The Sun. — 1862-11-03 (London, England)

VEECIIY.  THE PRISONERS UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH IN NETVGATE.  On Friday afternoon the sheriffs, Mr. Alderman J. C. Lawrence and Mr. Hugh Jones, accompanied by Messrs. Farrar and Mackrell, under-sheriffs, and the Rev. Mr. Davis, and Mr. Jonas, the governor of Newgate, proceeded to the cell in which the prisoner Robert Cooper was confined, and the chaplain announced to him, in becoming terms, that the sheriffs had fixed Monday, the 17th inst., as the day for carrying out the sentence of the law, and he exhorted him to make the best use of the time that remained to him in this world, and by a sincere repentance to endeavour to obtain pardon for the great sin he had committed. This wretched man appears to be quite prostrated by his position, and appears to feel an excessive terror at the thought of losing his life upon the scaffold. He has never, it appears, attempted to cast any doubt upon the propriety of the verdict of the jury, but still he seems to think there was a sort of justification of the act he committed by the conduct of the deceased. He has repeatedly stated that no one could tell what his feelings were at discovering that his wife, as he always called the deceased, was unfaithful to him. On his being reminded that she was not his wife, and that he hod a wife living, he stated that, on account of his being in the army he could not live with the woman whom he formerly married, and that they mutually agreed to separate ; he had not seen her for many years, and thought she was dead at the time he contracted the second marriage with the deceased girl. The prisoner evidently entertains an idea that mercy will be extended to him, and he has expressed an intention of sending his own statement of his case to the Home Secretary, and making an appeal to the Crown for mercy, but it is not probable from the character of the crime that this will be likely to have any effect. The prisoner has repeatedly stated, since his conviction, that on the day the fatal affair happened, ho went to Isleworth quite by chance, and he declares that he entertained no intention to do mischief to the deceased, but alleges that the object for which he carried the pistol about with him was to destroy his own life. The other condemned culprit, Samuel Gardner, the sweep, who' was convicted on Friday of the murder of his wife, appears to exhibit much more fortitude than his wretched companion ; and it seems that he has all along persisted in declaring his innocence of the crime of which he was accused. It will be remembered that the circumstances of the case were of a very peculiar character; but although the jury were in deliberation more than an hour and a half before they returned their verdict, it appears that eleven of them had made up their minds in a very short time that the evidence had established the guilt of the prisoner, and only one of them entertained any doubt upon the point, saTtihbefieLdowrditChhtihele Baron, who tried the pi perfectlysactnteemr , pit s, r he understoodbe really t o upon an innocent person, a similargh verdict,ua le e guilt, y, tppoarnrofiedesxesteethddi himselfienger ti mo prisoner'srew the mallltniell‘i,Tiutilweeill be whoadoptedaggravationevwaesntly a convicted of the murder of Mrs. Ems lie, the officials, on Saturday fw hasi whichsmade afternoon,oahffdaeedn to this tehn madeanpsdri similar hoit lehna heardeerr l) it with perfect calmness, and merely observed, that he was prepared to die ; and it appears that he did not utter any of those protestations of innocence that were made use of by him after his trial. On Friday evening, after the jury had delivered their verdict, the girl Elizabeth Humbler was liberated from custody, and she was taken away from Newgate in the charge of her mother,