Investigative journalism
On 21 August 1892, [[Henry Labouchère]] published an article in the [[Investigative journalism|investigative journal]], "[[Truth (British periodical)|Truth]]", exposing the Society as a [[fraud]]. The Hon. Secretary of the Society, Dr Edward Albert Sturman, M.A., F.R.S.L. had been following the example of a 20-year contemporaneous swindling operation entitled the "International Society of Literature, Science and Art", known as the "International", a hollow money-making venture in which the novelist Sir Gilbert Campbell was used as bait. William James Morgan, William Tolmie and others were tried and imprisoned for [[deception]] and fraud. The International and the SSLA were not rivals: while his swindle was still functioning Tomie has written to Sturman in friendship, saying, "There is plenty of room for both of us, and though we work on somewhat similar lines, they need not be opposing ones."