The Sun. — 1851-09-26 (London, England)

WORSHIP-STREET. Mr, Edward Nunn, sen., and Mr. Edward .Nunn, jun., cab proprietors and livery stable keepers in the Curtain-road, Shoreditch, were charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt with the following violent and aggravated assault upon Thomas Gouch, a constable of the G division, while in the execution of his dnty. The complainant stated, that while on duty in the Curtain-road, about half. past one o'clock on Saturday morning last, he heard loud cries of " Murder," and " Police," accompanied by a suppressed exclamation of " Oh, don't !" from the defendant's yard, and upon hastening there to ascertain the cause of it was prevented obtaining admission by the gates being closed. He called out that he was an officer and demanded admission, but no notice was taken of it, and, as the cries still continued, he placed his back against the wicket-gate, forced it open, and, upon entering the yard, found the younger defendant holding a man down against the wheels of a carriage and beating him severely with his fists. He ran forward to rescue the man from the ill-usage of his assailant, but was immediately struck by the younger defendant, and the elder at the same time seized him by the neck, and after severely shaking him relinquishing his hold, but was directly succeeded by his son, who quitted the man he had been previously beating, and struck him repeated blows upon the body. He extended his arm to keep him off, reminding him that he was only performing his duty, when the elder defendant again seized him by the neck, and, forcing him back some distance, rapped his head violently against the brick wall several times, struck him a blow under one of his ears, which again dashed his head against the wall, and forced his thumb back with such violence that he was apprehensive for some time it was broken. An active struggle then ensued between them, when several other officers fortunately arrived and rescued him from further illusage, but he had sustained such injuries in the course of the contest that he had been unfit for duty ever since. Symes, 111 G, also deposed to being attracted by the cries of " Murder" in the defendant's yard, and that upon the first witness rescuing the man whom Mr. Nunn, :jun., was beating, the elder defendant came up, seized him by the collar, and threatened to throw him out of the place ; he then left him for an instant, but immediately after renewed the attack, and repeatedly knocked his head against the wall as he had described. The witness added, in cross-examination, that in the course of the struggle the defendant's daughter was thrown down, while be was endeavouring to keep Mrs. Nunn back, and that the reason the defendants were not at once taken into custody was because one of the constables, who arrived at the conclusion of the contest, advised the complainant to take their names and proceed against them.in the:usual course by summons. The evidence of the preceding witnesses was also confirmed by that of two cabdrivers, named Banbury and Raynes, the former of whom stated that he was the person whom the younger defendant was beating at the time of the officer forcing an entrance, and that the cause of it was that, after being out with one of the defendants' cabs from eight o'clock in the morning till twelve at night, he did not bring home a sufficiency of money to satisfy the defendants expectations, upon which, after searching his pockets, they punched him about and beat him in such a manner as to necessitate his calling " Murder" and " Police," in the way the officers had stated. M. D'ExxiCOURT sentenced the elder defendant to