There was something about all this that so shook the Home Secretary that he authorized a delay. The matter was debated in the House of Commons, where some of the members denounced a proposed defeat of justice by superstition. Nevertheless the execution was attempted again. Lee's sentence was commuted to life-imprisonment, but he was released in December, 1907. His story was re-told in the newspapers of that time.
All attempts fail.
He hadn't a dollar. The man they could not hang. The man they could not hang.