Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-07-10
AT FEVER HEAT.
No Abatement In the Excitement at Lon
don Over the Exposures Of the
"PaIl31all Gazette.-
The Presses Of the Paper Unable tG
supply the Pressing Demands
Of the Public.
The Authorities Defied by the HGazette''
The Matter Brought Up in Parlia-
ment-Wales Implicated.

over the exposure of London secret vice
made by the Pail Mall Gazette continues
| undated. The demand for copies of
the paper is enormous. Large crowds
surround the publishing office, and extra
police are ordered on duty to keep pass
ageways open through the surrounding
streets and to protect the Pail Hall Ga
zette from being approached by persons
having no legitimate business therein.
THE GAZETTE INDoRsED.
The Pail Nall Gazette reproduces
articles favorable to its cause from tho
Christian Ga religious newspaper), the
Western Mercury and the Belfast Ne,os,
together with the letters of protest from
Mr.. John Bierton, Liberal member of
Parlisment, of Kidderminster, and other
persons of prominence.
THE AUTHORITIES AGAIN DEFfED BY.
THE GAZETTE.
The Pail MaU Gazette this evening
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 reve-
latioDs." Police 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
authorities take action against the re-
sponsible parties in this business. If we
have published anything nhsoono let
them prosecute US. We deny that any
thing has been published by US deserving
that censure, and we declare the author
tiles towards, or worse, if they fail to
proceed against US after having charged
in open court that the Pail Mall Ga
zette was an obscene publication. \
I'VE 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 bet
ter. 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."
THE WILD RUSH FOR PAPERS.
5 O'Clock PM = 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
vendors have at times been in the crowd
elbowing androtherwise struggling for
opportunities to purchase copies of the
Gazette to SELL At one time the press
ure of the crowd was so great that all
the lower windows of the Gazette build
ing were cracked. When the doors of
the publication Office were opened for the
sale of the first edition this afternoon,
there was tremendous rush for the pa
pers, during which women and boys were
knocked down, trodden upon, and in
many cases badly injured. Despite the
extraordinary preparations to meet the
public demand, which the experience of
the past three days taught the proprie-
tors of the Gazette to make, the sales
this afternoon soon exhausted the edi-
tion, and, the supply of paper giving
out, the presses were stopped for sew
eral hours before the requisite additional
supplies could be procured.
THE sUBJEor IN THE COMMONS.
Mr.. Albert III. Grey, Liberal member
for South Northumberland, complained
that public access to the Office of the
Pail Nall Gazette was obstructed ailao e.
Sir Richard Cross, Home Secretary,
replied that it was the duty Of the police
, to keep the streets clear and to preserve
order.
Mr.. Albert H. Grey gave notice of his
intention to ask Sir Richard Cross, Home
Secretary, tomorrow, whether orders
had been given by the Home Department
to the police to make every effort posi-
BILE under the law to suppress the abom-
nations revealed in the Pail Mall Ga
3 zette, and whether he intended to intro
duce into Parliament bills for such
amendments to the existing criminal law
as would secure the punishment of the
perpetrators Of the outrages.
HOW THE INVESTIGATION WAS CARRIED
ON.
The chief director of the Pail Nal
Gazette secret inquiry in commission
through which the revelations were OBJ
, tanned, writes concerning the whole mat
ter as follows: The investigation begar
; on May 24th, and the work was unremit
l ting to date. The commission had valu
: from the London Committee for the Sup
I preston of Traffic in English Girls, ant
4 from the vast experience of Miss Jose
I phine Butler. The commission wal
composed of members of the GaseB
staff, and acted independently of tn,
police. The Home Office deprecated, OIL
official grounds, allowing journalist
a 1 TO interview the police. The com
mission applied to the Archbishop
of Canterbury, the Bishop of London an,
Cardinal Manning for advice, and Ties
: great authorities on morals, while depre
9 eating the risk involved in the commits
9 sions task, all warmly supported its ob
= ject. Ready help was accorded to tn
e commission from Catholic and Congrega
T. tional clergymen, also from the Minors
Ribbon Army, the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children, the Lon
y don City Mission, the Reformator
;, n Refuge, the Union Rescue Society
= the Pimlico Ladies Association an
:, the Moral Reform Union. The com
! ! mission visited all the hospitals, home
= and refugees where harbor is given un
q fortunates. The inmates readily CAV
y all the information in their possession
y Most of the revelations, however. wer
Il obtained through interviews. Every
~ body, high and low, likely to have an
information, from Lord Dal ,opsie I
II Mrs. Jeffreys, was subjected to an in
" terview by some member Of The com
mission Mrs. Jeffreys shed a food
light upon the whole subject under il
\. vestigation. The entire cost Of the il
., vestigation amounted to $500.
at NEWSPAPER vENDERs ON TRIAL.
!. Thirteen newspaper ven6ers, who ha
~ ~ been arrested for selling copies of til
- - Pail Mall Gazette, were arraigned befol
10 the lord mayor to- day. The city solicito
in presenting the cases against the pri
IN oners, charged them with publicly seiiir
obscene literature, and SAID ne .sss
az marked for the courts perusal the pa
at sages in the Gazette's articles upon whiC
re the charge was based He must, he sal
decline to read the passages in ope
On court, and said he thought that the rep
n tition of these Objectionable statement
n, with little alteration daily, indicated 1
good object. The solicitor then state
that he would require further time
i consider what charge to formulate again
els the prisoners. The lord mayor said
be ithought it would be best to await the d
he cision of the government, which had b
all fore it for consideration the same cas-
at. The proprietors of the Gazette tod