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Original paragraph in
The Cork Examiner - Monday, June 3, 1895
The Cork Examiner - Monday, June 3, 1895
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The Yorkshire Evening Post - Thursday, June 6, 1895
The Yorkshire Evening Post - Thursday, June 6, 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 theatrical managers at whose house 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 the strong inducement to the contrary), he
stayed in England and faced his trial. Now that the trial is over and Mr Wilde has been convicted and sentenced, I still feel I was absolutely right in
the course I took, and I hope 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, of the theatrical managers at whose
houses his plays were running, and of his publishers, 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 (if rumour be correct, withstanding strong inducements to the contrary)
that he stayed in England and faced his trial."