gave him the proofs, and betrayed his accomplices. Even then it was necessary, if a social scandal were to be avoided, to use very delicate agencies for breaking-up the scheme. The high hierarchy of the church was called into help. A— and B— were both rescued, from an affair that neither of them fully had divined, and that never was fully explained to them. The actors in the drama who were its main-springs, hastily left the city. The intimacy between A— and B— was however presently completely broken, as an inevitable and prudent consequence. Later both these friends married. The entire affair was one of quite unusual social complexion, audacity and skill. It was known to some outsiders only on the death of One of the persons officially concerned in its devolution.
The Uranian
World and
Murder.
But we must invade deeper the Inferno of homosexual perils and crimes. We have seen that the blackguard of Uranianism may be an able-bodied villain, disposed to assault his prey—physically. When a homosexual hints in such society that he carries valuables or cash, let him look to them; not to say to his life! Along with forcible or other robbery, can come murder. Or such murder may be matter not of burglary or robbery, but of really homosexual passions—revenge, jealousy and other motives. Such assassins are not always of base station. We have previously touched on murders by companions of princes and noblemen, high officials, and churchmen and professional men. But we are dealing for the moment, with especially the darkest paths of the homosexual labyrinth. The reader will meet plenty of examples of "Uranian murders" in such German publications as the "Jahrbuch" mentioned; in the curious monthly bulletin of homosexual data taken from the current newspaper-press, and entitled "Mittheilungen des Bundes für Männliche Kultur,"
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