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Original paragraph in
The San Francisco Examiner - Sunday, April 14, 1895
The San Francisco Examiner - Sunday, April 14, 1895
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The Daily Inter Ocean - Sunday, April 14, 1895
The Daily Inter Ocean - Sunday, April 14, 1895
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There is good authority for the statement that the witnesses against Oscar Wilde also tendered evidence against many other notable
persons. But, as in the Cleveland-street case a few years ago, the police and the prosecuting authorities desire to confine the scandal within the
smallest possible limit. Probably Wilde would never have been prosecuted except for his almost incredible folly in bringing suit against Lord Queensberry.
The police know the extent and nature of these offenses in the West End of London, but the Home Secretary, it is understood, takes the ground that the
cause of public morality would not be served by exposing them in this prosecution. Notices have been quietly given to some of the offenders to leave the
country, and the United States has already received some of these exiles.
A curious result of the Wilde trial is the libel suit brought in Paris yesterday by Robert Sherrard, an English journalist there who
has recently published a life of Zola, against Mr. Macarthy of the English Consulate. The latter, it is alleged, on sundry public occasions accused the
plaintiff of being not only an associate of Wilde, but guilty of the offenses with which Oscar stands charged. Maitre Barzelay, counsel for plaintiff,
asked that the case might be heard immediately, but it was postponed until after Easter.
A result of the Wilde trial is the libel suit brought in Paris yesterday by Robert Sherrard, an English journalist there, who has
recently published a life of Zola, against Mr. McCarthy, of the English consulate. The latter, it is alleged, on sundry public occasions accused the
plaintiff of being not only an associate of Wilde but guilty of the offenses with which Wilde stands charged. Maitre Barzelay, counsel for the plaintiff,
asked that the case might be heard immediately, but it was postponed until after Easter.