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LONDON, May 25. - Oscar Wilde was today found guilty of the charges against him, and, with Alfred Taylor, sentence to two years at hard labor.

Sir Frank Lockwood, in summing up for the crown, denounced Wilde's "prose poems," asking that the jury consider them at their proper level.

The judge, in summing up, said that Wilde had confessed that his conduct in regard to Lord Alfred Douglas had been such that he (the judge) could not ask the jury in the previous trial to say that there was no ground for charging him with having posed as a criminal.

The judge, in the course of his remarks to the jury, dealt with each of the charges contained in the indictment, his opinion being plainly and strongly against the prisoner. In regard to Wilde's letters to Lord Alfred Douglas, he said they might be "prose poems," but they were nonetheless poison to a young man's mind, and the writer was clearly not a desirable companion for the young.

The judge finished his charge at 3 o'clock and the jury retired.

Before the jury retired the foreman asked the court if a warrant had been issued for the arrest of Lord Alfred Douglas.

The judge said that no warrant had been issued, whereupon the foreman said: "But if we must consider these letters as evidence of guilt, they surely show that Lord Alfred Douglas’s guilt is equal to that of Wilde."

After the verdict had been rendered, Sir Edward Clark, on behalf of Wilde, and counsel for Alfred Taylor, made application for a postponement of sentence.

The judge peremptorily refused to grant the application, and in his remarks described the offences of which the prisoners were guilty as the most heinous that had ever come to his notice. The judge then sentenced Wilde and Taylor to two years’ imprisonment at hard labor, the maximum penalty.

When the sentence was pronounced Wilde appeared to be stunned.

As the last word of the sentence was uttered the apostle of estheticism was hurried to his cell, a felon.

London, May 25. - The trial of Oscar Wilde was resumed in the Old Bailey court [t]his morning, Sir Frank Lockwood continuing his address to the jury for the prosecution. He dilated upon the intimacy of Wilde and Taylor, and said that leniency ought not to be shown to one and not to the other because of the position and intellect of the one.

Sir Edward Clarke protested against counsel confusing Taylor's case with Wilde’s.

Sir Edward Clarke also angrily objected to the language used by the prosecuting counsel, and a heated argument between the two ensued. After a protracted wrangle the Judge interfered and advised Lockwood to confine himself to discussion of the evidence and not start ut upon any rhetorical denunciations of the prisoner.

Mr. Lockwood finished his address by saying that Wilde’s own admissions pointed conclusively to his guilt.

The Judge, in the c[o]urse of his charge to the jury, dealt with each of the charges contained in the indictment, his opinion being plainly and strongly against the prisoner.

The Judge finished his charge at 3 o'clock and the jury retired. Before the jury retired the foreman asked the court if a warrant had been issued for the arrest of Lord Alfred Douglas.

The Judge said that no warrant had been issued, whereupon the foreman said: "But if we must consider these letters as evidence of guilt, they surely show that Lord Douglas' guilt is equal to that of Wilde."

The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the Judge sentenced Wilde and Taylor - the latter's sentence having been suspended pending the result of the trial of Wilde - to two years imprisonment at hard labor each.