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The Evening Star - Friday, April 5, 1895
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Oscar Wilde was subjected to a stringent cross examination with the view of showing that "Dorian Grey" and some articles in the Chameleon Magazine with which he is connected are of an immoral tendency. Wilde insisted that they are merely the expression of artistic faculty. His letters to Douglas were prose poems, extraordinary perhaps but not justifying an immoral interpretation. He admitted that he gave one of his alleged blackmailers L21 and lunched with him in a private room afterwards. The case was adjourned and defendant admitted to bail.
Oscar Wilde was subjected to a stringent cross-examination with a view to showing that 'Dorian Grey' and some articles in the magazine 'Chameleon,' with which he is connected, are of an immoral tendency. He insisted that they are merely expressions of artistic faculty. His letters to Lord Douglas were prose poems, extraordinary perhaps, but not justifying an immoral interpretation. He admitted that he gave one of his alleged blackmailers £21, and lunched with him in a private room afterwards. The case was adjourned, defendant being admitted to bail.