Editor Parke Held For Trial

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Commitment of Editor Parke for Trial for Criminal Libel.
LORD EUSTON GIVES HIS REASON WHY.
England.

EDITOR PARKE HELD FOR TRIAL.


LONDON, Nov. 27. - Mr. Parke, editor of the North London Press, was again arraigned in the Bow-street police court yesterday on the charge of criminal libel preferred against him by the Earl of Euston. The Earl in his testimony admitted that he had visited the house in Cleveland Street where the alleged unlawful practices are said to have taken place, but claimed that he visited there for a lawful purpose.
Accounting for his visit to the house in question, Lord Euston said that while walking in Piccadilly one evening a stranger accosted and handed him a card on which was printed: "Poses Plastique Hammond, Cleveland street." One night about a week afterwards he went to the house indicated, and rang for admittance. A man opened the door and demanded a sovereign admission, which sum he paid. Lord Euston asked to be shown to the room in which the posing was to take place. The man answered that no such performance was to be given, but that there were some boys in an adjoining room, whereupon Lord Euston threatened to knock the man down. He then left the house and did not at any time thereafter return.
Mr. Parke was committed for trial.

Source: The Quincy Daily Herald, November 28, 1889, page 2

Note: Seeing as the knowledge of Morgan's murder by Freemasons was the "secret of a Knights Templar", I would hazard an opinion that the truths behind this particular incident were also.