COOPER HANGED
MEETS DEATH UNFLINCHINGLY NOTHING TO SAY . (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, this day. Danial Richard Cooper, who was convicted at the last criminal sessions of murdering an infant child at Newlands, was hanged at the Terrace Gaol at, 8 o'clock this morning.
Cooper 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."
It is understood the condemned man thanked the warder who had been caring for him since the passing of the sentence.
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Waikato Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 3071, 16 June 1923, Page 5
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