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LONDON'S GREAT SCANDAL.

The Public About to be Treated to Another Sensation.
[Copyright 1890 by James Gordon Bennett.]

LONDON, Jan. 4. - [New York Herald Cable - Special to THE BEE.] - Another sensational episode in the Cleveland Street scandal is about to burst on the public. Twenty-two of the men implicated, nobles and otherwise, have just fled England. It is said that by the time Scotland Yard has finished none of the Cleveland Street habitues will be left in England. The police know all about the case and have the names, description and identity of the offenders. In the first place all the boys were captured and made to confess. Some knew names and others gave accurate descriptions, enabling the police to shadow the parties to their residences. Their addresses were thus secured. Others were only suspected. To these men letters were written, giving them so many hours to get out of the country. Of the twenty-five suspects recently warned, twenty-two fled, showing the remarkable accuracy of the boys' information. The total number of absconders is sixty.

Source: The Omaha Sunday Bee of Sunday, January 5, 1890

London's Great Scandal.

LONDON, Jan. 7. - The trial of Arthur Newton, solicitor, Frederick Taylorson, his clerk, and Adolphus De Galla, interpreter, on the charge of conspiring to defeat justice in connection with the West End scandal, was continued before Magistrate Vaughan in the Bow Street police court today. An ex-postal messenger named Perkins testified. After he had given his testimony to the police Newton tried to induce him to go to Australia. Newton said he knew somebody who would give £ 20 down and £ 1 a week expense for three years to himself (Perkins) and other boys. Wright, Swinscow and Barber, who had given information to the police, if they would emigrate together.

Source: The Salt Lake Herald of Wednesday, January 8, 1890

LABOUCHERE NAMED

For Suspension for Questioning Salisbury's Veracity.

A WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT

LONDON, Feb. 28. - Labouchere, in the commons, spoke to his motion of inquiry into the Cleveland Street scandal. He detailed the facts of the scandal. The treasury officials, having full knowledge of the whole affair, refrained from prosecuting Newemive and Veck until Blackwood, secretary for the post office, had insisted upon taking action against his own subordinates. Then finding themselves compelled to prosecute these men, the treasury officials determined to prevent the exposure from going any further and tried to hush it up. When Hammond fled to Belgium there was no difficulty in the way of securing his extradition, but Salisbury, through the treasury officials, wrote declaring he could not ask extradition. Hammond went to America, and in all this, as to information and otherwise, was assisted through Newton, solicitor for Lord Somerset. The object of the government was obviously to hunt Hammond beyond the range of extradition. When the chief of police reported to the treasury the evidence in the hands of the police involving Lord Somerset and others, the treasury ordered the police to desist from watching the case, and Somerset obtained a horse guards' four months' leave of absence to enable him to quit the country, and Salisbury being informed of this through Sir Dighton Probyn, stated that a warrant would be issued, but he caused this decision to become known to Lord Somerset's commanding officer, through which this information was conveyed to Somerset. Thereupon Somerset fled. He is not only allowed to resign his commission and leave the army as an honourable officer, but is at this moment still a magistrate in two counties. Labouchere said Salisbury and others had criminally conspired to defeat the ends of justice, therefore he asked for a committee to inquire into the allegation.
Webster, attorney general, said he believed the house would agree with him that there was not the shadow of a foundation for these disgraceful charges. It was absurd to suppose that Salisbury or the treasury officials could have interfered in the prosecution of this case. In conclusion, he said he himself had direct authority to contradict the allegation that Salisbury had spoken to anyone regarding the issue of a warrant.
Labouchere said he could not accept Webster's assurance, nor did he believe Salisbury, whose denials were obviously untrue.
The chairman requested Labouchere to withdraw the words calling into question the veracity of the premier. Labouchere declined and the speaker named him for suspension. Upon division, suspension was carried by 177 to 96.
Smith demanded that the house express its opinion on Labouchere's motion, notwithstanding its withdrawal, and should say the motion was improper and the charges false. The vote against Labouchere's motion was 163 to 80.
T.P. O'Connor, continuing the debate, said he knew the name of Labouchere's informant, and which Labouchere had offered to give Webster, and that was one that carried conviction as to the correctness of the statements that had been made, Smith asked O'Connor to give the name in the interest of justice. O'Connor declined, upon the ground that the name had been imparted to him in confidence. Other members having demanded a committee of inquiry, Smith, on behalf of the government, declined to allow persons against whom there was no evidence to be pilloried and gibbeted, and perhaps ruined for life. He claimed the judgement of the house on Webster's answer. A motion to report progress was lost by 204 to 82. The chairman then put Labouchere's amendment proposing a reduction of the credit, and Smith moved closure. This the chairman declined to put. The discussion continued, and finally under closure, proposed by another member, Labouchere's amendment was rejected. Labouchere's suspension is for one week.

Source: The Salt Lake Herald of Saturday, March 1, 1890



Labouchere on Hammond's Escape.

LONDON, March 5. - Labouchere, in an interview on the subject of the Cleveland Street scandal said it could not be denied that Hammond was assisted to escape. The books at Cook's offices, he said, show that Newton, solicitor for Lord Arthur Somerset, bought tickets to America for Hammond and a boy who accompanied the latter in his flight. There are also a number of letters which prove that Hammond was assisted to leave the country. Labouchere said it was untrue that Hammond was paralyzed. On the contrary he was always in good health, and was well aware of everything going on in the Cleveland Street house. Hammond's wife and sister, who kept house for him, also knew the character of the place. Labouchere has not heard of Beseridge's House in Euston Road, and was skeptical to its existence. He suggested that a cross examination of Hammond and the boy who fled with him to America would elicit valuable information.

Source: The Salt Lake Herald of Thursday, March 6, 1890

ONCE MORE IN TROUBLE.

Hammond, of London Scandal Notoreity, Jailed at Seattle.

Seattle, Wash., Nov. 26. - [Special Telegram to THE BEE.] - Charles K. Hammond, who became somewhat notorious on account of his connection with the Cleveland Street scandal in London and who came here over a year ago, is again in trouble. He now occupies a cell in the county jail on the charge of grand larceny, preferred by Mrs. Augusta Simmons, a barkeeper's wife, who accuses him of stealing her sealskin sacque, valued at $350, and a gold watch. The theft is alleged to have been committed in Hammond's saloon October 1. Hammond was arraigned last night and held for trial in $1000 bonds, which he was unable to furnish.

Source: The Omaha Daily Bee of Thursday, November 27, 1890


A POPULAR CRUSADE

The Heir To The English Throne Denounced.

The Playing of the Air "God Bless The Prince of Wales," Elicits Hisses - The Religious Denominations Incensed.
[Special to THE HERALD - Examiner.]

LONDON, June 17. - The popular crusade against the Prince of Wales shows no signs of abating in strength or bitterness. After a lecture delivered Monday night at Carnarvon, Wales, by Henry M. Stanley, the band played "God bless the Prince of Wales." The Welshmen, however, no sooner heard the first strains of the familiar air than they raised a storm of hisses which almost drowned the noise of the band.
In a letter published today in the Pall Mall Gazette, the writer asks why a captain in a household regiment who is wanted by the police in connection with the Cleveland Street scandal, and who is now residing in Tunis, should have been allowed to resign when Sir William Gordon Cumming was dismissed from the army for his share in the Tranby Croft scandal.
At the last setting of the Bermondsey vestry the discussion turned entirely upon the baccarat scandal and the parties connected therewith. Dr. Esmond moved in energetic terms that the gambling propensities of his royal highness the Prince of Wales are a disgrace to a civilized country and an evil example to the youth of the nation. He also moved that copies of this resolution be sent to the speaker, the lord chancellor and her majesty the Queen. Another member asserted he saw Dr. Esmond wink as he moved the resolution. Dr. Esmond replied indignantly that he objected to interruptions from the flunkies of royalty, whereupon Mr. McCarthy moved the board proceed to the next business on the roster. Dr. McNamar protested against this proposal as a dirty trick to stifle discussion. After a very noisy scene Mr. Glanville said it was a quite natural thing the Prince of Wales, who was one of a system of a sponging, loafing monarchy, should find some means of getting rid of the money given him by the English people, money torn from those who labored and toiled.
Amid a scene of great disorder, the chairman put the amendment which was carried but the row continued to be so violent that the meeting had to adjourn.
Lord Arthur Somerset, of Cleveland Street scandal notoreity, has lately been heard from at Tunis, where he is living in company with Broadley, the English lawyer, who defended Arabi Pasha. Both Somerset and Broadley are reported as well satisfied with life in Tunis, and are not likely to soon brave the danger of returning to London, where the police hold warrants for their arrest. Broadley is also under accusation of crimes committed in India and Turkey, as well as in Ireland. It is rumored Hammond, who fled to America after the Cleveland Street expose, has secretly returned to London.

Source: The Salt Lake Herald of Thursday, June 18, 1891