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San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, April 8, 1895
San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, April 8, 1895
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The Chicago Tribune - Monday, April 8, 1895
The Chicago Tribune - Monday, April 8, 1895
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LONDON, April 7. - A widespread sensation was created today by the report that Oscar Wilde had committed suicide at the Bow-street
station. It was found that the rumor originated in the fact that when Wilde was about to be transferred from the police station to the prison van for
Holloway jail, he was in a state of semi-collapse and was suffering from hysteria. He said to his jailers that he should commit suicide if he had a
chance. This put them on the alert and he was immediately subjected to a thorough search. The police even removed his pearl breast-pin and a handkerchief,
lest he might stab or strangle himself.
London, April 7. - [Copyright, 1895, by the Press Publishing Company, New York World.] - A report that Oscar Wilde had committed
suicide in the Bow Street Police Station caused a widespread sensation today. The report originated, it was found, in the fact that when Wilde was about
to be transferred from the police station in a prison van to Holloway Jail he was in a state of semi-collapse, suffering from hysteria, and said to the
prison attendants that he should commit suicide if he had a chance. This put them on the alert. Wilde was immediately subjected to a thorough search, and
the police even removed his pearl breast-pin and handkerchief lest he might stab or strangle himself.
The prospect of conviction, with the consequent horrors of a convict's life, have simply stupefied Wilde. It is that aspect of the case
which seems to concern him exclusively, not the shame and degradation into which his vices have brought him. He is a man to whom the luxuries of life were
everything, and his sole thought was self-indulgence. To such a one the rigors and deprivations of prison will be the very worst kind of punishment.
Wilde’s legal advisers declare that they never had a client less able to bear up under trial or whose anticipatory agonies are more
intense. Being a man of heavy and flabby physique and with a constitution greatly undermined by dissipation it would not in the least surprise his doctor
if a sudden seizure ended his troubles.
It is stated to-night that Wilde is suffering from insomnia. The prison surgeon on Saturday night gave him a sleeping drought. It had
no effect on him and he continued pacing his cell all night long. He eats almost nothing, although he is allowed to have food sent to him from the
outside. Another prisoner cleans his cell. He is not allowed to smoke and is allowed to receive only a single visitor daily.