In 1889, a year where sexual acts between men were illegal in Britain, a male brothel was discovered in London's West End. Many of the people who attended the brothel were of high standing, such as Lord Arthur Somerset, who worked for the Prince of Wales. The brothel was discovered because of a 15-year-old telegraph boy, who was found in another investigation having more money than would make sense for his job. The boy admitted that he had earned the money as a prostitute for a man named Charles Hammond, on 19 Cleveland street. Several of the men who were found attending the brothel were arrested, including the telegraph boy. The story was initially hidden by the press, but then newspaper coverage began to come out about the aristocrats who were found at the brothel, and the light sentences they received (because of their status). This added to the general attitude about homosexuality as being related to aristocracy.