COOPER CONFESSES.
ACKNOWLEDGES HIS GUILT. EXONERATES HIS WIFE. [uv TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, June 1C At 7.30 this morning, Cooper made the following statement : "1, Daniel Richard Cooper, desire to say, as my last, statement, that 1 say clearly that my wife is absolutely innocent of the sin of murder; but I admit my guilt but not to the extent tluil 1 am credited with. I have been placed in peculiar and trying circumstances, never intending to go as far as I Jinvo gone. 1 now conloss my sin and guilt and leave myself in the hands of God, and feel 1 have forgiveness through Jesus Christ, my Saviour. I thank my two friends. Commissioner 1 laggard and Colonel Bray, ami also the prison officers for their kindness. I sign this freely, D. R. Cooper.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1923, Page 1
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136COOPER CONFESSES. Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1923, Page 1
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