A Martyred Enthusiast

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 69, 19 November 1885, Page 3

A Martyred Enthusiast

tinder the heading of •' A Martyred Bnfchu«ast," the Marlborough Express thus refers to JKe sentence passed pn Mr SteaCd :-— lt is a queer wmmeataiy ondihe/inode m^hich dyilisataon cf f fects its reforms to fuidthat the man whose exertions "have resulted in the passing of a law giving better proteor * wtt to-jouag females from the devibes L cd ! lioßtful scoundrela, and who hasbeen i the mpans of; unveiling a horrible bvb--iem of organised iniquity^in all its. detailsV has been sentenced to three years' imprißonment for the share he J Bo¥in^bl««*O' S^^ffS ttoughnot u»e3^>ected fact, that the

combined efforts of the Home Departj ment, the Magistracy, and the police of Scotland Yard, which not only failed to put down the iniquity referred to, .but actually connived at the crime and | screened the offenders, should have , been used, to crush the man who, more ■ than anyone else, has done the work the authorities should have done, and has lightened their labors for the fut- ! ure. A long continued howl of delight at the conviction and sentence of Mr Stead, the editor of the Pall Mall Gaz»ttef/has no doubt gone iip in every fashionable London brothel and from every titled and monied libertine in England. It is. the old story of the British law; "one man may steal a horse, but another may not so much as look over A hedge."