Sgt. John Wilson

By baileywailey

  • Jack proposes to Polly in August of 1906

  • Jack and Polly get married

  • Jack and Polly's first son is born in October of 1909

  • Jack sails to Canada, leaving 6 month pregnant Polly behind

  • John and Polly's second child is born in October of 1912, she is named Helen

    John and Polly's second child is born in October of 1912, she is named Helen

  • John Wilson joins the Royal North West Mounted Police in August of 1914

    John Wilson joins the Royal North West Mounted Police in August of 1914

  • World War One is declared

  • John Wilson meets Jessie Patterson in the summer of 1916 at a Patterson family supper in Blaine Lake

  • Jack tells Jessie's dad his wife is dead in the beginning of summer 1917

  • Jack is diagnosed with tuberculosis at the end of summer 1917

  • The Patterson family takes care of Jack throughout the winter of 1917. Jack also asks Jessie to marry him

  • Polly tells her family she is going to Canada to find Jack, they try to talk her out of it

  • Jack gains back strength day by day. Blaine Lake offers Jack a job as a notary public in Spring 1918

  • Polly leaves for Canada in early April on the Mauretania

  • Polly gets docked at Halifax Harbour in Canada

  • Jack is in Prince Albert to volunteer for an over seas cavalry unit. Jack and Polly speak on the phone for the first time in 6 years

  • Polly arrives in Regina, Saskatchewan from a train

  • Jack and Polly reunited and stayed at a boarding house together for 5 and a half months. Polly gets pregnant soon after their reunion

    Jack and Polly reunited and stayed at a boarding house together for 5 and a half months. Polly gets pregnant soon after their reunion

  • In August of 1918 Polly finds out about Jessie from a letter

  • In July and August of 1918, John keeps changing the wedding dates and makes many excuses

  • Jack moves to Saskatoon to join the military police and be in charge of a subdivision

  • Jack buys a wedding certificate from Wheaty's Jewelry

  • John Wilson murderers Polly with a shotgun and buries her in the culvert. Tries to drive off and crashed his car resulting in the car catches fire.

  • Jack and Jessie get married two days after Jack murdered Polly

  • First cases of spanish influenza appeared in Saskatoon

  • John writes to Archie Craig about the Spanish Flu and how Polly and he are doing. He also asks for money.

  • At their New Years celebration, Polly's family compares notes on the information that John Wilson provided them about Polly

  • John Wilson gave his next of kin as Mary Wilson living at 217 9th Street, Saskatoon

  • Jack and Jessie move to Blairmore, Alberta

  • Late February, John is granted a request to be transferred to Vancouver

  • Elizabeth Craig, Mary's sister, writes to Superintendent Routledge asking him to enquire or cause enquires to be made about where Mary Wilson is. This begins the investigation into the whereabouts of Mary Wilson.

  • Superintendent Horrigan wrote to Commissioner Perry about his concerns about Elizabeth's letter and Sgt. Cather's report after meeting Jessie

  • The Saskatoon Daily Star is the first newspaper to report on the case of Mary Wilson's murder

  • Staff Sargent Herbert Darling visits Mrs. Foster, Polly's previous neighbour from the boarding house in Saskatoon, she gives Sgt. Hebert a picture of Jessie, not Polly.

  • John pawns off his shotgun in Vancouver, and signs his name as Williams J.

  • Sgt. Darling looked into the marriage certificate of Jessie and John Wilson and looked for Mary Wilson's death certificate

  • Staff Sargent Herbert Darling looks into the marriage certificate of Jessie and John Wilson and Polly Wilson's death certificate

  • Sgt. Thomas escorts Sgt. Wilson to Regina

  • John and Sgt. Thomas arrive at Regina

    Sgt. Thomas and John Wilson arrive at Regina. John is escorted to headquarters where he is informed that he is dismissed from service of RNWMP as of November 7, 1919. John Wilson is interrogated and writes his first statement about Polly. John attempts to kill himself using a penknife to his throat.

  • In his second statement, John states shooting Polly was a mistake. He also says where the body is located

  • Polly's body located and dug up

    Polly's body located and dug up

  • John is Taken to See Polly's body

  • Murder charges are laid against John Wilson

  • The trial for Mary Wilson's murder begins

  • Period: to

    John Wilson resides in the death cell for 77 days until his execution

  • Death Bell Rings

    Death Bell Rings
    Death bells rang at 6:50 AM; the bell stops ringing at 6:55 AM
    At 7:07 AM, life is pronounced extinct
    Jessie Wilson and John Wilson's son is born on the same day that John Wilson perished