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West Coast Times - Friday, April 5, 1895
West Coast Times - Friday, April 5, 1895
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North Otago Times - Friday, April 5, 1895
North Otago Times - Friday, April 5, 1895
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Immense crowds attend the trial of the Marquis of Queensbery on a charge of libelling Oscar Wilde. Evidence adduced to-day showed that
Wilde paid heavy blackmail for his gushing letters to Lord Alfred Douglas (the Marquis' son) which were found in the pockets of old clothes when given
away. The defence is based on revelations in these letters.
Immense crowds attended the trial of the Marquis of Queensberry on the 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' son), which were found in the pockets of old
clothes when given away. The defense is based on revelations in these letters.
Wilde was subjected to a stringent cross-examination with the view of showing "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 the expression of an artistic faculty. His letters
to Douglas were prose poems, extraordinary perhaps, but not justifying an immoral interpretation. He admitted 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.
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. Wilde insisted that they are merely the expression of an artistic faculty. His letters
to Lord A. Douglas were prose poems, extraordinary, perhaps, but not justifying an immoral interpretation. He admitted that he gave one of his alleged
black-mailers L21, and lunched with him in a private room afterwards. The case has been adjourned. Defendant was admitted to bail.