The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-21 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday a man named James Taylor• was
charged with stealing a box coat from the carriage
of the Right Hon. Robert Peel, at his residence,
Privy-gardens.
David Jones, one of Mr. Peel's servants, stated
that on Monday last between 11 and 12 o'clock, he
buckled the coat in question to the dickey of his
master's carriage.
Benjamin Cole, another servant, deposed that he
missed the coat from the dickey, and in a few
minutes after it was given to him by a servant of
Lord Farnborough, who detected the prisoner in
the act of cat rying it away. The carriage was wait-
ing to convey Mr. Peel to Windsor.
Thomas Dawson, servant to Lord Farnborough,
met the prisoner at the back of Whitehall Chapel,
with the coat under his arm. Suspecting that he
had stolen it, witness took him into custody.
The parties were bound over, and the prisoner
committed to take his trial at the ensuing West-
minster Sessions.

MARYLEBONE.
John Elmore, a ballad-singer, was charged yes-
terday before Mr. GRIFFITH with stealing a large
quantity of apples, and some Siberian crabs. He
was brought to the office at an early hour, with his
plunder, by Webster the officer, who met him on the
towing path of the Regent's canal, between six and
seven o'clock, and apprehended him on suspicion.
The gardens within the district of this office have
lately been robbed to a most vexatious degree, and
the difficulty of speaking to the fruit's identity has
in some cases enabled the thieves to escape. In
this instance the impudence of the prisoner, and a
little disaster which befel his coat on a former occa-
sion, put aside all uncertainty, and he was made the
object of summary punishment, under the statute 7
and 8 of George cap. 29, sec. 42.
The garden is at No. 23, North Bunk, Regent's-

nark, and belongs to Mrs. Burrow ; and her mother, a
lady ailv,inced in years, was brought forward as a wit-
ness. She had nothing to say respecting the present
ti ; Sil..!Z hen strawberries
were in season, at an early hour ore morning, from
her eharelier she 'aww• the prisoner in her tltigliter's
prilell gathering haul ;oys and pines,—some he ate,
and many more he placed upon a handkerchief.
She threw up the window, and shook her finger at
him. " Good morning to you, madam, good morn-
ing," said he ; and after gathering the curners of his
handkerchief into his hand, he shook the bundle of
fruit at her in bravado, and got over the pales into
the towing-path. To keep robbers away, tenter-
hooks had been placed in the pales, and as he re-
treated they caught his coat lappet and tore off a
piece, which Mrs. Burrows preserved.
The fruit produced before the magistrate corres-
ponded with the fruit still growing in Mrs. Burrow's
garden, and her maid-servant deposed that she had
seen the prisoner there on three ocesions. That
morning (yesterday), at ten minutes after six, he
was tying up a handkerchief full of apples, and she
cried " Stop thief!" but there was nobody to stop
him, and he ran away over the pales.
'Webster, the officer, gave evidence of die manner
in which the prisoner came into custody as before
stated, and said, " I think, your worship, I have got
a little bit of cloth here, which fits a bole in the lappet
of the prisoner's coat so nicely, that a good tailor
would put it in, and nobody would know it ever had
been out of it." He alluded to the piece of cloth
left in strawberry-time upon the tenter-hooks, and it
fitted the rent in all its unevenness.

Mr. GRIFFITH asked the prisoner is hat he had to
say about the piece of cloth belonging to his coat,
which so fully supported the charge against him of
stealing the strawberries, that nobody could doubt
it ; and whether he wished to contradict any other
part of the evidence ? "As to the coat, your Wor-
ship," replied the prisoner, " I don't care about it,
and it's of no use to say I did not steal the apples,
but I declare I never went into the garden before
for fruit."
Mr. GRIFFITH—You have been seen there re-
peatedly, according to the evidence. Prisoner—For
a few roses, your Worship, only.
Mr. GRIFFITH told him the charge of stealing
fruit had been completely proved, and he com-
mitted him to the House of Correction and hard
labour for three months.