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The Daily Telegraph - Saturday, April 6, 1895
LONDON, Thursday Night.— The hearing of the charge of criminal libel brought by Mr. Oscar Wilde against the Marquis of Queensberry was continued at the Old Bailey to-day.
Evidence was given that the Marquis of Queensberry wrote to Lord Alfred Douglas, his son, to the effect that if the worst were true he would be justified in shooting Wilde. His lordship also expressed the opinion that Lord Alfred was crazy, and suggested that he should leave the country.
LONDON, Friday, Noon.— The judge this morning directed the jury, who returned a verdict of not guilty, and the Marquis of Queensberry was accordingly discharged.
LONDON, Friday, 12.30 p.m.— The jury found that the Marquis of Queensberry was justified in his remarks, the evidence having shown that Mr. Oscar Wilde had habitually associated with the lowest and most notorious immoral men, chiefly servants.
Sydney Evening News - Friday, April 5, 1895
London, April 4. -- The trial of the Marquis of Queensberry for libelling Oscar Wilde was continued at the Old Bailey to-day.
Evidence was given that the Marquis wrote to Lord Alfred Douglas that if the worst were true he would be justified in shooting Wilde. He (the Marquis) believed Lord Alfred was crazy, and suggested he should leave the country.
Prosecutor, re-called, admitted close intimacy with young men who had been introduced to him by Taylor. He had entertained them at dinner at fashionable cafÈs. Several had spent the night as his guests at his hotels, but nothing improper occurred. He was regardless of the social inferiority of his guests if they were amusing.
Letters written by Lord Alfred Douglas were read, in which the latter threatened to shoot his father if he thrashed him.
Some letters of the Marquis of Queensberry read referred to eminent statesmen, but the references to them were only political.
The case for the prosecution having closed,
Mr. E. H. Carson, Q.C., M.P., in opening the defence, declared that Wilde's proteges were among the most immoral men in London. He commented strongly on the fact that the prosecutor had not called Taylor as a witness. Wilde's intimacies were absolutely irreconcilable with his claim as an exponent of culture, and his literature alone justified the action of the Marquis. In conclusion, Mr. Carson said among other witnesses he would call Wood, the chief black-mailer, and would prove his case up to the hilt.