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The Freeman’s Journal - Saturday, May 18, 1895
London, Friday.
A rumour is current in legal circles to the effect that a number of the important witnesses on behalf of the prosecution in the Oscar Wilde case to be tried at the Old Bailey will not answer to their names at the trial on Monday.
The Evening News - Friday, May 17, 1895
[...] Agency says there is a sensational rumour current in legal circles to the effect that a number of the important witnesses on behalf of the prosecution in the Oscar Wilde case, to be tried at the Old Bailey next week, will not answer to their names on the day of the trial.
The second trial of Oscar Wilde and Alfred Taylor will be commenced before Mr. Justice wills and a jury at the Old Bailey on Monday next at half-past 10. The Solicitor-General (Sir F. Lockwood, Q.C., M.P.), Mr. H. Sutton, Mr. Gill, and Mr. Horace Avory will appear to prosecute on behalf of the Treasury; Sir Edward Clarke, Q.C., M.P., Mr. Charles Mathews, and Mr. [...] will defend Wilde; and [...] will appear to defend Taylor.