Algernon Allies Testifies

The London Scandal.

LONDON, Jan. 6. - The trial of Arthur Newton, solicitor, Frederick Taylorson, clerk, and Adolphus DeGalla, interpreter, arrested on a charge of conspiracy to defeat justice in connection with the West End scandal, began before Magistrate Vaughan at Bow Street police court today. A lad named Algeron Allies testified that he resided in the Cleveland Street house and received money for immoral purposes. He destroyed letters which he had received from Lord Arthur Somerset. Allies admitted that he had stolen valuables from the club in which he had been employed as waiter. He was not imprisoned for the thefts, Lord Arthur Somerset becoming his surety. Witness stated that subsequent to the expose of the scandal Taylorson tried to induce him to go to America.

Source: The Deseret News, January 7, 1890, Page 2