The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-13 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Payne, Depaty-Aseintant Judge.)

- -- •
Rickard °Wing, the elder, Richard Ilibt ing, the younger,
Frederick Nermaa, and William Stiles, were indicted for
en assault on William Graver, police-constable 319 T, and
Henry Berry, 310 T, in the execution of their duty. Richard
fabling, the younger, was further indicted for an assault
on Jamey Daley, police-constable 198 X, in the execution
of hie duty.

Mr. Cooper prosecuted (instructed by the Treasury);
Mr. Collins (instructed by Mr. Martin, of Kensington)
defended the Giblings ; Newman and Stiles were unde-
fended. Mr. Inspector Locking watched the case for the
police commissioners.
This case was made up of a number of very minute
details, and occupied the court the whole day, but the
facts lie in a small compass. It appeared, from the evi-
dence of numerous witnesses who were examined for the
prosecution, that on the night of Saturday, the 19th of
October, the police-constable Berry, 310 T, was called
upon to take a man into custody for violently striking and
Woking a woman, but this. man so violently resisted that
he was obliged to get assistance. When the constable
Graver came to his assistance they were surrounded by a
mob of "roughs," about 400 or 100 in number, who pelted
them with mud and stones, and some of the constables
were kicked. They also stated that the whole of the pri-
soners were very actively engaged in throwing stones and
taking part in the fray. The row began in High-street,
Notting-hill, and it extended to :several streets in the
I neighbourhood. The whole of the prisoners were taken
into custody and charged for the part they bad respec-
tively taken in resisting and assaulting the officers in the
execution of their duty.
On the part of the prisoners Gibling (father and son),
Mr. Collins called several witnesses who swore positively
that at the time of this row a great mob of the roughest
characters of Notting-hill had assembled, when the man
Jenkins, who bad been brutally kicking a woman with
whocathe 'cohabited, wastaken intocustody ; that they threw
stones and mud at the constables who were taking him to
the station house, and while so conveying him there the
police struck with their staves indiscriminately at those
by whom they were surrounded, sad one of these blows
was received by the younger Gibling, who was then in the
company of his father and Mrs. Huntley, the landlady of
the house where they lodged, they having gone out
together to make purchases for tho Sunday dinner. When
young Gibling was struck by the policeman he, his father,
and Mrs. Huntley ran into a Mr. Clinch's shop, a butter-
man, for protection. Into this shop they were followed
by the constables Graver and Daley, and when the
Giblings saw the constables enter the younger Gibling ran
behind the counter to get away from the policeman, who
was then making towards him. This, according to the
evidence of several witnesses, did not have this effect, for
one of the constables rushed behind the countes, having at
the time his truncheon in his hand, and with this he
gave young Gibling repeated blows on the head,
and afterwards dragged him out of the shop and took
him to the station-house. The elder Gibling told his son
to go quietly to the station-house, as he bad done nothing
when he was assaulted, and he was then also taken to the
station-house. bir. Clinch, the keeper of the shop, bore
his testimony to the brutal treatment the younger Gibling
had received, for while he was crouching down behind his
counter one of the policemen struck him, not once, twice,
or thrice, but repeatedly on the head, and then be was
taken into custody, and Mrs. Huntley was in the shop
while all this beatingi was going on. Mr. Clinch said that
before the crowd came up he saw young Gibling in front
of his shop, and he took no part in throwing stones
or assaulting the police, and he, his father, and Mrs.
Huntley ran into has shop for protection. He told the po-
liceman not to beat the young man, and that if he had done
anything wroto take him into custody. The police-
' man remaine behind his coaster two or three minutes,
and he bad to jump over his own counter before he could
turn the policeman out of his shop.
Mrs. Malley, a Miss Bullock, Mr. Hodges, Mr. George
James, Mr. Degnorthy, Captain Edinburgh, Mrs. Alder,
and other witnesses confirmed this evidence, all stating
that the Giblings took no part in the row, and it was also
shown that the elder Gibling was a painter in the service
of the Greet Western Railway Company, and the younger
Gibling in the service of a large linendraper in West-
bourt.e.grove.
After an absence of upwards of half an hour the jury
returned a verdict of 11'. c Guilty.
Mr. Collins applied that the expenses of the witnesses
for the prisoners should be allowed, as they were evidently
the witnesses of truth.

Mr. Payne said he saw no objection, and ordered them
aoeordingly.