“KING OF THE COINERS.”
SALVATION ARMY FUNERAL. George Copeland, ‘‘King of the Coiners,” was buried at Highgate on January 10 with full Salvation Army honors. After spending the best part of his life in gaol he reformed in Iris 75th year, and during the last two years of his life was known as a good Workman and upright citizen. In liis career of crime Copeland received sentences amounting to 44 years and nine months, and there were present at his graveside three men now attached to the Salvation Army, who among them had served nearly 100 years in prison. At his last trial in 1901 at the Did Bailey the judge described Copeland as “the most expert coiner of the 19th century.” During the latter part of his sentence at Dartmoor he was visited by a Salvation Army official, and ho then professed repentance and afterwards joined the Salvation Army.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3585, 10 March 1914, Page 7
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