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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 50, 28 July 1885, Page 4

-„J ib the Central Criminal Com b, on jVtarcb 4, William Wilcox, 52 car-' j>Miterwas;cha;rged upon three indict-ments-witi^ ha VingV committed burglaVies at the residence "of Sir J ohn Lainberb, and a gentleman named Buck, knd another' prosecutor, and stolen plate and other valuables. The evidence left . nip as to the giiilbof the prisoner, :biit a rather extr^rdinary statemenVwas made by Mr Wil- ■ liams that the. prisoner m. .course of : Ins depredations secured important assistance from a dog which was ii*ed to watch outsiHe the preruisies- where the prison^ was .engaged in jthe of robltery, x '|tfird.flie' fuomenb he saw a ])oliceinan-.a,pprqach,.ho barked, aad .it appearedvihat at all the places where (robberies were cdminitted, marks of a dog's ieeb^were discovered. The poor'dog ib| appeared had beon taken t6 the Dogs' 'Home, since the [>risblniei^S'tjappj'ehGn«ion, where he had been made away with. The jury fou n.d the prisionor ftui 1 ty, and pre:vious conviclipjjs liaviug been proved, he was sentenced to eight years' poual servitude.