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Original paragraph in
Evening Herald - Saturday, June 1, 1895
Evening Herald - Saturday, June 1, 1895
Most similar paragraph from
The Evening News - Friday, June 7, 1895
The Evening News - Friday, June 7, 1895
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The Rev Stewart Headlam, writing in the "Church Reformer" this week, says:—I think it due to my friends to make the following statement.
I became bail for Mr Oscar Wilde on public grounds. I felt that the action of a large section of the Press, of the theatrical managers at whose houses his
plays were running, and of his publisher was calculated to prejudice his case before his trial had even begun. I was a surety not for his character, but
for his appearance in court to stand his trial. I had very little personal knowledge of him at the time. I think I had only met him twice, but my
confidence in his honour and manliness has been fully justified by the fact that (if rumour be correct, notwithstanding strong inducements to the
contrary) he stayed in England and faced his trial. Now that the trial is over and Mr Wilde had been convicted and sentenced, I still feel I was
absolutely right in the course I took, and I hope that after he has gone through his sentence Mr Wilde may be able, with the help of his friends, to do
good work in his fresh life.
The Rev. Stewart Headlam explains in the current number of his monthly paper, the Church Reformer, why he went bail for Oscar Wilde. He
says: "I became bail for Mr. Oscar Wilde on public grounds. I felt that the action of a large section of the Press and the theatrical managers at whose
houses his plays were running and of his publisher was calculated to prejudice his case before his trial had even begun. I was a surety, not for his
character, but for his appearance in court to stand his trial. I had very little personal knowledge of him at the time. I think I had only met him twice.
But my ‘confidence in his honour and manliness’ has been fully justified by the fact that—if rumour be correct—notwithstanding strong inducements to the
contrary, he stayed in England and faced his trial." In conclusion Mr. Headlam says: "Now that the trial is over and Mr. Wilde has been convicted and
sentenced, I still feel that I was absolutely right in the course I took, and I hope that after he has gone through his sentence Mr. Wilde may be able,
with the help of his friends, to do good work in his fresh life."