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The Times - Monday, April 29, 1895
The Times - Monday, April 29, 1895
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The Times - Tuesday, May 21, 1895
The Times - Tuesday, May 21, 1895
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The trial of OSCAR WILDE, 40, author, and ALFRED TAYLOR, 33, upon an indictment charging them under section 11 of the Criminal Law
Amendment Act with the commission of acts of gross indecency, some of the counts charging Taylor with procuring the commission of those acts, and other
counts charging the prisoners with conspiring to commit and to procure the commission of those acts, was resumed.
Mr. C.F.Gill and Mr. Horace Avory conducted the prosecution on the part of the Director of Public Prosecutions; Sir Edward Clarke, Q.C.,
Mr.Charles Mathews, and Mr. Travers Humphreys defended Wilde; and Mr.J,P. Grain and Mr. Paul Taylor defended Taylor. Mr. Leonard Kershaw held a watching
brief.
The Solicitor-General (Sir F. Lockwood, Q.C.), Mr, C.F. Gill, and Mr. Horace Avory conducted the prosecution on behalf of the Director of
Public Prosecutions. Sir Edward Clarke, Q.C., Mr. Charles Mathews, and Mr. Travers Humphreys defended Wilde; and Mr. J.P. Grain defended Taylor.
The witness Alfred Wood, who gave evidence yesterday, was now cross-examined by Sir EDWARD CLARKE. The witness said that he told Wilde
that he wanted to go to America to get away from certain persons, and it was for that reason that Wilde gave him £30. He went to America and got
employment there. He subsequently returned to England. After his return from America witness and Allen between them got £300 from a gentleman, of which
sum witness had £175. Allen might have given Charles Parker £30 of it.
Frederick Atkins gave evidence as to Wilde's having asked him whether he would go to Paris with him as his private secretary, to which he
replied he would. He went with Wilde to Paris.
In cross-examination by Sir EDWARD CLARKE the witness said that no act of indecency ever took place between him and Wilde. Witness and a
man named Burton had never got money from men by threatening to accuse them. On June 10, 1891, witness and Burton did not get a large sum of money from a
gentleman. Burton did not demand money from a gentleman, and witness did not take the gentleman's watch and chain and give it to Burton. Witness and
Burton were not taken to Rochester-row Police-station, and witness did not give up the watch and chain there. A gentleman did not give Burton a cheque for
£200, to witness's knowledge. Burton did not extort a large sum of money from two American gentlemen.
Sidney Arthur Mavor stated that he was introduced to Wilde at a dinner at a restaurant. Some time after he went to the Albemarle Hotel
one evening as Wilde's guest. Nothing improper took place between them.
Edward Shelley, a young man who had been in the employment of a firm of publishers, said that in 1891 Wilde came to his employers' shop
on business. Witness became acquainted with Wilde, and in 1892 dined with him at the Albemarle Hotel.
In cross-examination by Sir EDWARD CLARKE the witness, alluding to a passage in a letter written by him, said he had the impression at
the time he wrote it that people thought he was not quite right in his mind; he had been overstudying, and he felt that his mind was overstrained and that
he wanted rest.
The witness Frederick Atkins was re-called, and, in reply to further questions from SIR EDWARD CLARKE, he said that on June 10, 1891,
Burton and he were taken to Rochester-row Police-station for hitting a gentleman. The gentleman declined to prosecute, and Burton and witness were allowed
to go. The reason why witness said that Burton and he were not taken to Rochester-row Police-station was because he did not remember.
The hearing of the case was adjourned until Monday.