[BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1645, 20 January 1883, Page 3

[BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

ArciCfjAM), Last Night. The Hamilton Burglary Case. .lames Kay was airaigned upon an indictment dial »ing him with breaking into the dwclling-hou^c of Fiodonc tiaudin, at Hamilton, l'li&oner pleaded not guilty. Samuel Puscoe, (Jeoige Judil, Freddie Uaudin, Hainet (a, native woman), and Constable Murray weie examined. Tlio piisoner, in addressing tlic jury, alleged that lie had found the bottles in the ti-tiec where lie was discoveied. The jury, without retiring, found a verdict of •'Guilty." The prisoner was then fin thei charged with having on the i2Bth December last, burglariously entered the house of Arthur Bad 1 , at Hamilton, with intent to steal. He admitted the chtu ge, and then handnd in a statement in which ho alleged that he was a, dipsomaniac, and that when uiuUr the influence oi drink was not lcsponsible for liis actions. In passing .sentence, His Honor said that the man had been convicted upon the eleaie&t evidence, and that drunkenness was no excuse whatever for criminality, besides the prisoner being six times convicted of larceny during the pievious two yeais. If, however, he was really dusitous of breaking off from Ins drinking habits lie would give him such a bentence as would enable him to cany on his plan of reformation. The sentence ot the Couit was that he .should be nnpiisoned and kept to hard labour for a term of three years for each ofhmce, the sentences to inn concurrently. Oth kk Casks. — Henry (Jibbs, a young man with a heavy moustache and good address, pleaded guilty to a charge of having, on the 19th December last, broken into a building belonging to George Saville, at Aratapu, and stolen spirits, cigari, etc. His Houorsaid that as it was the pvisouev's fivst offence, and lie was comparatively ji young man, he would. give him the light sentence of twelve months' imprisonment. — In the jewe^*y robbery from the steamer WelH^^n, all the prisoners but Dean were co^icted and senteuced to terms of from rive years downwards.