San Francisco Mail News
CLEVELAND-STREET SCANDAL C. R. Hammond, who is implicated in the Cleveland-streeb (London) scandal, as the keeper of the house concerned in the affair, was interviewed at Seattle, U.S.A., when he said to a reporter : “I authorise you to deny emphatically in my name that I ever received assistance from the British Government while in Belgium, or was aided in any way by the Consulate or Legation in Brussels to leave that country. When I kept the house on Cleveland-streeb, London, 1 was in a very bad condition of health. In fact), during a period I was almost entirely paralysed and could nob leave my room except) by being - carried out. My eyes were so weak I was practically blind. All this I can prove by the testimony of several leading London physicians, among them Dr. Clarke. “ Under these circumstances I cannot be held responsible for what was going on in •mv house. The gentlemen who lived in the Cleveland-streeb house were at full liberty to do whatever they liked. They had their own latch-keys, enabling them to enter and leave at any hour. My house in this respect was nob different from innumerable London houses. It is absolutely untrue that a sovereign was asked of visitors at the door. With regard to the news that Lord Somerset was one of my guests I can only say I am not aware of this fact., I don’t know how Lord Somerset looks. Two brothers lived in the house for some time, and three other young men whose families are well known to Londoners.
“ The whole move against me is simply a political one. The way in which testimony is obtained is very peculiar. It will be sufficient to nil the initiated to state that the man Saul, who was a witness in the Dublin scandals, was also the chief witness in the present affair. My impression is that a good deal of perjury has been committed.. If my business affairs would permit I wor.ld not mind going back to England to testify myself. In fact, I have lately thought of doing so.”
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 462, 12 April 1890, Page 6
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