Tom Cooper Withdraws Appeal; Will Serve His Sentence, Feb. 16, 1925

Tom Cooper Will Serve Sentence. . . To Withdraw His Appeal and Leave for Atlanta Prison Wednesday

Wilmington, Feb. 15—Loser in his gamble with a hunch as his stake that one member of the jury would refuse to convict him, Thomas E. Cooper, former president of the defunct Commercial National Bank, will on Wednesday of this week withdraw is appeal for a new trial and go to Atlanta to begin this three-year sentence in the federal prison, according to friends who were in conference with him in the New Hanover County stockade today.

No longer ago than Friday morning, just before court convened for the last testimony against him, Cooper declined flatly overtures that were made that he enter a plea of guilty on one count, accept a sentence of three years in the Atlanta prison while a nol pros would be taken in the cases pending against his brother, W.B. Cooper, indicted and convicted with him. He stuck to his faith in his luck and lost.

From the front page of The Concord Times, Feb. 16, 1925

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