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The Otago Witness - Thursday, April 4, 1895
The Otago Witness - Thursday, April 4, 1895
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The Otago Daily Times - Monday, April 1, 1895
The Otago Daily Times - Monday, April 1, 1895
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John Sholto Douglas, Marquis of Queensberry, was arraigned before the magistrate (Mr Newton) in the Marlborough Police Court, London,
on the afternoon of March 2, on a charge of having libelled Oscar Wilde. Mr Wilde's lawyer, in presenting the case, set forth that his client was a
husband who was living upon most affectionate terms with his wife and two sons. For the last nine or ten months he said the Marquis of Queensberry had
persecuted Mr Wilde with the utmost cruelty. The last act of persecution occurred on February 28, when the marquis left Wilde, at a club of which both are
members, an open card upon the back of which was written a vile epithet. The porter of the club, upon reading the word, enclosed the card in an envelope
so that it might not be seen by any other person than Wilde. The detective who arrested the marquis at Dover on the morning of March 2 testified that when
he approached the marquis and informed him of the complaint upon which he was arrested, his lordship said, "This has been going on for two years." Sir
George Lewis, the Marquis of Queensberry's solicitor, in his address to the court, said that when the facts became fully known it would be found that the
marquis had been acting under the influence of great indignation based upon abundant provocation. It has not been a secret (says the despatch) that the
reason for the Marquis of Queensberry's resentment was to be found in the intimate relations existing between Mr Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, who until
the death of Lord Drumlanrig placed him next in succession, was the younger son of the marquis. Owing to the friendship existing between Wilde and Lord
Alfred the latter became estranged from his father, who, feeling his position more acutely by reason of sundry reports concerning the nature of the
relations between Wilde and his son, which are also common property, conceived a most violent antipathy to Mr Wilde.
John Sholto Douglas, Marquis of Queensberry, was arraigned before the magistrate (Mr Newton) in the Marlborough Police Court, London,
on the afternoon of March 2, on a charge of having libelled Oscar Wilde. Mr Wilde's lawyer, in presenting the case, set forth that his client was a
husband who was living upon the most affectionate terms with his wife and two sons. For the last nine or ten months he said the Marquis of Queensberry had
persecuted Mr Wilde with the utmost cruelty. The last act of persecution occurred on February 28, when the Marquis left Wilde, at a club of which both are
members, an open card upon the back of which was written a vile epithet. The porter of the club, upon reading the word, enclosed the card in an envelope
so that it might not be seen by any other person than Wilde. The detective who arrested the marquis at Dover on the morning of March 2 testified that when
he approached the marquis and informed him of the complaint upon which he was arrested, his lordship said, "This has been going on for two years." Sir
George Lewis, the Marquis of Queensberry's solicitor, in his address to the court, said that when the facts became fully known it would be found that the
marquis had been acting under the influence of great indignation based upon abundant provocation. It has not been a secret (says the despatch) that the
reason for the Marquis of Queensberry's resentment was to be found in the intimate relations existing between Mr Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, who until
the death of Lord Drumligg placed him next in succession, was the younger son of the marquis. Owing to the friendship existing between Wilde and Lord
Alfred the latter became estranged from his father, who, feeling his position more acutely by reason of sundry reports concerning the nature of relations
between Wilde and his son, which are also common property, conceived a most violent antipathy to Mr Wilde.