Had it been solely in the hands of the Snuneymuxw first nation , the crime might have been forgiven. But to the Canadian legal authorities killing a four-year-old because of his name, was unambiguously capital murder, and so Tsimequor was arrested and brought to trial. He maintained his innocence, but was convicted on November 7, 1888 and sentenced to death. 

From the same cell-block that had housed the famous Louis Riel, Gaddy and Racette were led to the scaffold on June 13, 1888.  A grimly humorous footnote was added in 1894. Photographer Allen Sutherland visited the Crooked Lake Reserve that summer and was attracted to an aged Indian whose face he thought would make an  excellent portrait. To his surprise, the man refused to pose. Sutherland later learned that the old Indian didn't want his picture taken "by the machine that hung Gaddy and Racette."

In 1887 Robert Neil had received a two-year sentence in the Central Prison for stealing a barrel of apples from a G.T.R. car on Dominion Day 1887.. he would eventually kill guard john Rutledge ...

The Toronto Central Prison, colloquially know as The Toronto Jail was a 336-bed facility located near the intersection of King Street and Strachan Avenue. It opened in 1873, when the area was still well away from any residential development. Hard work and discipline were considered the best forms of rehabilitation