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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 139, 18 November 1887, Page 2

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Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright The London Riots. THE RIOT ACT READ. STICKS AND STONES USED. j MR GLADSTONE ACCUSED. SPKOIAL TO TRUSS ASSOCIATION London, Oct 14. At tho meeting in Trafalgar square yestorday there wore present some 30,000 persons, mostly respectable spectators. Tho square was encircled by several thousand of police and a strong force of the Horse and Foot Guards, who appeared with fixed bayonets. A magistrate who was in attendance addressed the crowd, and read the Riot Act. The first collision occurred at the Shaftsbury avenue, with 10,000 Clerkenwell roughs, headed by Mrs Besant and Mr W. Morris. A severe fight resulted, the mob making a severe onslaught with sticks, but finally the latter were dispersed. A second collision took place with another procession in the Strand, and sticks and stones were freely used. There were incessant skirmishes in the vicinity of the square, but the mounted police insisted on the crowd moving on. Batons were froely used, but the police acted with admirable moderation. Mr Robert U. Graham, M.P. for Lanarkshire, and Burns, the socialist, were arrested for inciting tho crowd Mrs Besant invited arrest, but the police refused to take her. The worst conflict was near tho Houses of Parliament with tho Lambeth procession. Four hundred arrests have been made during tho day, and two policemen were stabbed. The press commend the action of the polico in the recent riots. Many of the mob wero armed with iron bars, knives, pokers, and pieces of gas-piping. The wounds of the rioters were less severe than those of the constables. The soldiers wore cheered on their appearance by the non-participants in tho riots One rioter was bayonettod. Fifty have beon committed to gaol and tho rest released. Fully aOOO police were ongaged in repressing the disturbances. Nov 15. The Conservative papers accuse Mr Gladstone of inciting the populace to resist the police.

-Soino of tho rioters arrested wore unable to pay the lines imposed, and were, in default, sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from one to six months.