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Original paragraph in
The Philadelphia Inquirer - Sunday, May 5, 1895
The Philadelphia Inquirer - Sunday, May 5, 1895
Most similar paragraph from
The Toronto World - Monday, May 6, 1895
The Toronto World - Monday, May 6, 1895
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Granting bail to Oscar Wilde means that the British authorities desire to give him all facilities for clearing out of the country.
Otherwise the Crown lawyers would certainly have opposed the application, in which case no judge would have granted it.
New York, May 5.—Ballard Smith cables from London to The World : Granting bail to Oscar Wilde means that the British authorities desire
to give him all facilities for clearing out of the country. Otherwise the Crown layers would certainly have opposed the application, in which case no
judge would grant it.
This proceeding is part of the policy consistently pursued by the authorities from the beginning. Twenty-four hours before the collapse
of Wilde's suit against the Marquis of Queensberry the police notified Wilde that they had evidence which would convict him. He declined to take the hint
and sought to brazen the matter out.
The instructions to the crown lawyers were that the inquiry should be strictly limited to Wilde and Taylor and witnesses were
prohibited from drawing in any other name. Moreover
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the case was not pressed against Wilde as it might have been, lest in desperation and fear of his conviction he might have denounced
many highplaced personages who were equally guilty with him and whose complicity in these abominations is known to the police.
MANY OF THEM FLED.
As a matter of fact several of these individuals took the precaution of leaving the country when Wilde was arrested. I hear on good
authority that Mrs. Oscar Wilde and her children did not benefit by the large income Wilde was making from his plays. Mrs. Wilde had a fortune of about
$2000 a year when she married but as it was chiefly in agricultural rents her income has almost completely dwindled away of late years.
While her husband was spending money freely on his wretched accomplices or victims his wife and children were almost in want. This fact
has been known to her friends for several months and it has prevented such sympathy as might possibly be felt for a once prominent playwright and author
in his degradation.