THE AGAPEMONITES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 266, 6 November 1905, Page 4

THE AGAPEMONITES.

That stupendous and almost incredible illustration of human fatuity on the one hanri, and of hitherto unimagined possibilities ia the way of tne most infamous blasphemy and immorality on the other, the so-called "Agapemone," the" Abode o! Love," still continues to occupy a prominent place in public attention. In plain t«rms, the ttory is one of monstrous and horrifying blasphemy, and sickeningly abject credulity. The horrifying thing is chat net merely pure young girls have been deluded or hypnotised by this blasphemous impostsr, bub also many respectable and quite sincere married women, each of whom has left husband, children and home in obsdience to an imagined Divine call to j An the scandalous harem of this scouudrel. I need hardly aay tbac in every case the woman has possessed striking personal beauty and an ample share of this world's goods. In all instances they positively refuse to leave the villian who has victimised them, and in mauy cases even their whereabouts is successfu;ly concealed. A !oud demand baa arisen for some effective interference on the part of the State, failing which the^e is every reason to anticipate—l should rather say to bope—that the husbands of some of Pigott's victims will take matters into their own hands aed administer to him a ehatisement of the only kind that such a fellow would re&liy feel. They might safely do so, for assuredly no English jury would be induced to convict them of any offence for thus acting.—London correspondent.