COOPER HANGED
FACES DEATH UNFLINCHINGLY. CONFESSION OF GUILT. STATES WIFE IS INNOCENT. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright). (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) WELLINGTON, June 16. Daniel Richard Cooper, who was connoted at the last criminal sessions of murdering an infant at Newlands, was hanged in the Terrace Gaol at 8 o’clock this morning. He went to his death unflinchingly. His only statement on the scaffold was : “Anything I have said I have said to my friends (meaning the Salvation Army authorities). I don’t wish to say any more. 1 ’ It is understood that the condemned man thanked the warder who had been caring for him since the passing of sentence. At 7.30 this morning Cooper made the folliwing statement:— 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 not to the extent that I 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, my Saviour. I thank my two friends, Commissioner Hoggard and Colonel Bray, and also the prison officials, for their kindness. I sign this freely. D. R. Cooper.
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Southland Times, Issue 18970, 18 June 1923, Page 6
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