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The San Francisco Call - Saturday, April 6, 1895
The San Francisco Call - Saturday, April 6, 1895
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St. Paul Daily Globe - Saturday, April 6, 1895
St. Paul Daily Globe - Saturday, April 6, 1895
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LONDON, ENG., April 5. -- The jury in the case of Oscar Wilde against the Marquis of Queensberry found that the plea of justification
submitted by Queensberry was proved, and the Marquis was discharged from custody. The verdict was received with loud applause from the spectators, which
the Judge did not check.
A warrant for the arrest of Wilde was promptly applied for, copies of all the witnesses' statements and the shorthand notes of the
trial having been furnished the public prosecution.
Early in the afternoon Lord Alfred drove to the bank, cashed a check and returned to the hotel. Soon after both Wilde and Alfred drove
away. Wilde was arrested at the Cadogan Hotel. He was taken in a cab by two detectives to Scotland Yard.
Wilde was very pale but cool when he arrived at Scotland Yard. At 8:10 p.m. Wilde was arraigned. The prisoner remained silent
throughout the proceedings. He was then taken to Bow street and placed in the docket in the police station. Here he stood with his hands in his pockets
while the charge against him was being taken. A police inspector then read the charge aloud and asked Wilde if he had anything to say, adding the usual
warning that anything he said might be used against him. The prisoner remained silent and apparently indifferent.
He was then searched, after which he was locked in a cell. Shortly after he had been locked up one of his friends arrived in a
carriage at the station with a Gladstone bag containing a change of clothing and other necessaries, but the police refused to permit him to leave it.
Later Lord Alfred Douglass went to the police station and inquired whether Wilde could be admitted to bail. The police inspector explained that Wilde had
been arrested for a criminal offense, which did not allow of bail being accepted until he had been arraigned in court.
Shortly after he had been locked up, one of his friends arrived in a carriage at the station, with a small gladstone bag containing a
change of clothing and other necessaries, but the police refused to permit him to leave it. Later Lord Alfred Douglas went to the police station and
inquired whether Wilde could be admitted to bail. The police inspector explained that Wilde had been arrested for a criminal offense, which did not allow
of bail being accepted until he had been arraigned in court.
Lord Alfred was greatly distressed by this information. He was told by the inspector that Wilde had a blanket and all requisites in
his cell to be as comfortable as the regulations allowed. The prisoner would be allowed to receive food from a hotel until to-morrow, when he will be
arraigned on a charge regarding the penal offense.