The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-10
The Paper Returns Thanks for the Efforts to
Suppress Its Sale, and Denounces
the Authorities as COWards.
The Windows of the Publication Office
Crushed by Clamorous Patrons.
Paris Furnishes Highly Sensational Case
of Illicit Love, Murder, Suicide and
Insanity-A Drawn Battle in Peru.
THE LONDON SENSATION.
The Pail Mall Gazette Office Almost Wrecked
by Impetuous Patrons.

by Impetuous Patrons.
LONDON, July 9-The excitement over the
exposures of London secret vice made by the
Pail Mail Gazette continues unabated. The de-
mand for copies of the paperis enormous. Large
crowds surround the publishing Office, and extra
police have been ordered on duty to keep pas
sage ways open through the surrounding streets,
and to protect the Pail Mall Gazette building
from being approached by persons having no
legitimate business therein The Gazette re-
produces articles favorable to it's course from the
Christian religious paper), the Western Mer-
curry and the Belfast News, together with letters
of protest from NJ John Brinton, Liberal mem
ber of Parliament for Kidderminster, and other
persons of prominence. The Gazette, this even
ing, publishes an editorial thanking the city
authorities for attempting to suppress
the sale of the paper, thereby breaking
the conspiracy Of silence maintained by
the press concerning the Gazette's revelations" 5"
'Poce seizures of newspapers are common in
Vienna" continues the Gazette, "but such high
handed outrages on the freedom of the press
should have been impossible in London. Instead
of waging war against street boys, let the author
tiles take action against the responsible parties
in this business. If we have published anything
obscene let them prosecute us. We deny that
anything has been published by US deserving
that censure, and we declare the authorities
towards, or worse if they fail to proceed against
us after having charged in open court that the
Pail Mall Gazette was an obscene publication" !"
"We reluctantly adopted this mode of
publicity in order to arouse men to just sense
&c %to1 ;c1s~1 o11n
the more publicity the better. We are prepared
to prove our statements. We can summon wit
nesses from the Dean of Canterbury and the
Prince of Wales down to Mrs. Jeffries. We will
put our chief informant and his assistants in the
witness box"
Northumberland street, where the Pail Mall
Gazette Office is located, has all the afternoon
beer packed from end to end with a mass of
excited people. AS many as 8, 900 news vendors
have at times been in the crowd elbowing and
otherwise struggling for opportunities to pur
chase copies of the Gazette to sell. At one time
the pressure in the crowd was so great that all
the lower windows of the Gazette office were
crushed. When the doors of the publication
office were opened for the sale of the first edition
this afternoon there was tremendous rush for
knocked down, trodden upon, and in many cases
badly injured. Despite the extraordinary prep
arations to meet the public demand, which the
experience of the past three days taught the pro-
prietors of the Gazette to make, the sales this
afternoon soon exhausted the edition, and, the
supply of paper giving out, the presses were
stopped for several hours before the requisite
additional supplies could be procured.
HOW THE FACTS WERE OBTAINED.
,soe =; IOo11 foIlG
secret inquiry commission: through which the
revelations were obtained, writes concerning the
whole matter as follows: ''The investigation
began on May "a, and the work was unremitting
to date. The commission had valuable assist
ance from the Salvation Army, from the London
Committee for the Suppression of Traffic in Eng
lish Girls and from the vast experience of Miss
Josephine Butler. The commission was COM
posed of members of the Gazette's staff, and
acted independently of the police The Home
Office deprecated, on official grounds. allowing
journalists to interview the police. The com
mission applied to the Archbishop of
Canterbury the Bishop Of London and
great authorities on morals, while
deprecating the risk involved in the commits
sions task, all warmly supported its object.
Ready help was accorded to the commission
also from the Miners Joint Protection Commit
tee, the White Ribbon Army, the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the London
City Mission, the Reformatory Refuge, the I'm
ion Rescue Society, the Pimco Ladies' Associa-
ton, and the Moral Reform Union. The COM
mission visited all the hospitals. homes and
refugees where harbor is given unfortunates. The
inmates readily gave all the information in their
possession. Most of the revelations, however,
were obtained through interviews Everybody,
high and low likely to have information, from
Lord Dalhousie to Mrs. Jetfreys, was subjected
to an interview by some member of the commits
sion. Mrs. Jetfreys shed a food of light upon
the whole subject under investigation The
entire cost of the investigation amounted to
FL, 800"
Thirteen newspaper venders, who had been ar
rested for selling copies of the Gazette, were ar
raigned before the Lord Mayor today. The city
solicitor, in presenting the cases against the
prisoners, charged them with selling obscene lit
erature, and said he had marked for the courts
perusal the passages IN the GaZette's articles
upon which the charge was based. He must he
said, decline to read the passages in open court
and said he thought that the repetition of these
Objectionable statements, with little alteration,
daily, indicated no good object The solicitor
then stated that he would require further time
to consider what charge to formulate against the
prisoners.
The Lord Mayor said he thought it would be
best to await the decision of the government
which had before it for consideration the same
case.
The pro prietors of the Pail Mall Gazette to-
day asked Sir Richard Cross Home Secretary
for protection against the crowds surroundiEg z
their publication Office.
The police continue to arrest all venders found
selling copies of any of the past four days issues
of the Gazette.
| In the House of Commons, Mr. Albert II. O.
| Grey, Liberal member for South Northumber
| land, gave notice Of his intention to ask Sir
Richard Cross, Home Secretary, tomorrow,
| whether orders had been given by the Home De-
| partment to the police to make every effort pos
sible under the law to suppress the denominations
! revealed in the Pail Mall Gazette, and whether
he intended to introduce into Parliament billsfor