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LONDON, April 19, 1895 Oscar Wilde and his friend Alfred Taylor were arraigned in the Bow Street Police Court at noon to-day for further examination. Wilde looked greatly fatigued and really ill. His hair was ruffled, and his general appearance indicated carelessness.

Charles Parker was called to the stand and testified that Taylor upon one occasion told him that he had gone through the marriage ceremony with young Mavor, he (Taylor) wearing woman's clothes. After the ceremony there was a wedding breakfast, followed by an orgie, the disgusting details of which were fully recounted.

A detective testified that he had searched the rooms occupied by Taylor, in Chapel street, where he found checks payable to Mavor and telegrams from Wilde to Taylor, arranging and cancelling meetings. Other witnesses were called to the stand and gave similar damaging testimony.

At the conclusion of the examination Wilde and Taylor were fully committed for trial in the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey. Wilde, in reply to the question whether he had anything to say. said: "Not, at present." Application was made for bail, but it was refused. Counsel for Oscar Wilde has announced his intention to apply to the Court of Queen's Bench for the admission of his client to bail on the ground that the admission to bail of a prisoner charged with or indicted for a misdemeanor is compulsory under the statute law.