John Lee - How The Man They Couldn't Hang Survived His Death Sentence
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Date: 2022-12-29
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Corrections: 1)Lee did not steal from Keyse. He stole from another household in which he was employed, and was imprisoned. 2)There was never a suggestion that he lashed out at Miss Keyse and had his wages reduced as a punishment. His wages were reduced due to Keyse falling on financial difficulties. It was then alleged that he argued with her due to the reduction. 3) The only spectators were the prison guards, the chaplain, and the executioner. And there is no record of any of them saying they thought it was divine intervention. 4)The evidence given by his sister regarding his threats are not substantiated. Information that has since come to light suggests that she had a motive in accusing him of such threats. It may not be true. 5) Lee had received offers of payment for him to give lectures about his experiences on the gallows, but he had to turn them down because it was one of the conditions of his parole that he was not to tour giving public speeches or lectures about the murder or the execution, although its true to say that he became something of an Edwardian celebrity.
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Corrections: 1)Lee did not steal from Keyse. He stole from another household in which he was employed, and was imprisoned. 2)There was never a suggestion that he lashed out at Miss Keyse and had his wages reduced as a punishment. His wages were reduced due to Keyse falling on financial difficulties. It was then alleged that he argued with her due to the reduction. 3) The only spectators were the prison guards, the chaplain, and the executioner. And there is no record of any of them saying they thought it was divine intervention. 4)The evidence given by his sister regarding his threats are not substantiated. Information that has since come to light suggests that she had a motive in accusing him of such threats. It may not be true. 5) Lee had received offers of payment for him to give lectures about his experiences on the gallows, but he had to turn them down because it was one of the conditions of his parole that he was not to tour giving public speeches or lectures about the murder or the execution, although its true to say that he became something of an Edwardian celebrity.
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Vanessa
He was a real dumb-ass! WHY get mad because his employer wanted to sell her property? She more than likely would've given him a cut from the sale, since she held him in some regard and didn't fire his sorry butt when he stole from her. Regardless of his hanging outcome, which they should've set him on fire, he showed his TRUE nature and character when he abandoned his first family; as well as making money from his employer's tragic death.
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He was a real dumb-ass! WHY get mad because his employer wanted to sell her property? She more than likely would've given him a cut from the sale, since she held him in some regard and didn't fire his sorry butt when he stole from her. Regardless of his hanging outcome, which they should've set him on fire, he showed his TRUE nature and character when he abandoned his first family; as well as making money from his employer's tragic death.
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Stuart
No mystery the trap wasn't checked the day before usually with a sandbag if the hangman had of if he would of realised the trapdoor had expanded and when it had the weight of a man on it the doors wouldn't of opened. The hangman was James Berry whose record as the country's executioner was patchy.
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No mystery the trap wasn't checked the day before usually with a sandbag if the hangman had of if he would of realised the trapdoor had expanded and when it had the weight of a man on it the doors wouldn't of opened. The hangman was James Berry whose record as the country's executioner was patchy.
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Ami-
OK. So get him off the trap door. Open it.
Get him back stand on the edge. And shove him off. They could've saved the poor lady and the wife and kids left behind JUST BY DOING THAAT
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OK. So get him off the trap door. Open it.
Get him back stand on the edge. And shove him off. They could've saved the poor lady and the wife and kids left behind JUST BY DOING THAAT
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Carolina
All I imagine when I hear a man who was hanged and didn't die is the parodical movie of the Ridiculous 6, when Taylor Lautner played an idiotical character who did a 360 on a noose.
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All I imagine when I hear a man who was hanged and didn't die is the parodical movie of the Ridiculous 6, when Taylor Lautner played an idiotical character who did a 360 on a noose.
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Paganstitcher
I love this story I have the album from fareport conversation telling the story in folk music I also live 45 minutes away from the prison where they tried to hang him.
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I love this story I have the album from fareport conversation telling the story in folk music I also live 45 minutes away from the prison where they tried to hang him.
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ibrahiym
Legend has it that his wife phoned him from England to America to cuss him and that was the first time in telephone history that someone hang up the phone on another.
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Legend has it that his wife phoned him from England to America to cuss him and that was the first time in telephone history that someone hang up the phone on another.
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SoraSariel
This makes me remember that one movie where some guy with a strong neck gets hanged but still happily swings about. I thinks it is a wild west theme.
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This makes me remember that one movie where some guy with a strong neck gets hanged but still happily swings about. I thinks it is a wild west theme.
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Axis
I can solve one of them mysteries right now for ya! It wasnt divine intervention! There is no God just as there is no Santa Claus. You're welcome.
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I can solve one of them mysteries right now for ya! It wasnt divine intervention! There is no God just as there is no Santa Claus. You're welcome.
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Apocrypha
He abandoned his wife and two daughters but before that he was 22 years in jailed and had two daughters? Am I missing something here
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He abandoned his wife and two daughters but before that he was 22 years in jailed and had two daughters? Am I missing something here
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Cartoon
How do people leave behind whole families just to go and create new ones? I mean I can see leaving behind spouses but children?
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How do people leave behind whole families just to go and create new ones? I mean I can see leaving behind spouses but children?
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31
It was already a sketchy prosecution, and I mean come on ball dont lie like 3 times and they couldnt do it. Free my boy Babbacombe
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It was already a sketchy prosecution, and I mean come on ball dont lie like 3 times and they couldnt do it. Free my boy Babbacombe
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Rick
Real simple solution. Open the trap door, put the noose around his neck, and push him down the opening. A successful execution.
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Real simple solution. Open the trap door, put the noose around his neck, and push him down the opening. A successful execution.
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Zhang
kissing testhold ur breath, then copy+paste this to another vid. if u can without having 2 gasp 4 air ur an awesome kisser
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kissing testhold ur breath, then copy+paste this to another vid. if u can without having 2 gasp 4 air ur an awesome kisser
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Paganstitcher
I live 40 minutes away from Exeter prison where they tried to hang John I always think of him when I pass there
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I live 40 minutes away from Exeter prison where they tried to hang John I always think of him when I pass there
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Jim
GoD SAVed hIM!
- Proceeds to do nothing of value for the rest of his life and even abandons his family.
Oh.
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GoD SAVed hIM!
- Proceeds to do nothing of value for the rest of his life and even abandons his family.
Oh.
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Candee
That secretary guy literally has another neck under neeth his neck. He even got another chin dude lmfao
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That secretary guy literally has another neck under neeth his neck. He even got another chin dude lmfao
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