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The San Francisco Call - Sunday, June 23, 1895
The San Francisco Call - Sunday, June 23, 1895
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Nanaimo Free Press - Thursday, June 27, 1895
Nanaimo Free Press - Thursday, June 27, 1895
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LONDON, ENG., June 22. — The weekly report of the Governor of Pentonville Prison, where Oscar Wilde, the erstwhile esthete, poet and
dramatist, is now languishing in durance vile, confirms the previous circulated denial of the assertion that the noted prisoner had lost his mind.
London, Eng, June 26 — The weekly report of the Governor of Pentonville Prison, where Oscar Wilde, the erst-while aesthete, poet and
dramatist, is now languishing in durance vile, confirms the previous circulated denial of the assertion that the notes prisoner had lost his mind.
The report says that Wilde's health has been so robust that for the past three week[sic] he has been furnishing motive power for a
treadmill, in accordance with the usual custom, and.that he will shortly be put at the hard task of bag-making for the remainder of his term. His conduct
is reported as exemplary, which, if continued, will entitle him to release four months prior to the expiration of his two-year sentence. He will not be
allowed to see any of his friends until the latter part of August, and then only a limited number and for a very short time.
Notwithstanding the heinousness of Wilde's crime, there is a marked tendency on the part of the public to regard him with more or less
pity, inasmuch as it is generally admitted that he has been made a scapegoat, and that the crime for which he has been incarcerated is so far from rare
that a wholesale application of the drastic methods applied in his case would involve many who now affect the most profound contempt for the dethroned
litterateur.
Notwithstanding the heinousness of Wilde's crimes, there is a marked tendency on the part of the public to regard him with more or less
pity, inasmuch as it is generally admitted that he has been made a scapegoat, and that the crime for which he has been incarcerated is so far from rare
that a wholesome application of the drastic methods applied in his case would involve many who now affect the most profound contempt for the dethroned
litterateur.