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Show I A MOST UNUSUAL MOB. There vas a niob in St Catharines. Ontario last night As strange a mob .is ever gathered to do bloody work. The men. with aiurder in t-.eir hearts, and lire in their eyes, did noi put i death the man who had so enraged them that they broke down the barriers r.f law, set fire to the town jail and, grabbing their victim, were proceeding pro-ceeding to the execution when sanity 1 ck possession of the crowd David McNeal, the object of hatred, had been accused of murdering mur-dering 4-year-old Margarel Boucock. At the moment when death itemed inevitable, McNeal screamed 101 mercy and someone in the iob s,id the right thing at the righl time "Give him a chance.' was shouted ami the rioters obeyed. Then McNeal denied the crime and asked for an opportunity: to prove his statement and he was handed over to the police, This is the first time of which we have knowledge of a mob pro-1 eedmg to the point of frenzy, burning, fighting, desperately struggling strug-gling to gaiu the object of its mania and then relenting Mob manifestations are the workings of brain storms in the individuals, in-dividuals, only the loss of deliberate judgment is intensified by the mass effect, and seldom do large bodies of desperate men yield to reason One of the bad features of this disregard of orderly government ', is that the mob prejudges, without full knowledge oi the facts, and then stops at n excesses in order i avenge a wrong, real or imaginary. |