the knower

He knew that he would not be executed and that they would not be able to execute him no matter how hard they tried. He knew that God would not oppress him as humans did and did wrong to him. His manhood was violated and he was wronged. They wanted his death and execution, but he knew that he would not be executed. He was called the Arif, yes, he was the Arif who knew that he would die safely on his bed while his body was warm, and would not die on the execution platform alone in a dark well.

John Lee was no more than twenty years old at the time when he was sentenced to death by hanging. On the morning of 1885, he was walking through the corridors of Exeter Prison with his thin body, which doubled the sense of his thinness and emaciation. Annoyed, he walked confidently and with no expression on his face, for he knew very well that he would not die today even if they swore to be dead, and it was hard for anyone to believe the fact that John was on his way through these long corridors to the gallows. But John was no ordinary man, he became famous as, the man they could not execute, he was the only one of those condemned to death, who stood on the gallows with a rope around his neck, and lived to tell his chilling story, it was John He knows he won't die, he saw it in his sleep the night before he tried to execute him.

He had seen in his dreams that the platform on which he stood on the gallows would not open, and this is what happened in reality, and he worked for me in the three years preceding that strange day, in the service of Miss Emma Ann Keys's spinster, in her home in the Dauphin, as a gardener, besides that Of other small business he was assigned, and Lee was sued for it from his rich and miserly servant, four shillings a week, on the evening of November 14, 1884, Miss Keyes was found murdered in the caravan room, butchered with the gardener's knife which he used to me, John was arrested Lee, who was sleeping in a small room next to the locker room in which the body was found, was charged with murder.

On January 4, 1885, the trial was held at Exeter, and the court sentenced him to death by hanging, for the jury did not recommend clemency to him. It appeared from the proceedings, that Miss Keys was cruel to those in her service, including me, to work hard for long hours, Then she gave them the very little food, barely enough to keep them up, and after that she paid them the lowest wages, and Miss Keys made her servant and her gardener John Lee a much harsher treatment, for though his salary was already small, it was now and then discount after discount on his salary, Just before her death, she told him that she would cut his salary by a shilling per week, and the court considered this as the direct motive for the crime.

Nevertheless, during the trial I had a very calm attitude, very courageous, remarkably calm, never seeming as someone who could kill anyone in a sudden outburst of anger, and this caught the judge's attention, and he commented on him asking John Lee, if he had anything he liked to divulge. before the court, he said to me, so the man smiled very calmly, saying, The reason for my calmness, sir, judge is that I will not be hanged and will not die that unjust death, God knows that I am innocent, even if you do not believe me, but God believes me and knows, but the judge sentenced him to death and did not believe I had someone, and while Lee was soundly asleep in his cell the night before his hanging, the prison men were testing the gallows, which would be the instrument of execution. A lever connected to a lever, and the person was to be executed, to stand with each foot placed on one of the door's sashes, when the lever moved the bolt retracted and the sashes fell down, and the hanged man fell into the dark gallows, hanging by its rope from his neck.

They tested this bolt five times to make sure that it was working and sound, and each time it was working very normally, and at seven in the morning of February 23, he woke up to me as usual and he was feeling very happy and told the guard the details of the strange dream he had seen in his sleep, he said to the guard, Samuel Bennett while he was He smiles, I saw in my dream that I was led into a small garden, with a gallows erected in the middle, and then pushed up the steps of the gallows, then a black hood was put on my head, and the noose was put around my neck. I heard the executioner push the lever, and I felt the bolt moving under my feet, but the door that My bottom was not opened, and they could not execute me, and the strange thing is that after these words a dream came true for me in every detail. The gallows was actually erected in a small garden within the prison walls, but in a place where the prisoners did not see a garden or the gallows from their cell, just as Lee did not know. With a garden inside the prison walls.

On the eighth, he left his cell for me, and was taken to the gallows, and there his feet were bound, and the hood was placed over his head, down to his shoulder The noose around his neck, the lever was pushed, and everyone heard the sound of the bolt moving from its place, but John did not disappear into the well, because the door below him remained closed, the prison officer, the executioner, and the witnesses to the execution remained in their place, the silence fell on them, and they opened their mouths, but Lee did not move or utter anything, the quietest of those in the prison garden stood with great confidence, when John Lee was removed from his place, the two doors immediately opened, Lee was returned to his cell while the officials specialized in examining the door of the gallows, and at every trial the gallows was It works perfectly and smoothly, and then John Lee was brought again to the gallows, and again what happened the first time, they took him back to his cell again, when the third attempt was made without opening the gallows door, here he spoke to me from behind the head covering that was Shaking with his words strongly, you will not be able to execute me, God knows that I am innocent and will not kill anyone, tears streamed from the eyes of the priest who was attending the execution of the sentence, and he said please, this is God's will, you should not try to execute this boy again, he is innocent, the prison officer ordered By taking me back to his cell, he busted himself into the cut A report on what happened was submitted to the higher authorities, and thus John Lee's sentence was commuted, from execution to life imprisonment. Lee spent 20 years in prison and then lived 15 years outside prison after his release, until he died naturally in 1920, and this was He is the gnostic who knew that he would not die by hanging because he knows that God exists and will help him because he is innocent and did not kill anyone. Rather, he is the one whose dignity and manhood have been unjustly violated.