On October 31, 1900, in Ostrožské Předměstí in Austria-Hungary. He was raised in a youth detention center. He was a career criminal after he left the detention center. He was twice punished by the Regional Court of Uherské Hradiště. During his military service, he fled and went AWOL five times. After his last time fleeing he met Maria Krenovska and they began stealing around Moravia. They would open the door by covering the locking mechanism and then they would rob the cash registers.
In Prostějov both Lecián and Krenvska were detained. After they transferred to a hospital in Olomouc Lecián escaped with a dangerous criminal named Szekely on December 10, 1926. In their escape, they injured two guards.
They then went and committed a series of thefts before they split up in Bučovice on the 21st. Lecián stayed in Morania and Szekely went to Slovakia. They were both wanted criminals at this point.
On Jan. 19, 1927 Lecián shot and killed a municipal officer Rudolf Hanák four times as the officer tried to stop a burglary in Slavkov u Brna Lecián was committing. The next day he was attempted to kill a shop owner and police officer in Poledňák. A month later a murdered a guard František Marčík at the Grafony in Jihlava.
Lecián was then recognized by a gendarme on a train where Lecián shot the gendarme several times. Lecián then jumped from the moving train and went on the run again. He was still a wanted criminal, but now he had 10,000 korunas for his capture. This did not stop his crime spree.
Lecián began to wear a mas and continued his criminal activities. People believed him to be much like Robin Hood a brave and gallant who robbed the rich. Songs were being written by him.
On March 8, 1927, he shot twice in Veselí nad Moravou at Chancellor Antonín Stuchlı. He was expecting a child shortly after his wedding. This made his popularity hit rock bottom and people stopped seeing him as a Robin Hood figure. Lecián then shot down Military Chief Chvalovsky. Lecián engaged in several shoot outs and at one near Polešovice, he was injured, but still able to escape.
On April 23rd he was caught and detained by a civil police officer in Nový Bohumín. He was put through a four-month investigation and a six-day trial. He was found guilty of his crimes and set to be executed for his crimes.
He tried to plead to not get executed. He had acute tuberculosis was going to kill him in just a few years anyway. It was
On September 25th he and a deserter named Kašparik tried to escape. They killed the guard Ferenc Kisse and took his weapon. After a brief shoot out, they were recaptured. The pardon he may have gotten from him dying of tuberculosis wasn't given.
On October 6, 1927, he was executed. He tried to plead that his tuberculosis would soon kill him anyway. He was quoted saying. "In an hour the devil will be cleaning the chimney with my body. I'll make a good broom for him."
It's stated he has up to 10 victims of murder and attempted murder.
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