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The New York Times - Friday, April 5, 1895
London. April 4. -- The trial of the action of Oscar Wilde against the Marquis of Queensberry for libel was resumed to-day in the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, with the complainant again in the witness box.
Mr. Carson's cross-examination, which was intended to prove that Mr. Wilde is really as bad as he seems to affect to be, was followed by a re-direct examination, and the case for the prosecution was closed.
Times Union - Thursday, April 4, 1895
The testimony adduced in the cross-examination of Oscar Wilde, in the Queensberry libel suit, to-day, is of such a nature as to preclude its publication in a reputable newspaper. The Times, therefore, must decline to print it. At one period this morning, while being cross-questioned by Mr. Carson, the marquis of Queensberry's lawyer, Wilde lost his temper and announced the "insolence" of Mr. Carson in pursuing the line of questioning he had followed. Mr. Carson, he said, had deliberately insulted him throughout the cross-examination.
Mr. Carson drew from the witness the acknowledgement that he had made presence of money or trinkets to a considerable number of persons. Wilde blandly explained that he did this "because they were poor."
It may be said that during his cross-examination, Wilde made a pretty good witness for the defense.
LONDON, April 4. - The St. James Gazette makes the announcement that owing to the nature of the testimony being taken in the Wilde-Queensberry libel suit the management of that paper has decided not to report the proceedings of the case any further.
The trial of the action of Oscar Wilde against the marquis of Queensberry for libel was resumed to-day in the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, with the complainant again in the witness box, Mr. Carson cross-examining.
At the conclusion of the cross-examination, Sir Edward Clarke questioned Mr. Wilde in redirect examination. He began by reading a number of letters written by the marquis of Queensberry to his son, Lord Alfred Douglas, in which the marquis condemned his son for his conduct with Wilde. He also read a letter written by the marquis reviling Lord Roseberry, Mr. Gladstone and the queen, because of the appointment of his son to the peerage of Drumlanrig. In one of the letters the marquis declared that Lord Alfred Douglas was not his son.
At the conclusion of Mr. Wilde’s redirect examination the case of the prosecution was closed.