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Quebec Morning Chronicle - Thursday, May 30, 1895
Quebec Morning Chronicle - Thursday, May 30, 1895
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The Boston Post - Saturday, June 1, 1895
The Boston Post - Saturday, June 1, 1895
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London, May 27 — Oscar Wilde, after he was sentenced on Saturday, was taken to Holloway Jail, in the northern part of London. There all
his money and valuables were taken away from him by the warder, he was stripped to the shirt, and an officer wrote down in the prison register a minute
account of his appearance, the color of his eyes, hair and complexion, and any peculiarities, such as a broken finger, tattoo marks, moles, etc.
Then Wilde was put into a hot bath, and his shirt — the last vestige of his days of freedom — was removed. Emerging from the water, he
found a full suit of prison clothes ready for him, from under-linen to loose shoes and a hideous Scotch cap. His clothes are of dirty drab canvas
plentifully adorned with broad arrows.
Shortly afterwards Wilde ate his first real prison meal an allowance of thin porridge and a small brown loaf.
He was taken to day to Pentonville, hard by the Holborn viaduct, a prison for convicted criminals.
He was examined physically with great care, scute upon the medical officer’s report will depend what labor he is to be set to. If he is
passed as sound and fit for first-class hard labor he will take his first month’s exercise on a treadwheel — six hours daily, making an ascent of 6.000
feet; twenty minutes on continuously, then five minutes ' rest.
LONDON, May 31. - Oscar Wilde is awaiting in Pentonville prison the decision of the powers that be as to the sort of labor which he
will have to perform during his first month of imprisonment. He has been examined physically with great care, since upon the medical officer’s report will
depend what labor he is to be set to. If he is passed as sound and fit for first class hard labor, he will take his first month’s exercise on a tread
wheel, six hours daily, making an ascent of 6000 feet; twenty minutes on continuously, then five minutes’ rest.
The necessity for a close medical examination is obvious before a man is subjected to this labor. Wilde will be subjected to
auscultation and percussion and thoroughly overhauled before a decision is made.
The necessity for a close medical examination is obvious before a man is subjected to this labor. Wilde will be subjected to
auscultation and percursion and thoroughly overhauled before a decision is made.
During the first month while on the wheel, if put there, Wilde will sleep on a plank bed a bare board raised a few inches above the
floor and supplied with sheets. Clean sheets are given to each prisoner, two rugs and a coverlet, but no mattress.
This will be his diet :
Breakfast at 7-30 a m. — Cocoa and bread.
Dinner at noon — Bacon and beans one day ; soup another ; cold Australian meat another, and brown flour suet pudding another, the last
three repeated twice a week ; potatoes with every dinner.
Tea at 5 30.
After he has finished his spell on the wheel he will be put to some industrial employment — not play-writing, although it might be most
profitable for the prison department, but probably post-bag making, tailoring or merely picking oakum.
He will exercise in the open air daily for au hour, walking with the rest of his ward in Indian file, no talking permitted.
He will be allowed no communication with the outside, except by special permission, until he has completed three months of his
sentence. Then he may write and receive one letter and be visited for twenty minutes by three friends, but in the visiting cell, separated from them by
wire blinds and in the presence of a warden.
Letter and visit may he repeated at intervals of three mouths. But all these concessions depend, first upon his industry, and next upon
his conduct. There is no escape from the plank bed until a certain number of marks are awarded for work done, and is the same way letter a and visits are
accorded.