Colby (Southern Victory)

Colonel Colby was a Military Tribunals Judge with the U.S. Occupation Authority in Canada. Colby presided over the trial of Mary McGregor Pomeroy on charges of terrorism and the murders of Laura Secord Moss and her daughter. Clarence Smoot, Pomeroy's lawyer, considered him a fairly reasonable man, for a military judge. Colby convicted Pomeroy but signalled mercy would be granted if she pleaded for it. Since the best she could hope for was a life sentence in jail, Pomeroy refused, stating she did what she did for her country. She was duly sentence to death by firing squad and became a martyr for the resistance movement.