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The Temuka Leader - Saturday, April 6, 1895
The Temuka Leader - Saturday, April 6, 1895
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Colonist - Monday, April 8, 1895
Colonist - Monday, April 8, 1895
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LONDON, April 3.
Immense crowds attend the trial of the Marquis of Queensberry on a charge of libelling Oscar Wilde. The evidence adduced to-day showed
that Wilde had paid heavy blackmail for his gushing letters to Lord Alfred Douglas (the Marquis's son), which were found in pockets of old clothes when
given away. The defence is based on the revelation of these letters. Wilde was subjected to a stringent cross-examination with a view of showing that
"Dorian Grey" and some articles in the magazine Chameleon, with which he is connected, are of an immoral tendency. Wilde insisted that they are merely
expressions of the 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 £25 and lunched with him in a private room afterwards. The case was adjourned and defendant admitted
to bail.
Oscar Wilde explained the effusive language of the letters addressed to Lord Douglas as a natural expression of an artist attracted by
personalty: that the Marquis of Queensberry visited his residence and threatened Wilde, to which that gentleman responded with "you are the most infamous
brute in London."
In the course of his evidence, Mr Wilde explained the effusive language of the letters addressed to Lord Douglas as the natural
expression of an artist attracted by a beautiful personality. The Marquis of Queensberry visited his residence and threatened Wilde, to which the latter
responded with "You are the most infamous brute in London!"