BRITISH JUSTICE

Evening Star, Issue 19765, 16 January 1928, Page 5

BRITISH JUSTICE

DELAY IH APPEAL CASE CONSIDERABLE CRITICISM. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 14. John Rowlands, one of the three condemned men, has lost his reason, and will be confined in Broadmoor Asylum. There is considerable criticism of the delay of thirty-seven days in hearing the appeal, which was dismissed on Thursday. This, it is stated, was due to the intervention of the Christmas holidays. The newspapers declare that it is not in accordance with British justice that there should be such a long delay and consequent suspense. The other two have been tkaon to Cardiff to await execution. [A cable message from London on November 29 stated that four racecourse frequenters bad been charged at the Glamorgan Assizes with the murder of David Lewis, a Cardiff footballer. The prosecution described it as the most brutal and beastly murder imaginable. The four surrounded Lewis, who was a fine athlete, and hold his arms behind his back, and deliberately cut his throat. Then they left him to die by the roadside. The prosecution contended that the whole four were guilty of murder. John Rowlands. Edward Rowlands, and Daniel O’Driscoll were found guilty, and William Price not gnilty.]