§ MR. D. CRAWFORD (Lanark, N.E.)I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland whether his attention has been called to a complaint, from a public meeting in the neighbourhood, that the police were the aggressors in a disturbance at the mining village of Bothwell Park last week; and whether, in the interests of the public and of the police force, he has made or will make inquiry into this complaint?
§ SIR G. TREVELYANI have received from the County Clerk of Lanarkshire Reports by the Chief Constable in regard to the occurrence referred to in the question, but as I am informed that Crown Counsel last week ordered that four of the persons concerned in the disturbance which then took place should be tried summarily before the Sheriff, and as the whole facts will doubtless be publicly elicited at the trial, it is probably better that I should 996 say nothing further in regard to the case at present.