DEATH PENALTY.
COOPER HANGED TO-DAY
[||Y m.KUHACII J'Kit CRESS ASSOCIATION. I WELLINGTON. June 10. Daniel Richard Cuuper. who was convicted al the last criminal sessions ol mill-doling an infant child at New lands was hanged at Terrace Grid at 8 o'clock tins morning. Cooper went to his death unflinchingly. His only statement on the scaffold was “Anything 1 have said. 1 have said to my friend (meaning the Salvation Army authorities). 1 don't wi-h to say any more." Ii is understood that the condemned man thanked the warder who had been miing for him since the passing ol the sentence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1923, Page 3
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100DEATH PENALTY. Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1923, Page 3
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