southend, Reindeer Lake, Saskatchewan was murdered a few months ago.  This is the fifth child ,of seven children in the Albert Morin family who has died a violent death. His uncle , Gideon Cook delivers water at our house. Gideon told my husband,  John that “ there are people who know things but they are not coming forward.”

    Here is my initial contribution to “ coming forward “ plus  a  bit of current events. About sixteen years ago Iasked Mrs. Gerdie Cook , who has since passed away if Gideon and Shirley are involved in drugs.  She said “ Shirley hides drugs for Albert in Brabant Lake.” Brabant is 4 km. South of Southend.

    Dominique was a regular drug connector for our neighbour Jesse McLeod .  Dominique would  come from the town entrance at Can - Am Store , walk at the back of the village hall , go along the path back of our property and enter McLeod’s from the rear of their property. He would have to pass our dogs. Chester and Mocha. They would inevitably bark when Dominique passed our property. Mocha was near the McLeod house. He was killed with poison.  Chester, who was near our neighbours’, Solomon and Lydia Hardlotte, was killed with a Coneybear Trap . He was thrown into Waddy River. Mrs. Lydia Hardlotte found him as she was rinsing hides. John Caswell took a picture of the dead Chester clamped to the trap, made posters  and put them all around town.  He definitely contacted the RCMP ( police). Nothing was done about it Locals know that Jesse stole coney bear traps from a trapper’s cabin up the Lake. Jesse never traps but snares pet cats .Ms. Nancy Charles reported him to the police. John drove her to court in Southend so she could pursue her complaint.  We do not know if anything was done about it.

    Gideon and Shirley Cook are the main source of “information”,usually disinformation from Brabant Lake to the Southend Police.  Mounties come and go usually in two-year or shorter
stints. The Gideon and Shirley Cook’s  influence and frienship to the police seems to go on forever. When John was deputy mayor of Brabant the Local Advisory Ctte. appointed him as police representative. Shirley immediately informed the police and everyone else that she, not John was the police representative and it had nothing to do with the LAC.  Another source of information to the police is Can Am Store. Gideon, as the store’s employee, spends hours there giving his twist on everybody and everything.

    We always have had dogs. Some of them even got to die of old age. We were reduced to two. We decided to start again. We got a little black one and a tan one who are brothers. I trained them to follow me to school, wait for me and come home. They immediately come when they are called by me. When we travel we take them with us in carriers.  This Tuesday they were poisoned by anti- freeze.  Death usually comes within 24 hours.  At  this point they are still alive. They have blue colour in the whites of their eyes.  They still reek of  anti- freeze five days later. One won’t eat anything.  I force a little  water down his throat with a squirt bottle and shove a little honey in his mouth. I thought one had disappeared to die so I decided it’s time to call the police.  Constable Carrier said that they can’t take it to court  because I am not an expert . I need to get evidence from a vet. The closest vet we know is in the town of Hudson’s Bay about 700 miles away.

    Maybe Dominique Morin would still be alive if the police had investigated the killing of at least five dogs .  His death goes through the wide drug trail which goes directly through Brabant Lake.  Gay

update: The pups have recovered thank God and St. Francis