W.T. Stead as described by his Peers

“Stead was impossible as a colleague: he had to work single-handed because he was incapable of keeping faith when excited; and as his hyperaesthesia was chronic he generally was excited. Nobody ever trusted him after the discovery that the case of Eliza Armstrong in the Maiden Tribute was a put-up job, and that he himself had put it up. We all felt that if ever a man deserved six months’ imprisonment Stead deserved it for such a betrayal of our confidence in him.” George Bernard Shaw