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The South Australian Register - Monday, April 8, 1895
The South Australian Register - Monday, April 8, 1895
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser - Saturday, April 13, 1895
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser - Saturday, April 13, 1895
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Oscar Wilde has written a letter to the Press, which has been published this morning, in which he states that he was forced to abandon
his charges against the Marquis of Queensberry in order to avoid putting Lord Alfred Douglas in the witness box.
The police, acting upon the instructions of the Public Prosecutor, have detained three of the most essential witnesses in the case.
In consequence of the disclosures in the recent libel action by Mr. Oscar Wilde against the Marquis of Queensberry, and upon the
representations made by Mr. Russell to the Public Prosecutor, that functionary has issued a warrant for the arrest of Oscar Wilde.
Oscar Wilde has been arrested, and will appear at Guildhall to answer the charges preferred at the instance of the Public Prosecutor.
Several hours after the termination of the trial of the Marquis of Queensberry, Oscar Wilde, who was accompanied by Lord Alfred Douglas
and two other men, was observed having his luncheon in a private room at the Holborn Viaduct Hotel. Afterwards Wilde drove to his Bank, whence he withdrew
a large sum of money. The detectives, who were closely following his movements, then lost sight of him.
Later in the evening the detectives recovered his trail, and effected his capture at an hotel in Sloane-street.
Lord Alfred Douglas was very greatly distressed at the news of his capture and at his inability to obtain bail for his friend.
The Marquis of Queensberry sent a message to Oscar Wilde at the conclusion of the trial for libel, in which he threatened that he would
shoot him if he attempted to take Lord Alfred Douglas abroad.
The Marquis of Queensberry sent Oscar Wilde a message after the trial stating that he would shoot him if he attempted to take Lord
Alfred Douglas abroad.
Taylor, the man whose name was so frequently referred to in the libel trial, was arrested today, and, with Oscar Wilde, appeared at
Bow-street to answer the criminal charges laid against them by the Public Prosecutor.
Several witnesses were called who proved up to the hilt the case for the Crown, the witnesses citing many occasions on which meetings
had occurred at hotels and at Taylor's rooms, Taylor, it was said, having acted as an intermediary for Wilde.
Sir John Bridge eventually, at the request of the authorities, remanded the prisoners until Thursday, refusing to grant bail.
Wilde's name has been withdrawn from the playbills of the theatres of London and the United States, where his comedies of "The Ideal
Husband" and "The Importance of Being Earnest" are being played.
Oscar Wilde's name has been withdrawn from the playbills at the London and American theatres, where Wilde's dramas, "An Ideal
Husband" and "The Importance of Being Earnest" are being played.
Parisian society, among whom Wilde had his own select coterie, is petrified at the facts that are now becoming public.