"THE MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG."

Shannon News, 19 February 1924, Page 3

"THE MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG."

Tire Maoriland Pictures have secured for Friday next one of the most powerful human, stories ever- filmed, me wildest Imagination of fiction writers has never surpassed tUe wonderful true story of actual escape of death upon the gallows. The story opens in a cheerful way, and has not tine slightest suggestion of gloomy horrors. John Lee, at the age of 22-, whilst in the employ of Miss Emma Keyse, at one time a Maid-of-honour to the late Queen Victoria, was accused and found guilty of circumstantial evidenoo 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 commuted to, penal servitude for life. On the ex* piration of 23 years of prison life, he was released, through the real murderer confessing to the crime. John Lee is still aliye to-djay.

‘THE MAM WHO HAD EVERYTHING.’

A story that carries a lesson and a moral in these days of extravagance of youth, is told in “The Man who had Everything’’ at the Maoriland tomorrow. Haying everything one wants doesn’t insure mental happiness. Ofttimes a surfeit of good things in life brings longing and discontent. Mark Bullway, millionaire, started his son Harry up against , just this sort of proposition. But Mark had an object. The muttered curse of a blind man struck by the touring car in which Mark and his son rode, inspired him: “I hope the young! man will get everything he wants,” said the blind man. And Mark Bullway, seeing the light, decided to sicken his son of worldly pleasures by giving him everything. How well the scheme worked is portrayed admirably in this clever story, ,