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The Irish News and Belfast Morning News - Monday, May 20, 1895
LONDON, SATURDAY.Since he was admitted to bail Mr. Oscar Wilde has been staying with his mother, Lady Wilde, at her residence in the south-west of London. Messrs. Humphreys & Sons, his solicitors, state that their client will surrender at the Old Bailey on Monday prior to the trial, fixed for eleven o’clock. So far as can be ascertained Wilde and Taylor will be arraigned together. The case will, it is expected, be disposed of in three, if not a couple of days.
Sir F. Lockwood, Q.C., M.P.; Mr. H. Sutton, Mr. Gill, and Mr. Horace Avory will prosecute; Sir Edward Clarke, Mr. Charles Mathews, and Mr. Travers Humphreys will defend Wilde; and Mr. Grain will defend Taylor.
The Exchange Telegraph Company says:—Few of the original charges will be preferred, and it is further confidently reported that several of the witnesses for the prosecution have eluded the observation of the detectives engaged to look after them, and are now missing.
Dublin Evening Telegraph - Monday, May 20, 1895
London, Monday.At the Central Criminal Court this morning, before Mr Justice Wills and a jury, Oscar Wilde, author, and Alfred Taylor, were arraigned on indictment charging them with various acts of impropriety. Wilde, who was accompanied by his two sureties, Lord Douglas, of Hawick, and Rev Stewart Headlam surrendered to his bail shortly after half-past ten o’clock. The Court was densely crowded.
The Solicitor-General, Mr Sutton, Mr Gill, and Mr Horace Avory prosecuted for the Crown; while Sir Edward Clarke, and Mr Travers Humphreys defended Wilde, and Mr Grain appeared for Taylor.
Sir E Clarke applied that the defendants should be tried separately, on the ground that there was no single count standing in the indictment on which both Wilde and Taylor could be convicted.
The Solicitor-General opposed.
His Lordship said he had anticipated some such application, and he thought it would be fairer that the defendants should be tried separately.
The Solicitor-General said he proposed to try Taylor first.
Sir E Clarke submitted that as Wilde’s name stood first on the indictment, and that the first count was directed against him, he should be tried before Taylor.
His Lordship said it was within the rights of the prosecution to elect which defendant should first be tried.
In reply to Sir E Clarke, the judge said he was willing to renew Wilde’s bail.
The charges against Taylor were then proceeded with.
Questioned as to other matters, Parker said he was in the army at the time when Mr Russell, solicitor, took a statement from him. He told Taylor that his father was a trainer of horses and lived at Datchett.
William Parker, the brother of the last witness, gave evidence in corroboration.