History
Lester Drake was a shady mining engineer hired by Barrie Richards to help work a mine that he inherited following the death of his father. Lester was not beneath the idea of getting slaves to do the work so that the mine could make more of a profit; however, Richards refused to do so. When inspecting the mining camp, Barrie fell through a game trap and broke his ankle. Seeing this as a golden opportunity, Lester shot Barrie dead and forged documents making it seem as though Richards had sold him the mine.
Going to the corrupt chief Abwama, Lester gave the chieftain gifts in exchange for his people rounding up slaves from rival tribes and helping him capture elephants for mining or poaching their ivory tusks. Lester's operations soon gained the attention of Ka-Zar who came to the slaves and captured elephants' rescue. He fell through one of the game traps, and Lester made the mistake of throwing him in the elephant pens in the hopes that Ka-Zar would be trampled to death.
Ka-Zar, however, convinced the elephants to help him by starting a stampede that trampled Lester and Abwama to death, freeing their slaves.[1]