The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-23
NEW WORKERS IN lT.
PARED TO PROVE ITS
STATEMENTS.
Obtaining Facts of the immortality
The Case in COurt-The Ledger
AccOuntS-A PiccadiIIY

obtaining Facts of the immortality
The Case in COurt-The Ledger
AccOuntS-A PiccadiIIy
Palace.
The origin of the Pail Mall Gazette's art
icles was in the arrest of a woman known
as MADAM Jeffries" for the abduction of &
young girl from Holland. She occupied
one of the handsomest residences in Picca-
dIlly, but is understood to have owned and
used for her purposes some twenty other
houses IN various parts of London. In her
residence the police seized a number of
large and handsomely bound volumes, in
which she kept a regular debit and credit
account of her business. The entries en-
braced hundreds of names from the most
exclusive circles of London, and among
them several we'll known New Workers, who
visit London nearly every year.
Returning Thanks
The Pal Mall Gazette publishes an edit
orial thanking the city authorities for their
attempt to suppress the sale of the paper,
thereby breaking the conspiracy of silence
maintained by the press concerning the
grave revelations. Police seizures of
newspapers are common in Vienna" con-
inues the Gazette, ''but such h1gh-handed
outrages on the freedom of the press would
have been impossible in London. Instead
of waging war against the street boys, let
the authorities take action against the re-
sponslble 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 GEN.
sure, and we declare that the authorities
are towards, or worse, if they fail to pro-
ceed against us. 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 assail-
ants in the witness box"
The Case in Court.
The city solicitor, in presenting the cases
against the newspaper vendors, charged
them with publicly selling obscene itera-
ture. and said he had marked for the Courts
perusaI passages in the Gdzette'S articles,
upon which the charge vas based. He
must, he said, decline reading the passages
in open court The Lord Mayor thought
it would be best to await the decision of the
Government, which had before 1t Tor con-
sideration the same case.
The proprietors of the Pail Mall Gazette
asked Sir Richard Cross, Home Secretary,
for protection against the crowds surround
ing their publication office.
Getting at the Facts-HOw They Were
Obtained.
The Chief Director of the Pail Mall Gazette
Secret Inquiry Commission, through which
the revelations were obtained writes: ''The
investigation began on May oath. The
had valuable assistance from
the Salvation Army, from the London Com
mittee for the Suppression of the Traffic In
English Girls, and from the vast experience
If Mrs. Josephine Butler. The Commission
was composed of number of the Gdzette's
staff. and acted Independently of the police.
The Home Office deprecated, on official
grounds, allowing journalists to interview
he police. The Commission applied to the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of
London and Cardinal Manning for advice, |
md these great authorities on morals, while |
leprecating the risk involved In the Com |
MISSIONS task, all warmly supported its OBJ
ect. Ready help was accorded to the Com