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The Chicago Tribune - Monday, April 8, 1895
The Chicago Tribune - Monday, April 8, 1895
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San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, April 8, 1895
San Francisco Chronicle - Monday, April 8, 1895
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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.
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.
The prospect of conviction, with the consequent horrors of a convict life, appalled Wilde. It is that aspect of the case which seems to
concern him exclusively, not the shame and degradation into which he is plunged. He is a person to whom the luxuries of life were everything, whose sole
thought was self-indulgence. To such a one the rigors and deprivations of a prison are the very worst kind of punishment. Wilde's legal advisers declare
they never had a client less able to bear up under trial or whose anticipatory agonies were more intense. As Wilde is heavy and flabby, with a
constitution sadly undermined by dissipation, it would not the least surprise his doctor if his troubles should come to a sudden end.