John Lee’s solicitor, Reginald Gwynne Templer, who is widely linked to the Babbacombe murder and suffering from a neuropsychiatric disorder affecting the brain and central nervous system, caused by syphilis infection, was reported to have been too ill to act properly for Lee’s trial in 1884. He carried on working for several years with the illness and was last reported […]
1886
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The events at the scaffold at Exeter in 1885 had created long lasting debate. A year after John Lee’s botched execution The Exeter and Plymouth Gazette – Saturday 06 March 1886 – had much to say. Scaffold Bungling It is a remarkable circumstance that, despite the extra attention given of late years to the subject of capital punishment, the cases […]