| ON TRIAL. Oscar Wilde's Libel Suit Against Lord Queensberry. THE POET'S "PROSE SONNET."
Defendant Pleads That the Alleged Libel Is True. AN EXCITING SCENE IN COURT. THE MARQUIS ATTEMPTS TO STRIKE THE APOSTLE OF
ES- THETICISM - WILDE ON THE STAND - A SEARCHING CROSS- EXAMINATION - SOME START- LING ADMISSIONS - THE COURT- ROOM PACKED
WITH PEOPLE. |
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| WILDE'S TRIAL. He Makes Damaging Admissions on Cross Examination. THE PROSECUTION IS CLOSED.
LETTERS FROM THE MARQUIS OF QUEENSBERRY READ REVILING LORD ROSEBERY, MR. GLAD- STONE AND QUEEN VICTORIA - ONE LONDON
NEWSPAPER DE- CLINES TO REPORT THE CASE. |
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| MARQUIS WINS. The Jury Says His Charges Against Wilde Were True. WARRANT FOR OSCAR'S ARREST
ISSUED THIS AFTERNOON - SIR ED- WARD CLARKE PRACTICALLY THREW UP HIS CASE - QUEENS- BERRY LOUDLY CHEERED - WILDE TO PAY ALL
COSTS - A COMPLETE VICTORY FOR THE MARQUIS. |
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| EIGHT PAGES. |
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| BAIL REFUSED. Oscar Wilde and His Friend Tay- lor Arraigned and Remanded. BOTH CHARGED WITH HEINOUS
CRIMES - TESTIMONY GIVEN BY CHARLES PARKER WHICH, IF TRUE, PROVES THE CHARGE AGAINST WILDE. |
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| The Wilde Case. |
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| NEWS OF THE WEEK. Wednesday. |
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| EIGHT PAGES. |
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| UNFORTUNATE. REGRET IN WASHINGTON AT WILDE'S DOWNFALL |
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| NEWS IN BRIEF. |
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| AT ALBANY. OSCAR WILDE'S FALL AND THE "HAY- SEEDS" |
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| OSCAR WILDE ILL. Confinement in Prison Has Made Him Sick. HIS BOOKS NOT WITHDRAWN FROM PUBLIC
USE IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM LIBRARY - FURTHER EXAMINATION IN BOW STREET POLICE COURT TO-DAY - WILDE REMANDED AGAIN WITHOUT
BAIL. |
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| WILDE'S BOOKS. THEY ARE UNLIKELY TO BE RE- MOVED FROM THE BROOKLYN LI- BRARY. |
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| NEWS OF THE WEEK. Thursday. |
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| SENT TO TRIAL. Oscar Wilde's Police Court Exam- ination Ended. DAMAGING TESTIMONY GIVEN AGAINST
BOTH WILDE AND TAY- LOR - TALE OF A BURLESQUE WEDDING - THE PRISONERS FULLY COMMITTED FOR TRIAL - BAIL AGAIN REFUSED - WILDE
LOOKS FATIGUED AND ILL. |
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| NEWS OF THE WEEK. Friday. |
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| TRUE BILL FOUND AGAINST OSCAR WILDE - WILL HE PLEAD GUILTY? |
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| WILDE'S TRIAL BEGUN. PARKER AND THE OTHERS RE- PEAT THEIR PREVIOUS EVI- DENCE. |
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| WILDE ON TRIAL. YOUNG WOOD ADMITS HE IS A BLACKMAILER. |
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| NEWS OF THE WEEK. Friday. |
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| WILDE'S TRIAL. A DISTINGUISHED LITERARY MAN'S SYMPATHY. |
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| WILDE'S DEFENSE. He Denies on Oath All the Charges Against Him. OSCAR APPLAUDED IN COURT. FOR
HIS ELOQUENT EXPOSITION OF SPIRITUAL LOVE - THE CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY WITH- DRAWN - SIR EDWARD CLARKE ACCEPTS THE RESPONSIBILITY
OF THE SUDDEN END OF THE FORMER TRIAL - TAYLOR'S STRONG DENIAL. |
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| NEWS IN BRIEF. |
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| DISAGREED. The Oscar Wilde Jury Fail to Bring in a Verdict. PRISONERS SENT BACK TO JAIL TO
AWAIT A NEW TRIAL, BAIL BE- ING AGAIN REFUSED - THE JUDGE'S CHARGE SEEMED TO FAVOR THE ACCUSED - THE JURY DISCHARGED AFTER BEING
OUT THREE AND A HALF HOURS. |
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| EIGHT PAGES. A Lesson in the Morbid. |
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| NEWS OF THE WEEK Wednesday. |
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| WILDE'S BAIL FIXED AT $25,000, HALF TO BE FUR- NISHED BY HIMSELF. |
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| BAIL ACCEPTED. Oscar Wilde to Be Released From Prison To-morrow. JUSTICE POLLOCK, FINDING THE
SURETIES RESPONSIBLE, SIGNS THE ORDER - HE WILL BE AL- LOWED TO GO ABROAD, AND MAY NOT BE RETRIED. |
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| NEWS OF THE WEEK Monday. |
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| OSCAR WILDE. AND ALFRED TAYLOR MAY BE TRIED SEPERATELY NEXT TIME. |
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| THE WILDE CASE. Counsel Succeeds in Getting a Sep- arate Trial for Oscar. SIR EDWARD CLARKE ALSO
ASKED THAT WILDE BE TRIED FIRST, BUT THE JUDGE DECLINED TO GRANT THE REQUEST, AND OR- DERED THE CASE AGAINST TAY- LOR TO
PROCEED. |
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| EIGHT PAGES. A Drawing That Drew. |
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| WILDE SICK. Allowed to Sit While Testifying in Court To-day. HE REPEATEDLY DENIES THE CHARGES
MADE AGAINST HIM - THE JUDGE ADHERES TO HIS DECISION EXCLUDING SHELLY'S TESTIMONY - QUEENSBERRY BE- LIEVES WILDE WILL BE AC-
QUITED. |
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| FOUND GUILTY. Oscar Wilde Convicted at the Old Bailey To-day. TWO YEARS AT HARD LABOR THE
SENTENCE IMPOSED BY THE COURT ON BOTH WILDE AND TAYLOR - THE JUDGE'S CHARGE STRONGLY AGAINST THE PRISON- ER - END OF A SENSATIONAL
TRIAL. |
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| NEWS OF THE WEEK. Wednesday. |
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| OSCAR WILDE INSANE. HE IS OBLIGED TO BE CONFINED IN A PADDED ROOM. |
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| NEWS IN BRIEF |
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| OSCAR WILDE MUST SERVE OUT HIS TERM. |
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| OSCAR WILDE IS PICKING OAKUM. PRISON DOCTORS WILL NOT ALLOW HIM TO BE PUT IN THE TREAD- MILL -
REAPPEARANCE OF HIS PLAYS IN LONDON |
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| QUEENSBERRY STILL AFTER OSCAR WILDE. |
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| OSCAR WILDE'S FINANCES. A STATEMENT SHOWING HIM TO BE INSOLVENT. |
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| OSCAR WILDE'S DEBTS. HIS FRIENDS UNDERTAKE TO PAY THEM IN FULL. |
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| HALL'S BUDGET. New York a City of Charities, of Noises and of Spasms, AND IT MAY CLAIM EITHER |
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| OSCAR WILDE'S ACCOUNTS PUBLICLY EXAMINED TO-DAY IN BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS. |
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| TO RELEASE OSCAR WILDE. DISTINGUISHED LITTERATEURS TO SIGN A PETITION. |
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| THEY REFUSE TO SIGN. PETITION FOR WILDE'S RELEASE TO BE ABANDONED. |
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