Police arrived and arrested the assailant who identified himself as Albert Ralph Price although he carried identification with the name Hobert Prater and later proved to be Hatcher. (29 August 1969)
There are 3381 births, 3949 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6449 places until today.
Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.
Monday 23rd of February 1885 (x) — Murderer John Lee is brought upon the scaffold three times to be hanged but the trapdoor refuses to open upon each attempt despite being carefully tested by executioner James Berry. Lee continued to petition successive Home Secretaries and was finally released in 1907.
Wednesday 18th of December 1907 (x) — Murderer John Lee is released from prison. On 23 February 1885 three attempts were made to carry out Lee's execution. All ended in failure as the trapdoor of the scaffold failed to open despite being carefully tested by executioner James Berry beforehand. As a result Home Secretary Sir William Harcourt commuted the sentence to life imprisonment.