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Original paragraph in
The Daily Telegraph - Saturday, April 6, 1895
The Daily Telegraph - Saturday, April 6, 1895
Most similar paragraph from
The Freeman’s Journal - Saturday, April 6, 1895
The Freeman’s Journal - Saturday, April 6, 1895
Difference
The hearing of the charge of criminal libel brought by Oscar Wilde against the Marquis of Queensberry has been concluded at the Old
Bailey, London.
The hearing of the action brought by Mr Oscar Wilde against the Marquis of Queensberry was resumed to-day at the Central Criminal
Court.
In the Queensberry libel case it transpired that in a letter to his son, Lord Alfred Douglas, the marquis, said that if the worst were
true, the latter would be justified in shooting Oscar Wilde.
The jury acquitted the Marquis of Queensberry of criminal libel, considering his remarks regarding Oscar Wilde to be justified.