IMMORALITY IN LONDON.

Otago Witness, Issue 1856, 17 June 1887, Page 13

IMMORALITY IN LONDON.

SHOCKING DISCLOSURES. THE PALL MALL'S REVELATIONS CONFIRMED. (Special to Peesß Association.) London, June 8. Despite the Criminal Law Amendment Bill having become law, London has once ,more been electrified with horror and shame at the continuance of the traffic for immoral purposes in females of tender years. At the Lambeth Police Court to-day, Edward Pocknell and three women were charged with being the occupiers of disreputable houses and having procured girls of tender age. The evidence disolosed that scores of children whose ages ranged from 10 to 14

had .been obtained by the .prisoners for debauched men, who appear to be of a low and depraved rank.'; , The prosecution, which is being undertaken by the Government, has been postponed pending further inquiries. The chief merit in connection with the discovery of this terrible and loathsome business is due to Detective Ktevens, who was employed by the Reformatory and Refuge Union to make investigations. Detective Stevens in his evidence deposed that during the past four years the union had rescued from lives of immorality on the streets 400 girls whose ages ranged from four and a-half to 14 years.