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The North American - Monday, April 8, 1895
The North American - Monday, April 8, 1895
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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Saturday, April 6, 1895
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Saturday, April 6, 1895
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London, April 7 — Crowds to persons besieged the vicinity of Bow street early yesterday morning, and the Police Court was filled with
interested spectators as soon as the doors were opened. C. F. Gill, who was Edward M. Carson’s junior counsel in the defence of the Marquis of
Queensberry, acted as prosecutor for the Treasury Department. Sir John Bridge, the presiding Magistrate, took his seat on the bench at eleven o’clock.
The. Doors leading to the calls were then opened and Wilde was seen approaching, carrying a silk hat in his hand. When he reached the centre of the
prisoner’s dock he deposited his hat on the seat, bowed to Sir John Bridge, folded his arms and leaned on the rail of the dock in the same insolent manner
which he displayed while on the witness stand in the Old Bailey.
London, April 6– Oscar Wilde, who passed last night in the Bow street police station after his arrest by officers of the treasury
department, was arraigned in the Bow street court this morning. The courtroom was crowded when Sir John Bridge, the presiding judge, appeared. Lawyer C.
F. Fill, the Marquis of Queensberry’s junior counsel, acted as prosecutor for the treasury department. When the magistrate took his seat the doors leading
to the cells were opened and Wilde was seen approaching with a stately step and carrying a silk hat in his hand. When he reached the center of the
prisoners’ dock he calmly deposited his hat on the seat, bowed to Sir John Bridge, folded his arms and leaned on the rail of the dock in the same insolent
manner which he displayed while on the witness stand on the Old Bailey.
Mr. Gill said that the appeared to prosecutor the prisoner on a series of charges of inciting boys to crime. The prosecutor then
related Wilde’s connection with Alfred Taylor at the Savoy Hotel, and how the latter had been instrumental in introducing several boys to the defendant. A
young man named Parker was called to the stand, and was about to testify when the arrest of Taylor was announced. The latter was brought into court and
placed in the dock with Wilde, who greeted him familiarly.
Parker then detailed his intimacy with Wilde in which he accused Taylor of being the go-between. Counsel for Wilde asked leave to
postpone the cross-examination of Parker, as the evidence had taken them by surprise. Parker was then bound over to testify at the trial of Wilde, which
is to take place in the Old Bailey.
Further testimony bearing on the charges against Wilde disclosed shocking intimacy between the defendant and other boys and young men,
at the conclusion of which Sir John Bridge remanded Wilde without bail until Thursday.
Oscar Wilde is suffering from insomnia. The prison surgeon on Saturday night gave him a sleeping draught, but it had no effect on him,
and he continued pacing his cell nearly all night long. He eats almost nothing, although he is allowed to have food sent to him from outside. Another
prisoner clears his cell. He is not allowed to smoke, and is allowed to receive only a single visitor daily.