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LONDON, ENG., May 22. -- At Marlborough-street Police court to-day the Marquis of Queensberry and son, Lord Douglas of Harwick, were bound over, each in $500 to keep the peace.

Both the Marquis of Queensberry and Lord Douglas of Harwick were fashionably dressed. The Marquis wore a rose in his buttonhole and did not show any sign of yesterday's fight. On the other hand his son had a black eye. The Marquis was not defended by counsel, but Lord Douglas had a lawyer present to attend to his interests.

The police evidence regarding the encounter between the father and the son in Piccadilly yesterday afternoon was first given. The disturbance was described as having taken place near the corner of Bond street. A few words were exchanged and a brief but very determined conflict followed. The combatants were soon separated by the police, who escorted them to the nearest police station, where they were charged with disorderly conduct. Neither the father nor the son would prefer a charge against the other.

In his defense the Marquis of Queensberry said that while walking in Piccadilly his son, Lord Douglas of Harwick, came running at him and pushed him against a store- window, speaking at the top of his voice. The Marquis added that he struck his son in self-defense.

Counsel for Lord Douglas of Harwick said that the latter and a friend were walking in Piccadilly, not thinking of the Marquis of Queensberry, when the encounter between Lord Douglas and his father took place. Counsel added that Lady Douglas of Harwick received the following telegram:

"I must congratulate you on the result, but I cannot congratulate you on Percy's appearance. He looks like a dug-up corpse. I fear there is too much madness in kissing. Taylor is guilty; it will be Wilde's turn tomorrow."

It was also asserted that the Marquis had written to Lady Douglas false charges against her husband and members of the family, and that although he had promised to stop writing, he had not done so. Yesterday it was claimed that Lord Douglas asked the Marquis to cease writing these obscene and filthy letters to his wife. The Marquis then hit him in the face and the fight between father and son followed.

After further evidence showing that the Marquis was the aggressor, the case was settled by the Marquis and his son being bound over each in £500 bail to keep the peace.

Special Cable to The Inquirer, Copyright, 1895.

LONDON, May 22. — While Oscar Wilde's trial was proceeding at Old Bailey this morning two of the eccentric Queensberry family—the Marquis and his heir apparent, Lord Douglas of Hawick, whom he hates almost as furiously as he does his younger son, Lord Alfred Douglas—were in the Marlborough Street Police Court explaining about their fight in Piccadilly yesterday afternoon.

Lord Douglas, with his left eye black, a hugely swollen witness of his old father's prowess, was content to be heard through his solicitor, but the Marquis of Queensberry had no lawyer and was loquacious in his own defense.

He told how he had written letter after letter to his eldest son about the Wilde affair in general and Hawick's stand for Wilde in particular.

"At last," said the Marquis, "my letters were returned unopened. I was forced to write to my son's wife in order to reach him.

"I wanted to find out where Lord Alfred Douglas was, and whether it was true that my eldest son was harboring Wilde.

"Yesterday my son rushed up to me and, without provocation, assaulted me. I defended myself.

"Three times we were separated, and each time he followed me and attacked me again."

THE MARQUIS' LETTERS.

Lord Douglas' lawyer said the Marquis had been writing filthy letters to his client's wife. These letters were produced and were read by the justice, who resisted Queensberry's excited entreaties that they be put in evidence and given to the public.

Douglas' lawyer read one communication, which was in the form of a telegram to Lady Douglas of Hawick. Queensberry must have sent it only a few minutes before his son attacked him and after the verdict of the jury in the Taylor case had been announced:

"I must congratulate you on the result of the trial. I cannot on Percy's appearance. He looks like a dried up corpse. I fear he has had too much madness of kissing. Taylor guilty. Wilde's turn to-morrow."

Lord Douglas' lawyer then said:

"Again and again my client has requested him to stop sending these communications to his wife. He promised to stop, but only the other day he sent a picture of an antediluvian monster with 'this is Wilde's ancestor' written under it.

"My client approached the Marquis of Queensberry yesterday, solely to ask him to cease his obscene writing to Lady Douglas."

Both sides produced witnesses, but the testimony all showed that however aggressive a apart of the famous boxing Marquis may have taken in the row, the onset was made every time by his son.

FATHER AND SON BOUND OVER.

The Magistrate deplored bringing a family quarrel into the police courts, and reprimanded both father and son and bound them over in £500 to keep the peace six months.

Farther and son were side by side in the dock during the whole hearing. They stood side by side while signing the bond and went out of the court room together, but neither spoke to the other.

There was a great crowd outside the court room, and the Marquis was loudly cheered when he appeared. Immediately after the court proceedings the Marquis repaired to Willis' rooms, the most fashionable of London restaurants, where he had luncheon with a lady and a young girl.

He was in great glee. He wore a very large white boutonniere, and evidently enjoyed the attention he received from the other guests. He showed to his companions the picture he had sent Lady Hawick.

It was a full-page representation in one of the weekly papers of a prehistoric iguanodon as restored by Professor Woodward and placed in Kensington Museum.

A TALK WITH THE MARQUIS.

The Marquis of Queensberry talked with the utmost freedom to The Inquirer correspondent this evening. He said:

"The cause of my son's anger was this: Before Wilde was released on bail I went to Holloway Prison and left a note saying if he went about with my younger son, Lord Alfred Douglas, after his release he would do it at serious risk. He sent no reply. I accordingly put detectives on him and called at the hotel after his release, but he refused to see me. My other son, Lord Douglas, took him and his lawyer to dine, but just as they were sitting down to dinner I appeared, and Wilde forthwith fled cut of the house.

"I heard next day that Wilde had gone to stay at Lord Douglas' country house at Kingston on the Thames and that Alfred was there. I represented myself at the house and was received by Lady Douglas, who refused me admission and said I should not come there. Subsequently I learned that Alfred was at Rouen, Oscar Wilde having frightened him into leaving the country by falsely stating that a warrant had been issued for his arrest."

"Do you believe Wilde will be convicted?"

"A million to one on it, though I was scanning the jury to-day and I think there are a couple of queer looking fellows among them."

"Do you believe the authorities want a conviction?"

"It looks as if they didn't. They have got no fresh evidence, as they might have done. By the way, there is on matter I would like you to mention—that is the shabby way the authorities have treated me. They are relying altogether on the case prepared at my expense. It has cost me £2000, and when I applied to the Treasury for compensation they offered me £35. I protested against this meanness and they offered me £100, but I told them they might keep it. I intend to get a question put in Parliament on the subject when the case is concluded, and have already seen Labouchere about it. I am a poor man and can't stand this expense.

"My sole object was to keep Wilde and Alfred apart, so I hope Wilde will be convicted. Should he escape, I will pursue him until I am satisfied the intimacy between them is stopped."

BALLARD SMITH.