Verbatim report of the trial of Noel Pemberton Billing, M.P.
Subtitle: on a charge of criminal libel before Mr. Justice Darling at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey : with report of the preliminary proceedings at Bow Street Police Court, an appendix of documents referred to in the case, reference index. &c
Series: Making of modern law
Publisher: 'Vigilante' Office
Published: 1918
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
Subjects: Trials (Libel); Libel and slander; Homosexuality; Theater; Moral and ethical aspects; Trials, litigation
Notes: "Published by subscription only"

Billing's weekly paper, Vigilante, had reported on an alleged book compiled by German spies describing homosexual debauchery in England, listing 47,000 names, many in high places. A subsequent report on Maud Allan's performances in Oscar Wilde's Salome gave rise to this trial.

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