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The San Francisco Examiner - Thursday, June 6, 1895
The San Francisco Examiner - Thursday, June 6, 1895
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San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, June 6, 1895
San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday, June 6, 1895
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LONDON, June 5. - Oscar Wilde is not insane, as has been reported. On the contrary, the weekly report of the Governor of Pentonville
Prison to the Home Office says he is doing well.
LONDON, June 5. - Oscar Wilde is not insane, as has been reported. On the contrary the weekly report of the Governor of Pentonville
prison to the Home Office to-day says he is doing well.
The medical officer of Pentonville called at the prison department to-day to correct the sensational story. He said that after
recovery from prostration on the next morning after conviction Wilde, on entering the prison, was well enough to be put on prison fare, and Monday, May
27th, he was placed on the treadmill. Every day since then Wilde has performed regular service there, and will not be relieved from that monotonous and
terrible punishment until Monday, June 22nd.
At the end of this preliminary service after conviction, the lightest punishment for a prisoner in Wilde's class is work at ruling
forms for the prison department. But unless Wilde’s health suffers meanwhile he is certain to be put to the harder work of bag-making for the remaining
portion of his sentence.
The same authority informed the correspondent that under the existing rules prisoners undergoing Wilde’s sentence can obtain no
omission of time in return for good conduct. But the Government Commission on Prison Discipline, presided over by Herbert Gladstone, has just made a
recommendation which, if adopted by the prison’s board, will extend to prisoners in Wilde’s position certain benefits by which, should he earn the fullest
possible number of marks for conduct and labor, Wilde will be eligible for release, on a license, in twenty months.
It is probable the suggestion of the committee will be adopted.