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Sydney Evening News - Tuesday, May 21, 1895
London, May 20.-- Oscar Wilde and Alfred Taylor were this morning again placed on trial at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, charged with offences under the 11th section of the Criminal Law Amendment Act.
Mr. Justice Wills presided, and in his charge to the Grand Jury suggested that the cases should be taken separately.
The Grand Jury having found true bills against both accused, it was decided to take the case against Taylor first.
Sir Edward Clarke, Q.C., who with Mr. Travers Humphreys appeared for Wilde, opposed this course, but subsequently asked that Wilde's case should be postponed until the next sessions, which commence on June 17.
Mr. Justice Wills said that before deciding he would wait to see the result of the trial of Taylor.
It afterwards transpired that counsel for Wilde had asked that the cases might be tried separately, but the Crown favored a joint trial.
The trial of Taylor was then proceeded with.
Charles Parker and Alfred Wood, two young men, gave evidence similar to that given by them at the previous trial as to the conduct of Wilde, to whom they were introduced by Taylor at the latter's rooms in Little College-street, near the Houses of Parliament, and their evidence was unshaken on cross-examination.
The Daily Telegraph - Wednesday, May 22, 1895
LONDON, Monday, Noon.— Oscar Wilde and Taylor were again placed on trial at the Central Criminal Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Wills. When charging the Grand Jury the judge suggested that the cases be tried separately.
It was decided to take Taylor's case first. Sir Edward Clarke, Q.C., opposed this procedure, but subsequently asked that Wilde's matter might be postponed until the next sessions.
The judge said that before deciding he would wait to see the result of the investigation into the charges against Taylor.
LONDON. Monday. 2 p.m.— It appears that the counsel for Wilde asked that the accused might be tried separately, but the Crown favored a joint trial.
(These messages appeared in a second edition yesterday).
LONDON, Monday Night.— The evidence of Parker and Woods with regard to their conduct with Wilde in Taylor's rooms, remains unshaken.