GLASGOWS GOOD NAME

Evening Star, Issue 22572, 13 February 1937, Page 2

GLASGOWS GOOD NAME

A hook published last year, under the title of ‘ No Mean City,’ described in what some readers may have thought too lurid colours the gangster feuds, marked by razor-slashing and bottlefighting, which disfigure the ■ life of Glasgow. It has more than once since its appearance been vindicated by unvarnished reports of police court pro-i ceedings. No longer ago than Tuesday 'of this week the Glasgow gang fights figured in a murder trial in the Glasgow High Court. The gangs in this case were styled the Billy Boys and the Arcadians. A member of one of them deposed that fights between the two were frequent, and that what they usually fought about was “religion.” Another witness declared that he saw one Arcadian jabbiqg the dead man with a broken bottle and a second hitting him over the.head with a hatchet, while a third (according to a further, witness) was striking him;on the head with a poker, Glydesiders are as difficult a set to handle as can be found north or south of Tweed, but Glasgow’s good name is at stake. T]hat great city cannot afford the reputation of the Scottish Chicago.—“ Janus,” in the ‘Spectator.’