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15/10/1945 Charge fails: soldier’s evidence is surprise to solicitor
07/07/1946 Councillor sentenced
18/07/1946 Councillor’s appeal
06/04/1947 Teacher bound over
21/09/1947 Stoker got £6,000, three years’ sentence for blackmail
23/11/1947 Victim in tale of a trap is acquitted
30/11/1947 Preyed on others: gaoled men told their conduct was a menace
13/12/1947 Bodily harm – but there were “mitigating circumstances”
07/04/1948 [no headline]
30/05/1948 House of Commons official accused: remanded on bail
13/06/1948 ‘Ruin’ of a Commons official
04/07/1948 Vicar fined after shopping trip: plea of police error
26/09/1948 Viscount wrestler accuses guests: says home was robbed
13/10/1948 Found guilty of serious offence
20/10/1948 Bound over for serious offence
19/12/1948 ‘The Guv’nor’s’ pose to trap victims: ticket-of-leave man was a society playboy and racegoer
30/03/1949 Twickenham man on serious charge
27/04/1949 Ham telephonist fined £10
30/04/1949 Charge dismissed
04/05/1949 [editorial]
07/05/1949 Clerk fined £10
11/05/1949 [headline missing]
15/05/1949 Guardsman in Park arrests
27/08/1949 Youths for trial
18/09/1949 Court gives advice to ex-Scout leader: shun youth movements
19/10/1949 Two years’ probation
07/01/1951 Is park peeping a crime? Question to be argued
14/01/1951 Police agree ‘peeping’ is no crime
25/02/1951 Psychologist is accused: police tell of denial
18/03/1951 Flat was watched from fire escape: two accused
25/03/1951 Psychologist: 8 charges
15/04/1951 This was the story of a ‘lost soul’
29/04/1951 Five troopers punished by court-martial
03/06/1951 5 years for psychologist: ‘a dangerous man’, says judge
23/09/1951 Ex-guardsman asked about the perils of Piccadilly
28/10/1951 Retired commander is cleared: jury stop case
10/02/1952 Oscar Wilde quoted at Major’s trial
16/03/1952 Her woman friend cleared in ‘initials only’ suit
25/05/1952 Clerk lured to a West-End flat
08/06/1952 Six men write down their names
22/06/1952 Pub raided after 5-day watch
27/07/1952 Police look over a wall: B.B.C. men warned
17/08/1952 Ministry official’s sentence reduced: chief’s evidence
28/09/1952 “Pest-hole” says detective: tube station watch
19/10/1952 The customer wasn’t just right
26/10/1952 Remanded men in women’s clothes: after week in prison
02/11/1952 Hero in female clothes gaoled
11/01/1953 M.P. changes plea to ‘not guilty’
18/01/1953 Police story of box & cox watch on M.P. in West End: charges denied, constable admits a lie
25/01/1953 M.P. to appeal against Bow Street conviction: peculiar and unusual story, says Q.C.
22/02/1953 M.P.’s appeal dismissed
15/03/1953 Man at the foot of the bed, says Mr. X
05/04/1953 Rendezvous at Speakers’ Corner
02/08/1953 Priest told he needs advice
16/08/1953 M.P.’s appeal lodged
13/09/1953 Raid on a public house: licensees summoned
27/09/1953 Alleged to have been nearly penniless
04/10/1953 P.C. fined
11/10/1953 A priest’s lost week-end
11/10/1953 M.P.’s appeal is dismissed
14/10/1953 Labour M.P. to resign
17/10/1953 Beaulieu – another man is wanted
23/10/1953 P.C. shone torch in West End
25/10/1953 West End public house “pests”
25/10/1953 Sir John Gielgud told ‘see doctor’
25/10/1953 Vice victim of blackmailer
25/10/1953 Musician accused
06/11/1953 D.S.C. had thirst for knowledge: court plea
13/11/1953 Rector is sent for trial
29/11/1953 Trial of rector is adjourned
06/12/1953 Jury disagree over rector
13/12/1953 Plea to stop rector case: second jury diagree
20/12/1953 Rector acquitted at third trial: no evidence offered
20/12/1953 Musician is sent for trial
10/01/1954 Teacher acquitted on appeal: allowed costs
31/01/1954 Six months’ for pianist: talented musician
17/03/1954 ‘Unashamed’ – Montagu case witness
18/03/1954 Detectives searched homes without warrants
21/03/1954 6 months for ship’s doctor
28/03/1954 Man pretended to be hypnotised
04/04/1954 A hypnotist thanks judge
04/04/1954 A preacher and proud of it
11/04/1954 The man with many friends
02/05/1954 The songs the police heard
23/05/1954 No songs by beefy baritone
06/06/1954 The doctor’s curiosity
13/06/1954 Warning to blind physiotherapist
20/06/1954 20-year sentence cut to 3 years
25/07/1954 Teacher destroyed his career
01/08/1954 Magistrate stops case against archdeacon
15/08/1954 Help for him – not punishment
26/09/1954 Songs in the saloon bar
14/12/1954 The bridegroom was a woman
19/12/1954 Surprise for the police in Mayfair
02/01/1955 Coffee stall in Soho…
02/01/1955 His friend was found dead
16/01/1955 A pact to die alleged
23/01/1955 D.F.C. broke probation
13/03/1955 A loathsome type of blackmail
24/04/1955 Policemen gaoled on menaces charge
05/06/1955 The value of his job
26/06/1955 No lady, said the policewoman
07/08/1955 Dr. X and a night in the West End
11/09/1955 What about the victim if the blackmailer can’t sleep?
15/01/1956 Surprise for woman P.C.
05/02/1956 Weng Kee Sam gets £1,600 damages
24/06/1956 Hands and the man
09/09/1956 ‘Mr. X’ says he was blackmailed for return of £200
04/11/1956 Men who prey on guardsmen
24/11/1956 Found not guilty
24/11/1956 Fined £5
12/01/1958 In an ‘eerie half-world’
06/02/1958 Groups ‘ fight against vice: London cleanup
14/03/1958 Seven years for blackmail: demands on "man of eminence"
23/03/1958 This isn't a game replied the policeman
02/04/1958 [Flavus Column]
09/04/1958 Letter: Hampstead News, by S Valdar
27/04/1958 They knew him as ‘Dad’
11/05/1958 Husband in notorious spot
18/05/1958 See your doctor dentist told
01/06/1958 Dressed as a girl - with all the trimmings
01/06/1958 -
13/07/1958 The well-spoken bachelor advertised for a help
29/08/1958 Man tells of attack In park
01/09/1958 'Tailed' her uncle and unveiled blackmail
04/09/1958 Stepney vice: Mr Butler’s talks with delegation
09/09/1958 Letter: London “menacing place”: male prostitution, by J W Day
12/09/1958 Letter: Male prostutes, by M de-la-Noy
21/09/1958 His knife was as sharp as his wits, he said
06/10/1958 Vicar is fined
16/11/1958 The boy soldier changed overnight
20/11/1958 Junior minister accused of offence in the park: he and guardsman remanded
21/11/1958 Junior minister and guardsman remanded
21/11/1958 Minister is accused with guardsman
21/11/1958 MP and guardsman accused: junior minister on ‘offence in park’ charges
21/11/1958 MP is accused of indecency in Royal Park: junior minister and the guardsman
23/11/1958 The schoolmaster's day In London
23/11/1958 Remand on bail for M.P.
23/11/1958 But for the grace of God [editorial]
23/11/1958 [John Gordon column]
25/11/1958 Mr Ian Harvey resigns: premier thanks him for work
05/12/1958 MP against relaxing law homosexuals: moral stigma would be lifted
10/12/1958 Ian Harvey fined £5: one charge dropped
10/12/1958 Ian Harvey [and the guardsman] fined £5
14/12/1958 [John Gordon column]
04/01/1959 Just nosey, he stayed to watch
09/01/1959 Blackmailer 'bled' In terror of phone
10/01/1959 He met a dark stranger and was blackmailed for 2½ long years, by L Kirby
10/01/1959 £8,800 by "slow torture": seven years for blackmailer
10/01/1959 His years of torture end
10/01/1959 £8,800 obtained by blackmail: 7-year sentence
10/01/1959 The man afraid of a ring at the door, by A Latcham
11/01/1959 The ‘imprudent’ visitor to London is acquitted
11/01/1959 A slow, calculated merciless process of torture…
16/01/1959 The breeding places of crime [editorial]
08/03/1959 Two of the tweed set
03/07/1959 Ex-batman Is bound over for 20 years: blackmail case
21/09/1959 Clergyman's ex-valet
03/10/1959 Letter: Street offences, by S Stokes
10/10/1959 Letter: [title missing], by B Thompson
10/10/1959 Letter: [title missing], by A Hallidie Smith
17/10/1959 Letter: Street offences, by C Allen
24/10/1959 Letter: [title missing], by H Smith
31/10/1959 Letter: [title missing], by C Fremlin
20/11/1959 Stripped and robbed man In forest
01/04/1960 Wandsworth Common man fined
14/04/1960 “Christianity and the homosexual”
14/04/1960 Law on homosexuality ‘encourages blackmail’
14/04/1960 Law on homosexuality unjust, says priest
15/04/1960 ‘Encourages blackmail’
21/05/1960 Letter: The ‘Sixties and the ‘Seventies, by A Halladie Smith
08/07/1960 Guilty plea to indecency
08/07/1960 Depressing indecency
08/07/1960 Explains that he panicked
15/07/1960 Vote
05/08/1960 The vicar has written to his MP
09/08/1960 Letter: [no title], by D Kepper
09/09/1960 Indecency by men
24/09/1960 Man not guilty but bound over: procedure under 1361 measure
08/10/1960 Absentee held
21/10/1960 ‘Dated’ by doctor, man alleges
22/10/1960 Men fined for indecency
28/10/1960 Indecency charge
04/11/1960 Indency by men
14/01/1961 Student denies £2,000 demand: Mr X a witness
14/01/1961 £2,000 demand from yacht owner alleged
20/01/1961 Alleged incident at cinema
17/03/1961 Men’s indecency
07/04/1961 Appeals against indecency verdict
26/05/1961 Claims innocence
27/07/1961 Men described as ‘filthy beasts’
18/08/1961 Pensioner fined
25/08/1961 Alleged offence against policeman: man sent for trial
06/10/1961 Letter: Stop being hypocritical, by R E Davies
27/12/1961 Midnight in soho, by W J Wetherby
12/01/1962 A police case flops and men gets cost
11/03/1962 Letter: Blackmail, by “Engineer”
11/03/1962 Ashamed to tell women of his past
16/05/1962 Sir Ian Horobin on indecency charges
18/05/1962 Inquests theory of sex practices
18/05/1962 Sex theories in “carbon copy murders”
01/06/1962 Retired man accused
05/06/1962 Sir Ian Horobin is - court story
05/06/1962 Former M.P. Sir Ian Horobin is accused
06/06/1962 Charges of indecency against Sir Ian Horobin: youth aged 17 also before court
06/06/1962 Sir Ian gave me trip in his rolls: accused ex-MP hears boy tells court
06/06/1962 Boy tells of trip in rolls: Sir Ian Horobin on five charges
10/06/1962 Club boys accuse ex-M.P. warden
18/06/1962 Sir I Horobin: vicar gives evidence
18/06/1962 Vicar tells of talks with Sir Ian Horobin
18/06/1962 Vicar gives evidence in ex-M.P. case
18/06/1962 [headline partly missing]
18/06/1962 'Too old to change now', said Sir Ian: vicar speaks in Horobin case
19/06/1962 Sir I. Horobin: vicar gives evidence
19/06/1962 A vicar's 'advice' to Sir Ian
17/07/1962 Ex-MP gets 4 years: Sir Ian Horobin is sent to jail
17/07/1962 4 years for 62-year-old former M.P.
18/07/1962 Sir Ian Horobin sentenced to four years imprisonment: former M.P. admits offences with boys
18/07/1962 Sir Ian jailed for four years, by Arthur Latcham
18/07/1962 Former M.P. gaoled for four years: indecency case
20/07/1962 Boy 'was more sinned against'
22/07/1962 The downfall of Sir Ian: who almost became a peer, by Jack Aitken
16/09/1962 Goings on at the Kandy Lounge
06/12/1962 Steptoe actor “thought it a nightmare”
22/01/1963 Youth cleared of Brinham murder
22/02/1963 Letter: Reform Society’s disclaimer, by A Grey
02/03/1963 Civil servant’s “great career snapped”
07/03/1963 Youth drove while under ban: Mr Fletcher-Cooke’s car
12/03/1963 Three get costs against police
12/03/1963 Deny ‘slap’
11/05/1963 Accuser to remain anonymous
14/05/1963 Civil servant wins his appeal
21/05/1963 Guardsman sent to prison
24/05/1963 A ‘new thrill’ reply quoted to court
20/06/1963 ‘Political chicanery’ alleged
20/08/1963 “Place becoming an absolute sink”
23/08/1963 Toilet incident
23/08/1963 “In 99 cases out of 100”
20/09/1963 Accused man found dead
20/09/1963 Indecency admitted
08/11/1963 Heroes of the sixties...
29/11/1963 Letter: National campaign is overdue, by A Grey
19/02/1964 To jail in women’s clothes and wig
03/03/1964 ‘Detective lied’ law student alleges
10/04/1964 Adults get blame for 'wild ones'
12/07/1964 Peer and a gangster: Yard probe: public men at seaside parties
13/07/1964 Slit-tongue revenge on a squealer, by Norman Lucas
13/07/1964 The peer and the gangster, by Victor Knight
13/07/1964 Peer and M.P. 'went to gang party', by John Ball
13/07/1964 M.P. asks about protection money
13/07/1964 Press reports denied
14/07/1964 Yard chief's denial: no-no-no to peer and gangster story, by Keith Renshaw and Reginald Foster
14/07/1964 Sir Joseph makes 3-point denial
14/07/1964 London vice reports: Commissioner's statement
19/07/1964 Henry Brooke and the unpublished picture, by James Margach
22/07/1964 London's hidden problem part three: in the big city - less fear, less solitude, by Anne Sharpley
23/07/1964 London's hidden problem part four: the big 'if' that hangs over hopes of a cure, by A Sharpley
23/07/1964 Gangsters and peer storm; vice story editor denies pressure
24/07/1964 The press, by Randolph s Churchill
24/07/1964 Wolfenden and the 'scandal', by Ian Gilmour, MP
27/07/1964 Into the twilight world, by N Thomas London Bd
29/07/1964 Henry Brooke and that picture
01/08/1964 Letter: the subject of rumours: allegations denied, by Boothby
01/08/1964 Boothby sensation: 'tissue of atrocious lies', he writes of his amazement at seething rumours
02/08/1964 Lord Boothby
02/08/1964 Lord Boothby and that letter, by Peter Earle
03/08/1964 Lord Boothby talks of picture with ex-boxer, by David Thurlow
03/08/1964 Peer denies homosexual imputation of London paper
03/08/1964 Aged peer denies 'atrocious lies'
04/08/1964 Boothby with [headline torn]
04/08/1964 Letter: London's hidden problem, now readers have their say, by Harry Philips London
04/08/1964 Letter: London's hidden problem, now readers have their say, by O Phillips London
04/08/1964 Letter: London's hidden problem, now readers have their say, by Annie Harbin
04/08/1964 Letter: London's hidden problem, now readers have their say, by John Clements
04/08/1964 Letter: London's hidden problem, now readers have their say, by R F
04/08/1964 Letter: London's hidden problem, now readers have their say, by L F Watling
05/08/1964 Lord Boothby on M.P.s' visit: told of rumours
06/08/1964 Apology, £40,000 & costs for Boothby:
06/08/1964 Boothby gets apology and £40,000
06/08/1964 [headline missing] qualified Boothby
06/08/1964 Mirror pays Ld. Boothby £40,000: an unqualified apology, "completely unjustified"
06/08/1964 Lord Boothby is paid £40,000
08/08/1964 Homosexuals prefer to call themselves the 'gay people'
09/08/1964 Lord Boothby: an unqualified apology, by Cecil H King
16/08/1964 Polluted
17/08/1964 Smeared Peer revenged: Britain
13/11/1964 Secret meaning of ads in window
24/11/1964 Jail for man who wants to be a woman
27/11/1964 Misbehaved near bandstand
23/04/1965 Letter: lesbianism, by M Morrison
06/07/1965 Solving those youthful fears, by Monica Furlong (column)
03/09/1965 Sex laws ‘out of touch’
15/10/1965 Confrontation at lunch-time
18/02/1966 23 to 2
15/03/1966 Rector defends reform on homosexual law
29/03/1966 Preacher invites down-and-outs to pop session
15/11/1966 Accused Minister collapses in court
18/11/1966 Letter: wrong values?, by Geoffrey P T Paget King
25/11/1966 Letter: “an invasion of privacy” (name not published)
02/12/1966 ‘Sink of filth’: coffee bar man jailed
29/12/1966 For ‘with-it’ mums and housewives
27/01/1967 The homosexual in society today
09/04/1967 Club for peepers: telescopes, hides and sandwiches for the spies
12/04/1967 Two men fined in indecency case
18/05/1967 All clear for homosexual reform: A Campbell without the stutter at the feet of the oracle
27/06/1967 Invited to Australia
29/06/1967 ‘Dangerous’, warns MP
11/07/1967 Homosexual seeks monastery place
13/07/1967 The case of the undone mini-dress: surprise for the lorry driver
30/11/1967 Queen mother praise for centre’s work
01/12/1967 A club in Soho with only one sign of sin, by Michael De-la-Noy
14/01/1968 Homosexual touting in UK: ‘yard’ inquiry
26/01/1968 Ex-naval officer sent for trial
27/01/1968 Guards vice charges: one for trial
27/01/1968 Former naval officer sent for trial
28/01/1968 Clean up this cinema of vice: ‘other places have the problem’
02/02/1968 3 guards, company director for trial
03/02/1968 Director and guardsman for trial
04/02/1968 Laurence Bell flies to Brazil
09/02/1968 Landlady’s ‘love nest’ allegation: I don’t understand – tenant
22/03/1968 Tragedy of a woman who looks like a man
03/05/1968 ‘Advertisements for men’ report goes to police
06/05/1968 Director is fined £700 in guards case
06/05/1968 Interior decorator fined £700: invited guardsmen to country homes
06/05/1968 Guards case chief fined £700: troopers did it ‘simply for the money’
07/05/1968 Director fined in £700 in guardsmen case
07/05/1968 Doctor fined for indecency with guards
07/05/1968 Man in vice case with guards is fined £700, by Arnold Latcham
07/05/1968 Designer paid guardsmen for indecency
07/05/1968 Director fined £700 on indecency charges
07/05/1968 Guardsmen case man fined £700
07/05/1968 Soldiers ‘in vice probe took money’
08/05/1968 Trooper found not guilty
11/05/1968 3 guilty of homosexual charges: Judge Graham Roberts
02/08/1968 In Hampstead: talking out the teenage problems, by Joan Woollcombe
06/09/1968 No attendants for toilets: Decision after complaints by residents
06/09/1968 ‘No change’ in toilets staffing plans
11/09/1968 In trouble
20/09/1968 Letter: those certain advertisements
04/10/1968 Housewives protesting again
11/10/1968 All quiet on the heath . . .
18/10/1968 Toilets: a council hearing
18/10/1968 Letter: What’s good about King’s Road?, by Chelseaite
01/11/1968 Vice on Barnes Green charges ‘exaggerated’
01/11/1968 No wide-scale vice here council told
15/11/1968 Toilet not be closed
21/11/1968 Bought obscene book in post
05/01/1969 Twilight girls who turn to lesbianism
06/01/1969 The twilight world of the homeless city girls: drugs, violence and lesbianism trap the ‘rootless’ teenagers
07/01/1969 Teen girls in ‘twilight world’
15/01/1969 The fourth sex: twilight girls . . . the tragic misfits in our midst, by Graham Gambie
14/03/1969 Vicar plans chit-chats for sexual deviants
18/03/1969 Church plans to lend an ear
21/03/1969 Londoners will see Sister George scene
11/04/1969 Police saw male couples dance and kiss
12/05/1969 Letter: Staggered, by A R Buttle
30/05/1969 Marine indecently assaulted detective
05/06/1969 Usherette aged 80 upstages hecklers
24/07/1969 Dancing men kissed at Stud club – court told
24/07/1969 Dancing men kissed at Stud club – court told
25/07/1969 Dancing men kissed at Stud club – court told
25/07/1969 Need to readjust moral sights, QC argues defending club owner
29/08/1969 Tried to distribute leaflets in tube station
29/09/1969 Crossman will look at doss house where 800 queue
08/10/1969 To where the streets are paved with loneliness . . .
24/10/1969 Common ‘a gathering point for homosexuals’
24/10/1969 Queensmere – an international rendezvous for homosexuals: conservators told
24/10/1969 Personal freedom ‘eroded’
25/11/1969 Pc’s killer sent to Broadmoor
25/11/1969 Broadmoor for man who killed P.C. on common
27/11/1969 Letters: Puritans in boots, by Paul Thompson
05/12/1969 Why was killer allowed such freedom?: lawyer – MP calls for inquiry
21/12/1969 Students to defy police over VD leaflet
23/12/1969 Girls defy law just to be helpful
24/01/1915 Not fit to marry: wife with 'platonic views', strange union between artist and actress
27/08/1916 Masqueraded as a man: new story of how a woman was married to another woman, her own narrative of ceremony
02/06/1918 Vision of Salome: honour of a famous dancer impunged, sensational disclosures in amazing trial
07/09/1932 School Girl's suicide: teacher's evidence, questioned on letters
21/07/1935 Lecturer's lapse: "moment of mental aberration", police in waiting after hint in letter
26/07/1935 Lecturer's lapse: in moment of "mental aberration"
26/07/1935 "Mental aberration": lecturer's letter to a youth
26/10/1958 The one room club
13/08/1965 'Powdered and painted men' infected pub
04/05/1949 Male nurse charged
14/12/1954 "Marriage" of two women: certificate obtained by false statements

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