Englishman John Lee, regularly known as John “Babbacombe” Lee, became sentenced to loss of life and met the hangman in 1885. The gallows trap door did not start, and after three makes an are trying to hold the murderer, his sentence became modified to existence imprisonment.
The model of John Lee, surviving execution as suggested in Crime Does No longer Pay #26 (1943), has the primary epic of Lee rather straight, but the ending is fanciful. The problem is that Lee’s further destiny, after detention heart is generally unknown. Some recount his destiny brought him to the USA after deserting his family in England, the rotter! Lee is presupposed to private emigrated after deserting his wife and children. It makes for a simply epic, anyway, which makes it sound loads deal with folklore.
Art by Dick Briefer.
