The Yorkshire Evening Post - Monday, May 6, 1895

Messrs. Humphreys & Sons, solicitors, attended at the Law Courts, to-day, and stated that they were prepared with sureties as required for the release of Oscar Wilde by the order made by Baron Pollock on Saturday. Formal application will shortly be made to his Lordship to enter the names on the order. The names of the proposed sureties have not transpired.

Later on Mr. Humphreys again attended before Baron Pollock, and stated that the police were quite satisfied with the bail tendered.

An appearance on behalf of Wilde will be made at Bow Street to-morrow. Both gentlemen who have offered themselves as bail have been notified to be in attendance, and should the presiding magistrate be satisfied with the nature of their bail he will sign an order for Wilde's release, and it is anticipated the prisoner will be liberated the same afternoon. He has suffered greatly from insomnia, consequent on extreme nervous prostration.

Belfast News-Letter - Tuesday, May 7, 1895

Messrs. Humphries, solicitors, attended at the Law Courts, London, yesterday, and stated that they were prepared with the necessary sureties in the case of Oscar Wilde in accordance with the order made in Chambers. Later on the solicitors attended before Baron Pollock and stated that the police were quite satisfied with the bail tendered, and his Lordship then signed the order for the prisoner's release. A later telegram states that an appearance on behalf of Wilde will be made at Bow Street to-day. Both gentlemen who have offered themselves as bail have been notified to be in attendance, and should the presiding magistrate be satisfied with the nature of their bail, he will sign an order for Wilde's release, and it is anticipated that the prisoner will be liberated the same afternoon. He has suffered greatly from insomnia, consequent on extreme nervous prostration.

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