Flagrant incendiarism. PLOT TO DLSTROY WELLINGTON. AN AUCKLAND EMIGRANT'S EXCITING STORY OF CRIME. Wellington, April 13.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 256, 18 April 1888, Page 3

Flagrant incendiarism. PLOT TO DLSTROY WELLINGTON. AN AUCKLAND EMIGRANT'S EXCITING STORY OF CRIME. Wellington, April 13.

Liinu.N Him), \\\\o wa-j yesterday sentenced to 21 u\'in' penal s-eniUidc fo r .11 son, boa':lt^ Auckland as his landing place in the c .lony. In the coui.se of a long statement- which he made before sentence wa^ pionoi.nccd he profe^od great dread of liie, hec-uNO he said when he armed in Auckland and h\ed in Newton Itoad, hio hoiiie was -it cm (ue \nd a quantity ot \« unable property de->ttojcd; a man numed l'\i<4,m bcin» Hi^pectecl ot the offence, which, howe\ei, \wt* iie\er sheeted home. The 21 and 7 yeai*. passed by .Jud<j,e Kidmiond on lh:id and Dunkin for ai-on m Wellington, aie generally appro\ed. Jha Honor, in passing sentence on Hind, f.ud : " I'li-oni'r at Uio bar, — It i>, oi coui-e, quite vain of you now to piotc-b }oai innocence, and it wmld be quite lmpiopei m me to follow you into the long statement jon have jufefc made. It apleaT- to me to lie altogether beside the purpose. Kobody want-j convincing, certamlj 1 do not, that Dunl.in is a great s>coun diel." I'lii-onci : ile v.as a \illaui from his cradle. Hh Honor : l>uu Dunking btory, which no one would behe\c upon his own testimonj , hd? been eontirmed in c\eiy essential point by te^tiir,on> A\hich taken together appeals to me to he perlectly satistaeiory. >su one can doubt that Hunkin lunipelf was picscnt w hen theliie \\.b lighted on that Satuiday nionnn^ in Beck's yard. The onl\ que-< ion )i w hethei you were with him. It \uii pio\e<l to tlie satisfaction of the jury by the testimony ot unnnpt'.isJiable wiluv<>q*, and I am bound to •> iy that I coincide in their \eidiet. have been con\icted ot a hateful ci line — nothing less than a dehbeuite atten ]it to lne this town. It appeals sou and joui confedei ate selected tluec pom- i in the town to set hre to that myhb — choo-^inn, apparently, in every cat,e, the most combv.r-tiblc mateiial and the most combuVab c places yn<- cnulrl find, and all w ithin a very narrow compat-s near the centie ot the city. I " cannot doubt that the intent was really to iiie the town, and a moie hateful oilenco can be imagined. Jt is my duty to jnotect -ociety against the chance of \our repeating such an oHence or the attempt at touch an oiience ior a \ er\ long time. It is my duty to make you an example to otheit, and to protect society fiom jou for a long peiiod. You iiiust be tieated— and yon cannot wondei .it it— you nui-t ho treated ab an enemy to the communit) . You ha\e f-efc yourself auani'-t them ; you have endangered their h\e», and theic io no secutity that you would noc lepeat that attempt if you had an oppoituuity to do .^o. The sentence of the Com t upon \ou is that you be kept in ])eual t-crsitude \\ifhin this c »lony for the term of 21 years. Remove the piisoner. Kind wok led out of the dock, weeping bitterly.

THE INFORMER'S DOOM. His Honor pat-ted sentence on Dunkin, who bad tinned Quccn\ evidence, a» fol lo\v> :- -'" There is no doubt at all, prisoner, that you ically stand convicted upon your own eonfe^ion. Your e\idonce in Court ye^tciday icaliy did amount to a confession that you weio Hind's confederate in these jiiv-.— nothing le«» than his wi'linq- cotifedciate. At the same time I &hall .isMirae- and I think I am justified in illuming — that yon were not the leadei. on weio deeply guilty ; but 1 think tho cucumstancc^ show — 1 could not believe )ou alone -that you were not the principal -\illain ; but that you were an active paitieip itoi ib niade perfectly clear by your own The jntlsinienfc of the Court upon >ou is that you be kept in penal sei\itudo within the colony of New Zealand ioi a term of seven yearrf. "' Ycsteiday afternoon the Colonial Secreiaiy signed the tor the removal of the prisoner Dunkin from Wellington to Lyttelton Uaol It is leaved that if he were allowed to remain in Wellington the feeling apainst. him among- his fellow -prisoneis, on account of his ha\ino- turned approver, would be &o strong that nis life would be endangered.