THE UPLAND ROAD CASE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 191, 2 May 1918, Page 6

THE UPLAND ROAD CASE

Sir,—ln your issue of this morning you give a report of tlio Court proceedings in connection with tlio above case, and you havo very carefully published the names of the girts concerned. Of the guilt or othcrwiso of the girls I havo nothing to Bay. The case will )« heard before a proper tribunal, when 1 havo no doubt a correct judgment will bo arrived at, ia far as the law is concerned. As to whether each or all of the girls were on the. promises for the purpose for which the police allege remains to bo proved. A suspecting public might jump at any conclusion, W rAeanwhile tho evidence is s:i«pende<i. A? is usual, you have in this and in f.i-iUr cases made a 6trong point of &■>.&:.; up the name-s of the women, rhilz sift names of tho men who we imz£ in ihe house aro not mentioned. Ths :ap:«;ion the case makes on my mind is that the authorities were ap'prohsnsi'r* <A (he house being used for a wrong purpose. They find a number of girls, who =.re immediately arretted, and their naia« given out to the public, and what piypo=« £ucn Publication serve-; I cannot tee. _ The men are allowed to go tree. .It was stated they most partmilitarv officers. Is that the i«*-=%ro why thev were not arrestM, or := n tnav tb>s law" is defK-iive- 11 the girls are tasd -«Ms.i.:™o c ? the wlice ranx« i&K=; -wr.i! -^ , - If it is pr u v*i :h*i -br ii« I'W one of ij>ii=«, &ii ™J — character s^r?s' r '--7 J"? 1 ?"' .p 1 lious'e is " car f, t ' x:tw::;.^'rXlthe women BKt pay '.bt prriirr. ostracised, and the mea be al:o*ed to carrv on this damnable business oi £»• ing women a kick into Heil: AYe have heard much maudlin sentiment about tho regulation of vice, the inspection of women, but how otten i. any reference made to the man who invariably is the cause of woman* downfil I stand for the earn.! treatment to bo meted out to the men as lo Hie women. Kd of that, the i*kc, the seducer, Md to Hbetline » often the so-called "best society, while ho women, whom they have mined, aro trampled on iu the gutter. Tho present case is one, 1/huik,,«» calls for some explanation of .the atlioa of tho policc-I am, ctc., &

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