A WIFE MURDERER'S COFESSION.
ostox, November 21.—-E. C. Harper, senincod at Montpelier, Vt., last Friday week > be hauged iu ISSI for the murder of his ife, says in a statement furnised to a Boston iper : " I have been asked if there was a mac not known for my wife's life, answered, No! Of her love, purity, and .ithfulness to me I have not a doubt nor rer had. She was confiding, self-sacrificing, id full of charity. Hec character and her eart were as spotless and pure as the , lgels. If she had a fault, it was her love ir me. X declare and solemnly swear I was , it couacious. I know my heart never conjived the thought of that terrible act. All opes and promises were taken from me. 11 their treachery (referring to his wife's stations) was then and there unmasked, or months my life had been a harden to me id to that day (September Ist) I had looked lxiously and eagerly forward as the end of ty sorrows—the beginning of a new and »ppy life. Iu was all in that one short day tken from me. It must have brought Dout a feeling of despair, of frenzy, and unmsciously I did that which was contrary to y nature, my desire, interest, and peace of lind,"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5394, 1 March 1879, Page 7
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