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The Philadelphia Inquirer - Monday, April 8, 1895
The Philadelphia Inquirer - Monday, April 8, 1895
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The Boston Globe - Monday, April 8, 1895
The Boston Globe - Monday, April 8, 1895
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LONDON, April 7. - A widespread sensation was created to-day by a report that Oscar Wilde had committed suicide at the Bow Street
Police Station.
It was found that the report 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 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, and the police even removed his pearl breast pin and a
handkerchief lest he might stab or strangle himself.
HE IS STUPEFIED.
The prospect of conviction with the consequent horrors of a convict's life has 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.
The prospect of conviction, with the consequent horrors of a convict's life, appaled Wilde. It is that aspect which seems to concern
him exclusively, not the shame and degradation into which he is plunged.
He is a man to whom the luxuries of life were everything and whose sole thought was self-indulgence. To such a one the rigors and
deprivations of prison will be the very worst kind of punishment.
He is a man to whom the luxuries of life were everything, whose sole thought was self-indulgence. To such a one the rigors and
deprivations of prison are the very worst kind of punishment.
DEATH MAY COME SOON.
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, 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.