St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-10
London Still Quaking From Center to Cir
conference From the Startling
Disclosures.
Street Vendors of the Pail Nall Gazette
Being Arrested for Selling That
Publication.
The Rich and Prominent Men of the
City Dared TO Commence Legal
Proceedings.
An Explanation Given to the Public
as TO How the Facts Were
Obtained.
Londnn,s Sensation.


bated. The demand for copies of the pa
per is enormous. Large crowds surround
the publishing Office and extra police have
been ordered on duty TO keep pasSageways
open through the surrounding streets and
TO protect the Pail Mall Gazette building
from being approached by persons having
no legitimate business therein. The crown
lawyers are considering the advisability of
prosecuting the publishers of the Gazette
and their decision is awaited with
anxiety. Two newsboys were arrested
and fined this afternoon for creating
disturbances by demanding 25 cents per
copy for to-day's issue of the paper.
A number of other venders, ar
rested on similar charges, were remanded
for trial. The Right Hon. George A. Ben
timex, Conservative member of parliament
for Whitehaven. and formerly Judge advo-
cate general, published a letter in to-day's
St James Gazette. denouncing the conduct
of the editors of the Pail Mall Gazette. Mr..
Bentinck alleges that Mr.. Stead, chief
editor of the Pail Mall Gazette, on the Sth
of June requested an interview with him
upon the subject of the criminal law amend
ment bill. Il received him." continued
Mr.. Bentinck, ''at my house and answered
all his inquiries on condition that the infor-
nation gave him should be considered as
absolutely confidential. Mr.. Stead accepted
his conditions without reserve, but last night
he violated his promise by publishing pri-
yate letter on the subject which lent him. +"
In defense of its course the Pail Mall Gazette
this afternoon publishes a number of letters,
written on commendation by peers, bishops
and members of the house of commons,
emitting the names. In addition to these
the Gazette publishes approving letters from
the Rev. DR.. Lawrence, a professor in the
university of Cambridge, and from a num-
Der of other Distinguishing clergymen of all
denominations, and several ladies. 1t also
reproduceS articles favorable to its course
from the Christian religious newspaper,
the Western Mercury and the Belfast News,
together with letters of protest from Mr..
John BuntOn, Liberal member of parlia-
ment for Kidderminster, and other persons
of prominence. The Pail Mall Gazette this
evening publishes an editorial thanking the
city authorities for attempting to suppress
the sales of the paper, Thereby breaking
the conspiracy of silence maintained by the
press concerning the Gazette's revelation.
POLICE SEIZURES
of newspapers are common in Vienna, {"
continues the Gazette, ''but such high out
RACES on the freedom of the press should
not have been possible in London" =
VI MdSllS Wal d1dlllSl SlICGl
vendors let the authorities take action
against the responsible parties in this bust
ness. 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 MS
after having charged in open court that the
Pail Mall Gazette was an obscene publica-
cation" = 1--WE reluctantly adopted
this mode of publicity in order to arouse
men to just sense of the horrors existing
all around them. Now, the more publicity
the better. We are prepared to prove our
statements. We can summon witnesses
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" ~ 'sLet those
who do not wish to shake the very founda-
tions of social order think twice before
compelling us to confront in court
BRoTHEL KEEPERS
with princes of the blood, and prominent
public men with the victims of their law
less vice" Northumberland street. where
the Pail Mall Gazette Office is located, has
all the afternoon been packed from end to
end with mass of excited people As
many as 5000 news vendeTs have at times
been in the crowd. elbOwing and otherwise
struggling for opportunities to purchase the
Gazette to sell AT one time the pressure
of the crowd was so great that all the lower
windows of the Gazette building were
crushed in. When the doors of the publi-
cation Office were opened for the sale of the
first edition this afternoon, there was tre-
mendous rush for the papers, during which
women and boys were knocked down, trOd-
den upon, and in many cases badly injured
Despite the extraordinary preparations to
meet the public demand, which the expert
ence of the past days has taught the prOpri-
etors of the Gazette TO make, the sales this
afternoon soon exhausted the edition, and
the supply of paper giving out, the papers
were stopped for several hours before the
requisite additional supplies could be pro-
cured. The paper makes no new revelations
to-day, but confines itself TO a defense of its
course and to bidding the authorities def
ance. 1t promises
FINAL INsTALMENTS
of revelations for tomorrow. The director
of the Pail Mall Gazette inquiry commits
sion, through which the relations were OBJ
tanned, writes concerning the whole matter
as follows: Investigation began on May
"a and the work was unremitting 10 date.
The commission had valuable assistance
from the Salvation army, from the London
committee for the suppression Of traffic in
English girls and from the vast experience
of Mrs. Josephine Butler. The commits
sion was composed of persons of the Ga
zette's staff. and acted independently of the
police. The home Office deprecated.
on official grounds. allowing Journalists
to interview the police. The commission
applied to the archbishop of Canterbury,
the bishop of London and Cardinal Man
ming for advice. and these great authorities
on morals, while depTecating the risks in
volved in the commissions task. all warmly
supported its object. Ready help was ac-
corded TO the commission from Catholic and
Congregational clergymen; also. from the
Minors Joint Protective committee, the
White Ribbon army, the Society for Pre-
ventiOn of Cruelty TO Children, the London
City mission, the Reformatory Refuge, the
Union Rescue society, the PierlicO Ladies'
association and the Moral Reform union.
The commission visited all the hospitals.
homes and refugees where harbor is given
the unfortunateS. The inmates readily
gave all the information in their possession.
Most of their relations were, however, OBJ
tanned
THROUGH INTERVIEWS.
Everybody, high and low. likely to have
information desired by the commission.
from Lord Dalhousie to Mrs. JefferieS, was
subjected to an interview by some member
of the commission. Mrs. Jefferies shed
flood of light upon the whole subject under
investigation. The entire cost of the in
veStigation amounted to 81, 500. Thirteen
newspaper vendors, who had been arrested
for selling copies of the Pail Mall Gazette.
were arraigned before the lord mayor to-day.
The city solicitor, in presenting the cases
against the prisoners, charged them with
publicly selling obscene literature and said he
had marked for the courts perusal passages