How Joseph Samuel Survived His Own Execution

Dumb luck or divine intervention?

Ben Kageyama
CrimeBeat
Published in
3 min readOct 22, 2020

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Joseph Samuel was convicted of robbery in 1795 and was exiled to the British penal settlement in Australia. Security was not tight on the settlements as guards figured that the Australian wilderness would kill any escapees, because of this that Samuel succeeded in his escape.

Murder

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