2. Jay Gould Was Not Into Forgiving and Forgetting
For many months after jumping bail, the fake Lord Gordon-Gordon’s whereabouts were unknown, and his trail went cold. His most prominent victim, Jay Gould, offered a $25,000 reward for the arrest of His Lordship. Eventually, word arrived that the conman was living in Manitoba, Canada.
Gould tried to get him extradited to the US, but Gordon-Gordon convinced the Canadian authorities that the charges against him were false. The fact that His Lordship had offered to buy large tracts of Manitoba – an investment that promised to bring great prosperity to Canada – might have played a role in the Canadian authorities’ reluctance to extradite him.