VIOLENCE BY MOBS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18244, 10 November 1922, Page 5

VIOLENCE BY MOBS.

INDIVIDUAL LIABILITY. J^'*

GLASGOW MUKDER CHARG&S? \ : The liability otJndividual members of a VV#? mob whose violence leads to death to b* vv ; charged with murder is emphasised by a Glasgow episode. A man who was sus-, ! pected of kidnapping a boy was .so r .f' severely mauled by a.street crowd that ho died later from'the> injuries he re- - ' ceived.? "The Glasgow police arrested two- ,- jyoung men who were alleged to have T-"% taken part in the mobbing of the -man. and they levelled against thcai the fuM charge. of murder. '" ! * The two men, James Stevenson, 21 years c. of age, and Robert Carkie, 30 years, both v ., evidently of the labouring class, were brought before the magistrates in Glasgow >" and Formally remitted the.fiKerift. v They - • were charged with having, oa September »■; 11 " assaulted Robert Alexander Stewart, > beaten him with their fists, - knocked him down, kicked Mm, and murdered him." ;. ,r The Court proceeding, which lasted only a few minutes, attracted a great deal of j attention. Friends of the accused ,/. fathered in large numbers inside and out- ;..,, side tbe courthouse. The bearing of ths /, men indicated that they were, feeling . acutely the st-ain. of their position. ~.---- The practice in Scottish criminal oases of a serious nature is for pn»M"j£_B?.-/ passed from the *#*** 'ftffS' and afterwards to the High , Court «,.. Justiciary. ♦he-body of the by any weapons usea oy !»»» .^v nutted the assault. ■ . . _ :. .. "«i^