The Miracle That Saved Me From the Electric Chair; or My Jail Experience

Stated fourth edition, ca. 1926. Softcover 12mo; 95pp + (2)p ads at rear promoting "A New Book," "Up from the Depths...," an autobiography published ca. 1926 and revised under a few tvariations, ultimately incorporating the present title as Up from the Depths: The Miracle That Saved Me From the Electric Chair. Good with creasing and soil to wraps; faint pencil signature to cover, "L. B. Coon," else unmarked. Illustrated with several photographic plates of Lowman and his family. Not in OCLC.

J. W. Lowman was a Kansas evangelist and gospel singer who was falsely convicted for the April 1920 murder of Herschel Erwin in Fort Worth, Texas. The book tells the story of his arrest and extradition from Topeka, experience in jail (including solitary confinement and kangaroo court) and divine exoneration.