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The San Francisco Examiner - Friday, May 3, 1895
The San Francisco Examiner - Friday, May 3, 1895
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The Ottawa Citizen - Friday, May 3, 1895
The Ottawa Citizen - Friday, May 3, 1895
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NEW YORK, May 2. - A London cable to a morning paper says: Oscar Wilde is now said by his friends to be the victim of mania. Dr.
Forbes Winslow and Dr. Blandford, eminent psychologists and specialists in diseases of the mind, are busily occupied in investigating the record of the
Wilde family and preparing a diagnosis of the patient's mental and physical condition.
It's more than likely that when Oscar Wilde is next placed on trial the testimony of these learned men will be made a feature of the
defense in order to offset the possibility of the next jury finding him guilty of the charges brought against him. The plea will be made that he, guilty
or innocent of the charge, is a subject for pathological treatment, and not for the laws of vengeance. This course is said to be contemplated by Sir
Edward Clarke, Q.C., in opposition to the wishes of Wilde’s relatives. Great secrecy is being observed in the matter, and none of those concerned will
talk about it.
Members of the bar are wondering whether, in order to save his client from imprisonment in the event of an adverse verdict, Sir Edward
Clarke is prepared to consent to Wilde being placed under scientific restraint.
There is no suggestion that any of Wilde's ancestors were afflicted, even in a remote way, with the form of degeneracy attributed to
him. The heredity problem is far more complex than that. Many forms of nervous disease in parents might produce in the child pathological conditions that
would, if unchecked, bring him within the reach of the law. This is generally recognized by physicians, and the profession is delighted at the prospect of
this point becoming the issue at law.
Sir William Wilde, Oscar's father, was remarkably eccentric, although almost a genius as an oculist and as an antiquarian. Oscar Wilde
has long been regarded as a subject of the form of insanity called by the French "folie ambitieuse," the signs of which are inordinate vanity and a thirst
for notoriety. That this infliction should be associated with other forms of mental disease would not be surprising.
WILDE WANTS BAIL. Application Will Be Made to the Court of Queen's Bench.
LONDON, May 2. - Counsel for Oscar Wilde will to-morrow make application before Baron Pollock, in the Queen’s Bench Division of the
High Court of Justice for the admission of Wilde to bail, pending the retrial of his case. Hitherto it has been the practice to grant applications for
bail in all cases of misdemeanor, but the matter rests solely upon the discretion of the Court. The next session of the Old Bailey court will begin on May
20th.
London, May 2.- Counsel for Oscar Wilde will to-morrow make application before Baron Pollock, in the Queen’s Bench division of the High
Court of Justice, for the admission of Wilde to bail pending the re-trial of his case. Hitherto it has been the practice to grant applications for bail in
all cases of misdemeanour, but the matter rests solely upon the discretion of the court. The next session of the Old Bailey Court will begin on May 20.
Although Oscar Wilde's fine collection of prints, Morrish pottery and bric-a-brac has been sold at auction, no receiving order in
bankruptcy against him has yet been applied for.