1952: Lennie Jackson and Steve Suchan, of the Boyd Gang

ExecutedToday.com ^ | December 10, 2016 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

On this date in 1952, Steve Suchan and Lennie Jackson were hanged at Toronto’s Don Jail for the murder of a policeman.

Both Such and Jackson were members of the Boyd Gang, a swashbuckling troupe of show-stealing bank robbers in post-World War II Toronto … but in the timeless mold of the folk hero outlaws.

Not hanged with them (or ever; he died in British Columbia in 2002) was the gang’s leader and namesake, Edwin Alonzo Boyd.

The wartime commando legendarily launched his stick-up career by robbing a bank so unrecognizably made-up that he was able to walk back in and change a $20 without notice a few days later.

Boyd’s further exploits (and occasional close scrapes: he seemed to have a gift for not getting hit when people shot back at him) plundering banks, and then escaping jail with the cohorts who became the “Boyd Gang” to plunder some more, threw a splash of color across the headlines of staid 1950s Ontario that moved newspapers...

[Red Badger]

The Canadian Jesse James....................

[OneVike]

Seems like Canada was ahead of their times.

While they may have hung two the the gang members, the leader and another one got about 14 years for killing the police officer.

Makes you wonder why the leader and another gang member only got 14 years for the killing of the police officer.

I’m sure the officer’s family members were devastated when they heard of their release in 1966.