Star. — 1826-04-10 (London, England)

PLD BAILEY. Am* 8.  Clans Hakkens, a Dutchman, was Wed by a Jury consisting of half Eugli,hmen and half Foreigners, for stealing. in the dwelling-house of Mr. John George Fearn, eighty gold rings, value 1001. , and other property. T-e prisoner, about six o'clock on the evening of the 16th of March, entered the shop of the prosecutor, who is a jewella in Cornhill, and risked the shopman to shew him some mourning rings ; he had several on his fingers, and asked to look ac others, as they were too small. The shopman was in the act of reaching ever the tray of rings, when the prisoner snatched up the first tray that had beenshewn to him, containing rings, value 1201. and ran out of the shop. He was pursued down Pope's Head Alley, along Lombardstreet, and was secured at bottom of Sher bornelane ; but be had nothing in his possession at the time he was stopped. The tray was picked up in the street, and also about one-fifth of the rings. The shopman spike with confidence as t the identity of the prisoner. The oisoner, in his defence, said, that he never was in the shop. Witnesses were called to character, and no man could receive a better. It also appeared that he was in the employment of Walton and Co. sugarbakers, up to the sight of the robbery; that he was courting a daughter of a respectable trade man, and was on the point of marriage. The Recommit summed up the case; and said, if the Jury could entertain a doubt of his being the person who committed the capital felony, they would pronounce a verdict is his favour. Verdict-Guilty but recommended to mercy on account of his former character. The Recorder seriously admoMbhed him to prepare  fur the worst. John Chick and George Burke stood indicted for assaulting Mr. Thomas Wardle, a silk mercer, on the King's highway, the 7th of March last, and stealing from his person a gold watch, with appendages, valued at upwards of twenty guineas. The Jury consulted together about twenty minutes, when they acquitted Burke and found Chick Guilty—Deatk. Catherine Clarke alias Pitt, was indicted far violently assaulting hoe Stanley on the King's highway, and taking fromler person a muff and tippet, and Bs.6d. in money. The prosecutri: stated, that she had discharged a hackney coach that she had been riding in, in St. John's street, between ten and eleven rclock on Monday evening last. The prisoner followed her for some distance, as she was- going towards her home in the City-road. When in Wilderness-row the prisoner knocked her cloven And took the articles charged in the indictment from her.  The prisoner in her defence said that the prosecutrix was an unfortunate woman like herself; they were en intimate terms with each other, and had been drinking gin until they had because "elewaited." The prowess& was recalled, and indignantly repelled the accusation, and called the constable and watchman to contradict the sou rtien. Verdict, Gatiley—Droth. Mr. Serjeant A RABIN observed, that she had greatly aggravated the offence by the insinuation she had made against an innocent woman. That she was evidently a most abandoned character, and that it was,not forgotten that she had a narrow escape from forfeiting her life about six years since on a charge of murder, for throwing a man out of a, window in Charles-street, Drury-lane. Jareph Lock and Jaen Sea were indicted foe a burglary in the dwelling house of John Froggittoud stealing two coats, and sundry articles of trifling value. The case was eleariy proved, and the Jury found the prisoner Gad*