New York Herald - Sunday, June 2, 1895

LONDON, June 1, 1895. Oscar Wilde will serve his two years' sentence in Wormwood Scrubbs' prison. The prison doctors affirm that his heart is weak, and he has therefore not yet been placed on the treadmill, but he has been compelled to pick oakum. His health is broken, and he hardly sleeps.

Taylor takes prison life in a lighter manner. Certain low class papers clamor for the arrest and trial of the known associates of "Cocoa," as Taylor is nicknamed. The police actually arrested several persons but they were afterward liberated, the government being unwilling to create any further social malodor.

The Washington Post - Sunday, June 2, 1895

Oscar Wilde will serve his two years’ sentence in Wormwood Scrubbs prison. The prison doctors affirm that his heart is weak, and he has therefore not yet been placed on the treadmill, but has been compelled to pick oakum. His health is broken, and he hardly sleeps. Taylor, his accomplice in the detestable crimes, takes prison life in a lighter manner. Certain low-class papers clamor for the arrest and trial of the known associates of "Cocoa," as Taylor is nicknamed. The police actually arrested several male street pests, but they were afterward liberated, the government being unwilling to create any further social mal-odor.

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