Bio & Incident Details
Age: 38
Tour: Not available
Badge # Not available
Cause: Stabbed
Location: California
Incident Date: 9/8/1935
Weapon: Edged weapon; Knife
Suspect: Executed in 1936
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Patrolman Roderick Gordon was killed after being slashed and stabbed 29 times by a hobo he had found sleeping in a railroad car in Stockton, California.
The suspect was later arrested in Ohio and returned to California to face trial. He was convicted of Patrolman Gordon's murder and sentenced to death by hanging. He was executed at Folsom Prison on October 16, 1936.
Patrolman Gordon was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of WWI and a recipient of the Purple Heart. He was survived by his wife and young son.
