In 1918, the Reverend John Pitkin published his memoirs 'The Prison Cell in it's Light and Shadows'. It contained a chapter about John Lee, in which he refuted the prisoner's suggestion that the failure of the scaffold was due to Divine intervention: 'In similiar cases, when criminals try to shift the responsibility of their guilt upon other people's shoulders, they invent very plausible tales ... and, by a determined will, they keep up the deception to the very last. Lee was a person of this sort'.

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