COOPER CONFESSES
CLEARS HIS WIFE'S NAME.
At 7.30 o'clock this morning, half an hour before he was" executed, Cooper made the following statement, confessing his guilt and clearing his wifo:—
'' I, Daniel Richard Cooper, desire to say, as my last statement, that I say clearly that my wife is absolutely innocent "of the sin of murder, but I admit my guilt, but Dot to .the extent that,l,.am credited with. . I have been placed in. peculiar and trying circumstances, never intending to go as far as I have gone. I now confess my sin and guilt, and leave myself in the hands of God, and feel I have forgiveness through Jesus Christ, nly Saviour. " I thank my two friends, Commis
Bioner Hoggard and Colonel Bray, and also the prison officers, for their kindness.
" I sign this freely. " (Sgd.) D. R. COOPER.'
■ The witnesses to the statement were : Robert'Hoggard and James H. Bray, I.P. -■■■'■..
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 142, 16 June 1923, Page 8
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152COOPER CONFESSES Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 142, 16 June 1923, Page 8
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