Compare Paragraphs
This page compares two reports at the paragraph level. The column on the left shows the first report in its entirety, and the column in the middle identifies paragraphs from the second report with significant matching content. The column on the right highlights any differences between the two matching paragraphs: pink shows differences in the first report and purple in the second report. The Match percentage underneath each comparison row in this column shows the percentage of similarity between the two paragraphs.
Original paragraph in
Jamaica Post - Tuesday, April 9, 1895
Jamaica Post - Tuesday, April 9, 1895
Most similar paragraph from
Jamaica Post - Tuesday, April 9, 1895
Jamaica Post - Tuesday, April 9, 1895
Difference
Latest advices relative to the present exciting libel case, state that yesterday while the Counsel for the Marquis of Queensberry was
making his opening statement Mr Wilde's legal advisers offered to accept a verdict that the Marquis was not guilty. The judge ruled that that would imply
justification for the alleged libel, as being true and had been published in the interest of the public; and the jury without retiring so found. The case,
had it been proceeded with, would have, it is said, left the judge no opinion but to commit Mr Wilde upon a charge of felony involving a sentence of 20
years. As the case stood Mr Wilde was arrested and placed in custody at Bow Street, pending proceedings next May, on the charge of misdemeanour, which, if
proved, will subject him to a sentence of 2 years imprisonment. The excitement over the trial is very great and it is still uncertain who else may be
involved. The Cleveland Street Scandal and the Pigot Trials have now been eclipsed. The "St. James Gazette" alone suppressed the proceedings. Other
journals are printing thousands of words anent the case.
Latest advices relative to the present exciting libel case, state that yesterday while the Counsel for the Marquis of Queensberry was
making his opening statement Mr Wilde's legal advisers offered to accept a verdict that the Marquis was not guilty. The judge ruled that that would imply
justification for the alleged libel, as being true and had been published in the interest of the public; and the jury without retiring so found. The case,
had it been proceeded with, would have, it is said, left the judge no opinion but to commit Mr Wilde upon a charge of felony involving a sentence of 20
years. As the case stood Mr Wilde was arrested and placed in custody at Bow Street, pending proceedings next May, on the charge of misdemeanour, which, if
proved, will subject him to a sentence of 2 years imprisonment. The excitement over the trial is very great and it is still uncertain who else may be
involved. The Cleveland Street Scandal and the Pigot Trials have now been eclipsed. The "St. James Gazette" alone suppressed the proceedings. Other
journals are printing thousands of words anent the case.