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New York Herald - Saturday, May 25, 1895
LONDON, May 24, 1896. Upon the resumption of the trial of Oscar Wilde, in the Old Bailey Court to-day. Sir Frank Lockwood, Solicitor General, made application to the Judge for therein statement in the case of the evidence in regard to Shelley, which the Court eliminates from the case yesterday. The Court refused to grant the application.
Sir Edward Clarke then opened the case for the defence. He complained of the unjust manner in which the prosecution of the case had been conducted and declared that because of this the defendant could answer to only a remnant of the charges.
PHYSICALLY WEAK.
Wilde was then called to the stand and repeated the testimony he gave at the previous trial. Wilde was physically weak and was allowed to sit while testifying. He was cross-examined by Sir Frank Lockwood, who questioned him in regard to his letters to Lord Alfred Douglas, in which he wrote: "I know that Hyacinthus, who was loved by Apollo, was you in the Greek days."
Wilde said he referred to an old poetic idea, not to a sensual, ignoble love. Regarding the young men he had met in Taylor's rooms he said he had not asked their business. He liked them, he said, because they admired and praised him. He repeatedly denied that he had been guilty of any misconduct.
LOCKWOOD CAUTIOUS.
Wilde's testimony brought out nothing new. Sir F. Lockwood, throughout his cross-examination, carefully avoided giving the defendant any opening for a literary speech. Sir Edward Clarke, in his speech to the jury on behalf of Wilde, maintained that the coherent account which Wilde had given of his relations with Taylor and others entitled his word to be accepted in preference to the allegations of a horde of blackmailers who had long been the pests of London.
Sir Francis Lockwood was addressing the jury when the court adjourned.
LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS SORRY IT WAS NOT HE WHO "CORRECTED" HIS FATHER. [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.]
PARIS, May 24. The Figaro publishes a telegram from Lord Alfred Douglas, a son of the Marquis of Queensberry, demanding an apology from the paper for having alleged in its columns that he was concerned in the Picadilly fracas with the Marquis of Queensberry.
The telegram, which is dated at Rouen, adds that Lord Alfred greatly regrets that it was his brother and not himself who corrected his father on that occasion.
The Ottawa Citizen - Saturday, May 25, 1895
Paris, May 24.- The Figaro publishes a telegram from Lord Alfred Douglas, son of the Marquis of Queensberry, demanding an apology from the paper for having alleged in its columns that he was concerned in the Piccadilly fracas with the Marquis of Queensberry. The telegram, which is dated at Rouen, adds that Lord Alfred regrets that it was his brother and not himself who corrected his father on that occasion.