Daily Republican., 1885-07-11
TheLondon Crimes.
CARDInAL MANNING sUPPORTs
TIE FALL NALL GAZETTE IN
ITS ORUsA DE.
ANOTHER EXPOSURE LIST.

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newspaper sensation exploited In Lon
don for many years. the Pail Mall
Gazette's exposure of what 1t terms the
Ma iden Tribute OF the Modern Baby.
lon," was prefaced last Saturday by an
announcement printed in the Gazette's
boldest type, and emphasized by lavish
under lining.
The notice announced that, owing to
the Threatened abandonment OF tho
Criminal Law Amendment bill, the
Gazette proposed to publish the report
Of . special and secret commission of in
Quiry which the editor had appointed
to investigate the whole subject fully,
freely and fearlessly. The announce
ment WAS followed by q clever caution,
which read as follows
We advise the squeamish and the
prudish not to read the Pail Mall Ga.
zette next Monday or the three follow.
ing days. The stOry Of the pilgrimage
into real hell is not pleasant reading
II is not meant to be. 1t 10, however, q
record of unim peachable facts, unutter.
ably abominable, but true, and their
publication is necessary"
MRS. JEFPREys' EXPOSURES.
Mrs. Jeffreys, shortly before her con-
victisn, testified that unwillingly re-
cruits were shared by advertisements |
from the country. They were usual y |
engaged az servants at first, but, after |
being taken to the places where they |
were supposed to render service, we're
made drunk or drugged and forced or i
cajoled into sacrifice which, while in
their senses they could never have been
induced to make. A girl named " An
ME-" l5 years Of age, whose family
ia xptthha1d hnt ~uh ohor
acter IL certified to by her Sunday
school teacher, tells the following story
| of the manner in which she was entrap-
ped:
IA young girl friend, whom had
known for long time, asked ME to
take walk with her, which / did.
She induced me TO enter restaurant,
where we met an old gentleman, who,
my friend said, WAS her uncle. We
dr. ank several kinds of wine. merely
tasted mine at first, but was persuaded
to finish my glass. My head got very
queer and hardly knew what | did.
My friend said {: Annie, come up
stairs / said What for?' Never
mind she replied. you will get lots Of
money My head was queer and WAS
dazed, but still had misgivings that
1t was not right for me to 60. My friend
insisted and L finally went. The man
she called her uncle followed us. We
went into room, where my friend be-
gan to undress me. What are you
doing? You must not struggled
hard, but became dizzy and at last lost
my senses altogether. When l
came to myself the woman who Kept
the house gave me 81, half of what the
man had given her. don't know the
man and have never seen him since"
IN FASHIONABLE LONDON.
negotiations in the West End were
carried on in the most open manner .and
the writer says he never experienced
iany difficulty in negotiating for a fresh
in the course of his Investigations that
the most wicked Of the agents were
women who, while doing chores about
town were enabled to make the &C
quaintance OF girls. These agents re
ceived from IS TO IS for each one
Many different instances were brought
10 light and the prices verified.
III the summary of conversation
with one of the agents the mos,
shocking feature was the complacency
with which the woman regarded hel
, avocation. She offered as an excuse fol
1 engaging in her business that she wat
ldriven Into 1t by poverty.
- The Pail Mall Gazette gives to day
an account of transaction with Mes
danes y and u, known in certain cir
cles as the leading agents in Europe,
and it is incidentally mentioned that
Madam X started in business in 1881,
after having been herself victim at
O the age of 16. The commissioner who
was Investigating this branch of the
:, & aZette mission became a customer OF
Mes,lames Xsnd T. Agirl was brought
- according to agreement to his rooms
, and with her came physicians Ger.
tificate stating that her age WAS IA and
that she was what the gentleman had
stipulated for. The girl stated to the
commissioner that her mother was ly.
o ing dead and that she had gone out tt
lprocure assistance when she fell in tht
} hands of decOys, who took her to Nine
q N's establishment. The missioner
took the girl to his home and subse
quently had her placed in good hands
MANNING AIDS THR GAZETTE.
The writer then gives an interview
with Nine. X in which q complete OK
q posure is made of the system, showing
\ That in the experience OF this notoriou
agent, q procuress had no difficulty II
d lproyiding from 800 to 700 victims an
nually to her patrons, among whom
were some of the wealtniest commoner
and most famous mobiles o. England
Cardinal Manning has accepted tht
proposition made by the proprietors Q
the Pail Mall Gazette to submit proof
of all its revelations, including ever,
r name and detail, to q party of responsi
be men, to include the Cardinal an
Ie Mr.. Samuel Morley, the examiners t
IN have the privilege Of reporting to tn
public upon the affairs ss they ma
st deem best.
IA In its pub lication to-day the Gazett
IVA not only gives receipts and CONTRACT
ST which its reporters have obtained froI
the procurers, but list of the name, {
q girls between the ages OF 13 and 10 WI
had willingly made bargains with u
agents and were waiting TO be calle
upon to fulfill their part OF the contrac
Most of these girls were partly I
wholly ignorant of the nature OF u
N sacrifice they were called upon to mai
or else had been reared in such a wa
c by vicious parents that they attache
no value to what they were easil
S. induced to sell for &3 or &c. In 1
to leading article the Pail MALL GaZet
says:
s. "The report of our secret commissio
will he read with shuddering horr'
n and will send a thrill of indignaI
r. shame throughout the world, but IL
~ GOOD 1t will do By its manifest an
al sickening revelations cannot fall
touch Enclishmen. Terrible as is II
exposure, the very horror OF 1t IL a
inspiration. 1t speaks not OF leade
despair, but with joyful promise
better things to come. We may excut