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Original paragraph in
Sydney Evening News - Friday, April 5, 1895
Sydney Evening News - Friday, April 5, 1895
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The Argus - Saturday, April 6, 1895
The Argus - Saturday, April 6, 1895
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London, April 4. -- The trial of the Marquis of Queensberry for libelling Oscar Wilde was continued at the Old Bailey to-day.
Evidence was given that the Marquis wrote to Lord Alfred Douglas that if the worst were true he would be justified in shooting Wilde. He
(the Marquis) believed Lord Alfred was crazy, and suggested he should leave the country.
Prosecutor, re-called, admitted close intimacy with young men who had been introduced to him by Taylor. He had entertained them at dinner
at fashionable cafÈs. Several had spent the night as his guests at his hotels, but nothing improper occurred. He was regardless of the social inferiority
of his guests if they were amusing.
In the course of cross-examination Mr. Oscar Wilde admitted that there was a close intimacy between him and the young men who were
introduced to him by Taylor. He entertained them at dinners at fashionable cafés, and several of them spent the night as his guests at his hotels, but he
declared that nothing improper ever took place between them. Witness said that he was regardless of the social inferiority of his companions if they were
amusing.
Letters written by Lord Alfred Douglas were read, in which the latter threatened to shoot his father if he thrashed him.
Some letters of the Marquis of Queensberry read referred to eminent statesmen, but the references to them were only political.
The case for the prosecution having closed,
Mr. E. H. Carson, Q.C., M.P., in opening the defence, declared that Wilde's proteges were among the most immoral men in London. He
commented strongly on the fact that the prosecutor had not called Taylor as a witness. Wilde's intimacies were absolutely irreconcilable with his claim as
an exponent of culture, and his literature alone justified the action of the Marquis. In conclusion, Mr. Carson said among other witnesses he would call
Wood, the chief black-mailer, and would prove his case up to the hilt.