| OSCAR WILDE DISAPPEARS. Said to Be Afraid of the Trial of the Libel Suit. |
1895-04-03 |
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| WILDE AT THE OLD BAILEY. The Poet Testifies in His Libel Suit Against the Mar- quis of Queensberry.
Grilled on the Witness Stand by the Merciless Counsel for the Defense. SHOWED NERVOUSNESS UNDER FIRE. He Does Not Care What
Anybody Thinks of His Writings, for He Does Not Believe Them Himself. |
1895-04-04 |
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| OSCAR WILDE IN A BAD TEMPER. He Lost Control of Himself Under Fire From Queens- berry's
Lawyer. How Lord Frederick Douglas Re- plied to the Admonition of His Noble Father. WHAT A FUNNY LITTLE MAN YOU ARE. The
Attorney for the Defense in the Libel Suit Asserts That He Will Prove the Charges Made. |
1895-04-05 |
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| OSCAR WILDE IS A RUINED MAN. Complete Collapse of His Libel Suit Against the Marquis of
Queensberry. Arrested by the Detectives of Scot- land Yar Upon a Most Aw- ful Accusation. HE WAS GLAD TO DROP HIS CASE. His
Plays Will Be Tabooed in London and His Means of Livelihood Are Thus Cut Off. |
1895-04-06 |
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| A FIN DE SIECLE TYPE. |
1895-04-06 |
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| OSCAR WILDE TO STAY IN JAIL. Remanded Until Next Thursday, and the Judge Refuses to Accept
Bail. Preserving in the Police Court the Insolent Demeanor Assumed at the Old Bailey. AWFUL STORIES OF THE WITNESSES. Only
Once Did the Apostle of the Esthetic Shrink Under the Ordeal to Which He Was Subjected. |
1895-04-07 |
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| WILDE BREAKS DOWN. The Accused Man in a State of Utter Collapse. Prison Attendants Are Taking Every
Pre- caution to Prevent Him From Committing Suicide. [Copyright, 1893, by the New York World.] |
1895-04-08 |
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| COMMON SENSE FROM THE BENCH. |
1895-04-08 |
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| WILDE NOT TO BE READ. His Books Taken From the Shelves of Two Libraries. Newark and St. Louis
Relegate the Works of the Apostle of Estheticism to the Garret. |
1895-04-10 |
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| OSCAR WILDE BREAKING DOWN. Brought Into Court, He Shows the Stain of the Prison Upon Him.
Some Damaging Testimony and Then the Case Goes Over for One Week. HIS ACCOMPLICE LOST TO SHAME. Not Even the Prospect of
Long Imprison- ment Serves to Bring a Realizing Sense of His Position. |
1895-04-12 |
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| Was Not Oscar Wilde's Assistant. |
1895-04-13 |
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| WILDE NOT THE ONLY OFFENDER. So Evil Is the West End of London That the Police Did Not Dare to
Uncover Its Sins. [Copyright, 1895, by the New York World.] EVIL AT THE WEST END. |
1895-04-14 |
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| OSCAR WILDE DOOMED. His Case Is So Black That No Power Can Save Him From Prison. |
1895-04-14 |
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| Journalists Fight a Duel. |
1895-04-18 |
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| WILDE WEARY OF JAIL. His Counsel Will Make a Desperate Fight for Bail. The Accused Author Arraigned
at the Bow-Street Court and Held to An- swer for His Offense. |
1895-04-20 |
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| DOES VICE FOLLOW CULTURE? MONSIGNOR CAPEL, IN VIEW OF THE WILDE CASE, AD- VANCES A MOST STARTLING
THEORY ON THE SUBJECT. |
1895-04-21 |
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| WHICH ONE HAS THE LAUGH? Does Beardsley Fool the Brit- isher or Does the Britisher Fool Beardsley?
Oscar Wilde Has Left a Vacant Ped- estal - Will the New Artist Occupy It? IS IT INSANITY OR ART? One of Those Things That No
Fellow Can Understand, So, of Course, Every- body Buys. |
1895-04-21 |
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| FOR OSCAR WILDE. Lord Alfred Douglass Intercedes With the Public in His Friend's Behalf. |
1895-04-21 |
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| True Bill Against Wilde. |
1895-04-23 |
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| OSCAR WILDE TO FIGHT. It Is Not True That He Will Plead Guilty. His Counsel Expected to Ask for
Delay and to Make Application for Bail in the Meantime. |
1895-04-24 |
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| WILDE A COMMON FELON He Has Cut His Hair and Lost His Swagger Air. Put in the Dock at the Old
Bailey, He Pleads Not Guilty to the Charges Against Him. |
1895-04-27 |
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| BILL NYE AND MR. WILDE. The Gentle Humorist Analyzes the Disgraced English Esthete. ALWAYS
THOUGHT HIM A FRAUD. Their First Meeting, in Which William Made Use of Some Biting Sarcasm. |
1895-04-28 |
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| WILDE ON HIS TRIAL. Witness Shelly Not Spared by the Lawyers. Plenty of Evidence of the Guilt of the
Prisoner Given Before the Case Was Adjourned Until Monday. |
1895-04-28 |
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| WILDE SUED FOR DIVORCE. The Wife of the Fallen Man Has Instructed Her Lawyer to Begin Proceedings.
SHE WAS ONCE DEVOTED TO HIM. Always a Good Wife, She Even Followed Her Husband in His Fad as the Leader of Estheticism. |
1895-04-30 |
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| OSCAR WILDE DENIES IT ALL. His Lawyers Put the Poet on the Stand in His Own Behalf. Why He
Accepted a Verdict of Not Guilty in the Queensberry Case. TOLD THE TRUTH AT THAT TIME. But His Counsel Advised Him That He
Could Not Secure a Conviction of the Marquis. |
1895-05-01 |
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| YET WILDE BEARS THE STIGMA. Disagreement of the Jury Called to Try the Poet for Grave Offenses.
It Is Said That Five Were for Ac- quittal and Seven for Par- tial Conviction. NOT LIKELY TO BE TRIED AGAIN. As th Case
Stands It Is Thought the Accused Man Will Never More Hold Up His Head. [Copyright, 1895, by the New York World.] |
1895-05-02 |
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| WILDE'S MANY IDIOCIES. |
1895-05-02 |
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| OSCAR WILDE TO PLEAD INSANITY. This Course Taken by His Coun- sel in Opposition to Family
Wishes. Doctors Delighted at Making the Subject of Heredity a Point of Law. TALK OF SCIENTIFIC RESTRAINT. The Poet's Father
Was Very Eccentric, and Wilde Himself Has Always Had a Craze for Notoriety. |
1895-05-03 |
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| WILDE TO GET BAIL. The Amount Will Be Fixed by the Court To-Day. |
1895-05-04 |
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| OSCAR WILDE GETS BAIL. |
1895-05-05 |
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| WILDE'S BAIL. He May Go Free by Furnishing Bond. |
1895-05-05 |
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| CASE FIXING ABROAD. |
1895-05-06 |
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| WILDE TO BE RELEASED. Has Secured Sureties and His Bond Has Been Signed. He May Never Be Tried, as
Prominent Churchmen Urge That the Case Be Dropped. |
1895-05-07 |
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| WILDE RELEASED ON BAIL Son of the Esthete's Accuse One of the Sureties. Many People Believe the Poet
Guilty Only of a Romantically Expressed Friend- ship for Lord Alfred. |
1895-05-08 |
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| QUEENSBERRY ON WHEELS. |
1895-05-14 |
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73 |
| WILDE'S HEALTH IMPROVES. He Will Appear for Trial and Is Hopeful of Acquittal. |
1895-05-19 |
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| TO COMFORT LADY WILDE. Mrs. Frank Leslie Will Go to London to Her Mother-in-Law. |
1895-05-20 |
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| FATHER AND SON IN A STREET FIGHT. The Marquis of Queensberry and Lord Alfred Douglas Give
Piccadilly a Sensation. Did Not Fight According to Rule, but Both Went in for Blood. TOO MUCH FOR THE YOUNG MAN. How
the Old Man Chastised His Offspring in Public for the Honor of the Family. |
1895-05-22 |
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| DOUGLAS OF HAWICK HAD A BLACK EYE. Why the Marquis of Queensbery Fought in the Street With His
Son. Some of the Doings of Oscar Wilde After His Release From Jail. FLED BEFORE THE OLD NOBLEMAN. Warned That He Would Be in
Serious Danger if He Did Not Stay Away From Lord Alfred Douglas. [Copyright, 1895, by the New York World.] |
1895-05-23 |
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| WILDE ON TRIAL. The Conviction of Taylor Has Made Him Uncomfortable. |
1895-05-23 |
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| AN ANGLO-SAXON OUTCROP. |
1895-05-23 |
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357 |
| WILDE'S CASE CONTINUES. No New Evidence Elicited and One Part of the Indictment Quached. |
1895-05-24 |
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| WILDE IS UNDER FIRE. Sir Frank Lockwood Cross-Questions the Writer. Says He Knows What Is Decency -
Letters to Lord Alfred Douglas Read in Court. |
1895-05-25 |
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| OSCAR WILDE HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY. Sentenced by the Court to Two Years' Imprisonment With Hard
Labor. The Judge Regrets That the Law Will Not Permit a More Severe Penalty. TAYLOR GETS THE SAME SENTENCE. Both Men Are
Guilty as Charged, and the Wilde Verdict Brings in Some Parties Not Named. [Copyright, 1895, by the New York World.] |
1895-05-26 |
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| The San Francisco Examiner - Sunday, May 26, 1895 |
1895-05-26 |
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| ARE PUT IN PRISON GARB. Wilde and Taylor Appear at Pentonville With Cropped Hair. |
1895-05-27 |
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| OSCAR WILDE'S LIFE IN PRISON To Be Put in the Treadmill if He Has Physical Strength. After
That He Will Be Set to Picking Oakum Like Any Common Felon. JAIL FARE AND CONVICTS' DRESS. His Privileges Will Depend Upon His
Good Behavior, but He Cannot Escape the Plank Bed. [Copyright, 1895, by the New York World.] |
1895-05-28 |
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| NO HOME LIFE IN FRANCE. |
1895-05-28 |
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| WILDE WILL PICK OAKUM. As His Heart Is Weak He Will Not Do Treadmill Work. |
1895-06-02 |
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59 |
| AS WILDE APPEARED TO QUEENSBERRY. |
1895-06-03 |
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| OSCAR WILDE IS INSANE. Is Confined in a Padded Cell, as He Is Violent. |
1895-06-05 |
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39 |
| WILDE IS ON THE TREADMILL. Pentonville Prison Authorities Say He Is Well and Working. Not the
Slightest Foundation for the Story of His Dangerous Insanity Exists. ABLE TO DO THE HARDEST TASKS. Bag-Making Will Be His Work for
the Future - May Earn Four Months' Rebate. [Copyright, 1895, by the New York World.] |
1895-06-06 |
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| WHERE WILDE IS TREADING WIND. Stamped With a Broad Arrow and Fed on Mush, He Turns the Wheel.
Pentonville, the Prison Where the Poet Is Confined, and How It Is Regarded by Convicts. AMERICAN JAIL A HOTEL BESIDE IT. Men
Who Have Tried Both Say That a California Prison Is Better Than Living on the Outside. |
1895-06-09 |
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| Wilde Must Stay in Jail. |
1895-06-18 |
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| Oscar Wilde on the Treadmill. [From a sketch made from life for an English paper and reproduced in the New York
World.] |
1895-06-29 |
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| WILDE PICKS OAKUM. The Pentonville Treadmill Is Too Hard Work for the Poet. |
1895-07-01 |
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| WILDE'S JAIL LIFE. |
1895-07-06 |
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| Oscar Wilde Is a Bankrupt. |
1895-07-26 |
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31 |
| Wilde Picking Oakum. |
1895-07-28 |
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| WILDE'S FUTURE. Belief That When He Leaves Prison He Will Be Aided to Begin Anew in Some Foreign
Country. |
1895-08-25 |
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84 |
| THE RESULT OF A LIBEL SUIT. |
1895-09-04 |
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| OSCAR WILDE FAILING. Belief That His Prison Life Is En- feebling Him. A General Sympathy for the
Convict is Growing Up in Literary and Artistic Circles. (Copyright, 1895, by the New York "World.") |
1895-09-29 |
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| FOR WILD'S RELEASE. Writers of All Countries Refuse to Sign a Petition Asking for His Pardon. |
1895-11-27 |
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63 |