We can come down the social scale to the very bottom and find the same practice.

A certain journalist unwittingly offended a great personage.

Immediately he was warned by the police that a warrant issued against him in India seventeen years before would at once be acted upon if he did not make himself scarce.

For some time he lived in peaceful retirement in Belgium.

Moreover, in all these cases the warrants had been issued on the sworn complaints of the parties damnified or of their parents and guardians: no one had complained of Oscar Wilde.