notice.  Here again, I have received neither 
acknowledgment nor reply. 
 
8.  Such persistent silence, whatever its explan-
ation, compels me to bring the essential issue 
to your notice in this more public matter. 
 
Your editor asserts that Mr. Crowley has 
served a prison sentence in America for pro-
curing young girls for infamous purposes. 
 
The truth is that Mr. Crowley has never 
been so much as accused of any crime before 
any court in any country in the world. 
 
Now no honest person can pretend for a mo-
ment that any legal process is needed in order 
to expose the absoluteness of this particular lie. 
A criminal conviction is a matter of public 
record, and such an allegation as your editor 
has made is capable of rigorous proof or disproof, 
like any other matter of officially recorded public 
history. 
It is this obvious fact, instantly felt by every 
reader, that makes this lie so dastardly.  Every 
reader instinctively assumes that neither care-
lessness nor malice could print a downright lie 
in a matter which is so vital, and which can, 
from its very nature, be so conclusively ascertain-
ed.  Every reader assumes that no editor could 
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