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Original paragraph in
The Daily Colonist - Thursday, May 2, 1895
The Daily Colonist - Thursday, May 2, 1895
Most similar paragraph from
The Philadelphia Times - Thursday, May 2, 1895
The Philadelphia Times - Thursday, May 2, 1895
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In the Old Bailey to-day Justice Charles summed up the case against Oscar Wilde and Alfred Taylor. He said that counsel had acted wisely
in withdrawing the charge of conspiracy brought against Wilde, as he would have ordered the jury to bring in a verdict of not guilty on that
specification. There was corroboration of witnesses, but the jury would have to weigh the characters of men like Parker, Wood and Atkins, whom Sir Edward
Clarke, in the justice's opinion, properly described as blackmailers.
Justice Chester, in summing up the case, said that counsel for the prosecution acted wisely in withdrawing the charge of conspiracy
against Wilde, as he would have ordered the jury to bring in a verdict of "not guilty" on that specification. He admitted that there was corroboration of
the witnesses, but the jury, he added, would have to weigh the characters of men like Parker, Wood and Atkins, whom Sir Edward Clarke, in the Justice’s
opinion, properly described as blackmailers.