HAMILTON.
Monday.
A lad named Beetliam was arrested today, charged with breaking into and robbing the store of Jas. Martin on several occasions. Prisoner has made a clean confession. He was apprenticed to Messrs I. B. Vialou and Co., and suspicion attached to him on account of. selling a quantity of clothing to different persons in Auckland, staling that he was agent for Messrs Nathan and Co. He had sold about twenty suits of clothes at ridiculously low prices- Beetham has confessed to taking out a pane of glass at the back of the store, entering and stealing therefrom on the first occasion a quantity of sardines, lobsters, jam, &c, which he and other boys ate when fishing. He put a pane of glass in again, and returned the following night, stealing, a quantity of clothing. These were disposed of to various parties. Finding the sale of cloches easy, be again removed the pane of glass, and repeated the theft. H» declares that he had no accomplices, which is not credited. The prisoner wai brought up today before a J.P., aud remanded.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3485, 25 February 1880, Page 2
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182HAMILTON. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3485, 25 February 1880, Page 2
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