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The New York Herald (European Edition) - Wednesday, May 8, 1895
LONDON, May 8.––Mr. Vaughan accepted Oscar Wilde’s bail at Bow Street yesterday morning, and early in the afternoon he was released. The bail was fixed at £2,500 in Wilde’s own recognizances, with two sureties of £1,250 each. The two sureties were Lord Douglas of Hawick and the Rev. Stewart Headlam. The sureties afterwards proceeded to Holloway Jail and accompanied Wilde back to Bow Street to be formally set at liberty.
Wilde looked brighter and not much worse for his incarceration. The Rev. Stewart Headlam, in an interview as to his action, says: "I have undertaken this responsibility on public grounds. I felt that the public mind has been prejudiced before the case began, and I anxious to give Mr. Wilde any help I could to enable him to stand his trial in good health and spirits."
Sunday World - Sunday, May 12, 1895
Oscar Wilde was released from Holloway Prison on bail at 1 55 on the afternoon of Tuesday last. His two sureties were Lord Douglas of Hawick, and the Rev Stewart Headlam.
The Rev Stewart Headlam, interviewed at the close of the proceedings as to the reasons which induced him to become surety for Wilde made the following statement: "I have undertaken this responsibility on public grounds. I felt that the public mind had been prejudiced before the case began, and I was anxious to give Mr Wilde any help I could to enable him to stand his trial in good health and spirits."
On leaving Bow street a free man Oscar Wilde, with Lord Dougls of Hawick and the Rev Stewart Headlam, entered a cab, which was drive at a rapid pace to the Midland Hotel at St Pancras, which was reached about three o’clock. Here rooms were engaged by this lordship. Apparently a consultation was held between Wilde and his sureties, for it was not until four o’clock that the Rev Stewart Headlam left the hotel by the main entrance. Later on in the afternoon Wilde was visited by an old personal friend, and he was also busily engaged for a considerable time with two of Messrs Humphreys and Sons’ clerks over his private affairs, and the pending new trial. He was stated to be suffering from extreme prostration and weakness, and quite unable to undergo the fatigue of an interview. Wilde’s solicitors, at their client’s own request, have intimated to the authorities that they are perfectly prepared to keep them fully informed as to his movements and precise whereabouts between now and the 20th inst. When Wilde will in due course give himself up to the police.