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OSCAR WILDE TESTIFIES. HIS SIDE OF THE QUARREL WITH THE MARQUIS OF QUEENSBERRY. The Marquis Comes Near Assaulting Him In Court - Oscar Says a Remarkable Let- ter He Wrote Is Beautiful, but Cannot Be Judged as a Letter Apart from Art. 1895-04-04 United States New York City English 12 166 1314
MR. WILDE'S TESTIMONY. THE PROSECUTION CLOSES ITS CASE AS HE LEAVES THE STAND. He Says He Dislikes the Old and Sensible, While the Young, Happy, Careless, and Original Have a Wonderful Charm - The Marquis Still Stands by His Charges. 1895-04-05 United States New York City English 5 72 816
WILDE AS WE KNEW HIM. HIS VISIT TO AMERICA AS ÆS- THETHICISM'S APOSTLE. Caricatured by Du Maurier and Satirized by Gilbert - Stories of His Experiences While Here - His Quarrels with Critics. 1895-04-06 United States New York City English 0 35 1892
WILDE'S CAREER ENDED. HIS COMPLETE DOWNFALL FOLLOWS THE QUEENSBERRY PROSECUTION. His Solicitor Gives Up that Case and the Jury Renders a Verdict that the Mar- quis's Charges Were True and Were Made for the Public Good - Wilde Ar- rested and Locked Up in Bow Street - He Had Been Preparing to Flee the Country - His Name Taken from the Bills of His Plays at London Theatres - Awful Disclosures May Result from the Case. Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN. 1895-04-06 United States New York City English 0 199 2354
WILDE'S PLAYS IN AMERICA. Rose Coghlan Stops One - His Name Dropped from Another. 1895-04-06 United States New York City English 0 3 211
ALL ENGLAND AROUSED. THE COUNTRY HORROR-STRICKEN BY THE WILDE REVELATIONS. Sharp and Severe Action Will Be Taken by the Government - The Leaders of the Abominable Coterie Will Be Arrested and Sent to Prison - Wilde and His Friend Taylor Committed for Trial Without Bail - Wilde Much Depressed After a Night's Confinement in a Cell. Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN. 1895-04-07 United States New York City English 1 92 1835
A Type of Degeneration. 1895-04-08 United States New York City English 0 0 684
Blotting Out Oscar Wilde's Name. 1895-04-08 United States New York City English 6 6 70
Max Nordau on Oscar Wilde. 1895-04-09 United States New York City English 0 0 707
Oscar Wilde's Writings Put Out of the Newark Public Library. 1895-04-10 United States New York City English 1 1 49
Turned Oscar Wilde's Literature Out. 1895-04-10 United States New York City English 3 6 40
OSCAR WILDE'S BOOKS. They Will Remain on the Shelves of the Libraries of New York. 1895-04-11 United States New York City English 0 0 548
OSCAR WILDE'S CASE. He Is Remanded Again After Several Wit- nesses Were Examined. 1895-04-12 United States New York City English 4 33 211
The Oscar Wilde Scandal. 1895-04-14 United States New York City English 6 8 140
... A Noble Lord Flees England, Not Daring to Face Exposures of the Oscar Wilde Sort - Growing Repugnance for Morbidity in Art and Literature ... Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN. 1895-04-14 United States New York City English 1 10 1018
WILDE COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. His Counsel Will Apply to the Court of Queen's Bench for Bail. 1895-04-20 United States New York City English 11 57 229
An Appeal in Behalf of Oscar Wilde. 1895-04-21 United States New York City English 4 4 49
A True Bill Against Oscar Wilde. 1895-04-23 United States New York City English 9 9 45
TRUE BILL AGAINST OSCAR WILDE. Taylor Indicted, Too - Witnesses in Danger of Mobbing. 1895-04-24 United States New York City English 9 25 89
OSCAR WILDE WANTS DELAY. The Court Declines to Grant His Appeal for a Postponement of the Trial. 1895-04-25 United States New York City English 9 14 89
WILDE'S TRIAL BEGUN. His Hair Has Been Cut and He Looks Careworn and Thin. 1895-04-27 United States New York City English 8 13 157
The Oscar Wilde Exposures Have Led to the Formation of a Moral Vigilance Committee Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN. 1895-04-28 United States New York City English 2 2 207
OSCAR WILDE'S TRIAL. The Court Declines to Exclude Certain Evidence Against the Prisoner. 1895-04-30 United States New York City English 4 4 151
OSCAR WILDE BACK IN JAIL THE JURY FAILED TO AGREE AND WERE DISCHARGED. The Court Declined to Admit the Two Prisoners to Bail - They Will Be Tried at the Next Term - The Judge's Charge - It is Thought Wilde's Eloquent Speech Saved Him from a Verdict of Guilty. 1895-05-02 United States New York City English 4 49 889
EFFORTS TO FREE OSCAR WILDE. An Application for His Admission to Bail - His Art Collection. 1895-05-03 United States New York City English 1 9 107
Notes of Foreign Happenings. 1895-05-04 United States New York City English 0 0 43
The Public Disgusted with the Fiasco in the Oscar Wilde Case - Power- ful Influences at Work to Shield Him and His Sort - Only Two Jurors Voted to Acquit Him. Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN. 1895-05-05 United States New York City English 1 3 430
OSCAR WILDE FREE TO-DAY. Doubts Are Expressed that He Will Be Brought to Trial Again. 1895-05-07 United States New York City English 10 12 201
OSCAR WILDE RELEASED. A Son of the Marquis of Queensberry and a Clergyman Furnish Bail. 1895-05-08 United States New York City English 1 6 130
ENGLISH MORALITY. The Oscar Wilde-Queensberry Code in France - A London Man of the World on the Real Value of the Public Indigna- tion Over Offences Only Too Familiar to the English Mind - And on the Revela- tions Made by Lord Queensberry's Letters. 1895-05-10 United States New York City English 0 0 1853
Notes of Foreign Happenings. 1895-05-11 United States New York City English 4 5 14
Foreign Notes of Real Interest. 1895-05-18 United States New York City English 1 1 45
OSCAR WILDE HOPEFUL. His Wife Is With Him - The Second Trial This Week. 1895-05-19 United States New York City English 6 8 62
OSCAR WILDE'S CASE. A Separate Trial Is Granted Him and the Case Against Taylor Proceeds. 1895-05-21 United States New York City English 7 40 286
QUEENSBERRY WHIPS HIS SON. They Have a Fight in the Street and Both Are Arrested. 1895-05-22 United States New York City English 2 8 183
TAYLOR FOUND GUILTY. Oscar Wilde Will Take His Turn Before the Jury To-day. 1895-05-22 United States New York City English 3 21 301
OSCAR WILDE'S NEW TRIAL. Several Witnesses Testify Against Him - He Is Pale and Anxious. 1895-05-23 United States New York City English 2 41 364
OSCAR WILDE'S TRIAL. The Prosecution Closes, and Sir Edward Clarke Speaks for Wilde. 1895-05-24 United States New York City English 6 14 113
WILDE'S TRIAL NEARLY OVER. Weak and Haggard, He Is Permitted to Sit While Testifying. 1895-05-25 United States New York City English 4 32 385
LA GASCOGNE READY FOR SEA. Battenberg and Mme. Nordica Among To- day's Passengers for Europe. 1895-05-25 United States New York City English 0 0 34
OSCAR WILDE CONVICTED. THE VERDICT STAGGERED HIM, FOR HE EXPECTED TO ESCAPE. Both He and Taylor Are Sentenced to Two Years at Hard Labor - The Judge's Sum- ming Up Was Strongly Against Wilde - The Jury Asked if a Warrant Had Been Issued for the Arrest of Young Douglas. Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN. 1895-05-26 United States New York City English 0 91 1006
OSCAR WILDE GOES MAD. It Has Been Found Necessary to Confine Him in a Padded Room. 1895-06-05 United States New York City English 8 20 44
OSCAR WILDE'S BONDSMAN. Mr. Headlam Explains Why He Went Bail for Him - 16 Schoolboys Expelled. 1895-06-09 United States New York City English 5 7 129
Oscar Wilde Seems to Thrive in Prison. Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN. 1895-06-16 United States New York City English 7 10 128
Won't Release Oscar Wilde. 1895-06-18 United States New York City English 13 13 36
OSCAR WILDE'S PRISON LIFE. He Asks for St. Augustine's Works and Other Improving Books. 1895-06-30 United States New York City English 14 12 95
Bankruptcy Order Against Oscar Wilde. 1895-07-26 United States New York City English 10 10 57
WILDE WORKS RESIGNEDLY. The Dramatist Breaks Stone and Picks Oakum in Prison. 1895-07-28 United States New York City English 4 4 51
OSCAR WILDE'S FINANCES. He Earned $10,000 a Year, but His Ex- penditures Were Larger. 1895-08-23 United States New York City English 15 12 97
OSCAR WILDE'S DEBTS. His Friends Are Making Up the Amount So that Dollar for Dollar Will Be Paid. 1895-09-25 United States New York City English 12 8 98
OSCAR WILDE IN COURT. Taken from Prison to Testify that He Is Badly in Debt and Has No Assets. 1895-11-13 United States New York City English 13 8 118
Efforts to Secure Oscar Wilde's Release. 1895-11-23 United States New York City English 10 10 47
OSCAR WILDE CASE. M. Zola Declines to Sign the Petition for His Release. 1895-11-27 United States New York City English 9 8 63