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CENTRAL THEATRE PICTURES TO-NIGHT. THE MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG The wildest imagination of fiction writers has never surpassed the wonderful true story of actual escape of death from the gallows. The story opens in a cheeful way, and has not the slightest suggestion of gloomy horrors. John Lee, at the age of 23, whilst in the employ of Miss Emma Keyse, at pne time a Maid of Honour to the late Queen Victoria, was accused and found guilty on circumstantial evidence of murdering his mistress. He was sentenced to death in 1884. Three times they tried to hang him, and three times they failed. His sentence was then computed to penal servitude for life. On the expiration of 23 years’ of prison life he was released. John Lee is still alive to-day. Mr Arthur W. Sterry, the eminent actor-orator, who has been specially brought to New Zealand, will deliver a dramatically thrilling and inner knowledge talk, synchronising 1 with every detail of the picture.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4625, 14 November 1923, Page 2
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166ENTERTAINMENTS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4625, 14 November 1923, Page 2
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