Names Of Patrons Exposed

BRITISH NOBILITY.

A Young Convict Knows Something About Them.

SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 7. - Herbert John Ames, aged 17, who was an inmate of Charles P. Hammond's notorious Cleveland Street House in London and who escaped with Hammond to this country, today made a statement concerning the place. Hammond is under sentence for two years in the penitentiary for grand larceny, and the boy has heretofore been afraid to tell the story because of Hammond's threats of personal violence. He now tells it voluntarily.
Ames was secretary for Hammond and says he wrote many letters last year to many noblemen, demanding hush money. He says about twenty men visited the Cleveland Street house regularly. Many of them were introduced by false names and the names of some were never known.
Among the frequenters he knew were the Earl of Euston, Lord Arthur Somerset, Robert Gervice, the Queen's officer at Winchester barracks, Dr. Maitland of Harvard, Perry Stafford, a London capitalist, Hugh Wadlin, a banker, and Captain Barber of the army.

Source: The Deseret News, January 9, 1891, Page 4