| EPIGRAMS FROM WILDESpicy Talk at the Marquis of Queensberry’s Trial.HIS PROSE SONNET IN EVIDENCEA
Remarkable Letter to a Young Man Which, Oscar Says, Should Be Judged Solely by the Canons of Art, According to Which He Rates It a Thing of Beauty—He
Denies Improper Relations with Boys—Cynical Latter-day Views of Morals. |
1895-04-04 |
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| THE WILDE LIBEL CASETestimony for the Prosecution Concluded Yesterday.WHAT THE DEFENSE WILL PROVEThe
Complainant Gives Evidence as to His Relations with Men and Boys, Denying Improper Action—He Likes Youth Because Happy, Careless, and Original, and
Preferable to the Company of Sensible People—Opening of the Defense. |
1895-04-05 |
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| BEERBOHM TREE’S LETTER.He Explains the Anonymous Communication Which He Gave to Wilde. |
1895-04-05 |
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| OSCAR WILDE IN A CELLSudden Collapse of His Suit Against Queensberry.ALLEGED LIBEL FOUND TO BE
TRUESir Edward Clarke Waived Defense and Consented to a Verdict of Not Guilty Which Was Supplemented by a Declaration that the Charges Made by the
Marquis Are True—A Warrant Was Then Sworn Out and Wilde Was Arrested. |
1895-04-06 |
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| OSCAR WILDE ON TRIALDamaging Evidence Against Him in Police Court.HIS FRIEND TAYLOR IS ARRESTEDBail
Has Been Refused and Both Prisoners Are in Jail—The Maximum Penalty for the Crime Is Two Years’ Imprisonment—The Friends of Wilde Are Zealous in His
Behalf—The Death-knell of Wildeism and Prurience in Literature Has Been Rung. |
1895-04-07 |
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| Wilde’s Play to Be Withdrawn. |
1895-04-07 |
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| Sydney Grandy Defends Wilde. |
1895-04-08 |
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| Oscar Wilde’s Books Withdrawn. |
1895-04-10 |
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| OSCAR WILDE’S WRITINGS.But One of His Works at the Congressional Library, and Cannot Be Withdrawn. |
1895-04-11 |
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| WILDE AGAIN ON TRIALFurther Testimony as to Misconduct with Youth.KISSES BESTOWED UPON SHELLEYA Young
Man Named Atkins Acted as His Secretary for Half an Hour and Wore His Hair Curled to Please the Aesthete—Wilde Remanded Without Bail—A Publishing Firm
Withdraws "Dorian Grey" from Circulation—His Books Selling Fast. |
1895-04-12 |
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| Oscar Wilde’s Books and Plays. |
1895-04-12 |
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| FROM THE GAY CAPITALParisian Gossip of Art, Drama, Fashion, and Scandal.DE BLOWITZ CAUSES A
SENSATIONThe Times’ Correspondent Accused Paris Journalists of Selling Information to Freign Embassies—Sarah Bernhardt’s New Play—Immense Hats and
Enormous Skirts Characterize the Easter Fashions—Interest in the Wilde Scandal. |
1895-04-14 |
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| TIRED OF AN ALLIANCEConservatives Drifting Away from the Unionists.TORIES WANT TO BE RID OF THEMIf
the Former Gain Sufficient Strength in the Elections They Will Throw the Chamberlain Faction Overboard—A New Anti-Lords Motion—Developments in the Upper
Nile Problem—Further Revelations in the Oscar Wilde Scandal. |
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| THEATRICAL NOTES. |
1895-04-14 |
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| WILDE COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.His Counsel Give Notice of an Application for Admission to Bail. |
1895-04-20 |
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| The Oscar Wilde Case. |
1895-04-23 |
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| TRUE BILL AGAINST WILDE.His Case, Says His Solicitors, Will Be Fought to the End. |
1895-04-24 |
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| LORD DOUGLAS IN THE COUNTY JAIL.A Son of the Marquis of Queensberry Prevented from Making a Mesalliance. |
1895-04-24 |
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| A Performance with a Moral. |
1895-04-24 |
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| OSCAR WILDE ON TRIAL.He Looks Careworn and Shows the Effects of Imprisonment. |
1895-04-27 |
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| THE OSCAR WILDE TRIAL.Case for the Prosecution Concluded with Yesterday’s Evidence. |
1895-04-30 |
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| WILDE GROWS ELOQUENT.Spectators in Court Applaud His Disquisition on Spiritual Love. |
1895-05-01 |
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| WILDE JURY DISAGREEWere Unable to Find a Verdict on the Main Charges.REMANDED FOR ANOTHER TRIALThe
Jury Acquitted Wilde of the Charges in Connection with Atkins and of the Charges of Conspiracy—Judge’s Charge Dealt Severely with the Evidence of Some of
the Witnesses, and Ruled Out Any Inference from "Dorian Grey." |
1895-05-02 |
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| Oscar Wilde to Be Admitted to Bail. |
1895-05-04 |
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| Oscar Wilde's Bail Fixed at $25,000. |
1895-05-05 |
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| OSCAR WILDE SET AT LIBERTY.Lord Douglas and Rev. Stewart D. Hedlam Became His Bondsmen. |
1895-05-08 |
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| Oscar Wilde at Barr Babbacombe. |
1895-05-11 |
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| WILDE TO BE TRIED SEPARATELY.He is Released on Bail Until the Taylor [...] is Disposed of. |
1895-05-21 |
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| ALFRED TAYLOR CONVICTED.The Jury, However, Could Not Find Wilde Guilty of Indecency. |
1895-05-22 |
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| BLACKED HIS BOY’S EYEMarquis of Queensberry as a Paternal Pugilist.FATHER AND SON IN STREET FIGHTLord
Alfred Douglas Attacked the Marquis in Piccadilly, but Was Warmly Repulsed, with Considerable Personal Damage—The Assault Grew Out of a Joke Which the
Father Had Attempted to Play on the Son’s Wife—A Comic Picture. |
1895-05-22 |
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| QUEENSBERRY AND SONThe Marquis and Lord of Hawick Must Keep the Peace.FATHER WANTS A GO FOR A
PURSEHis Pugilistic Blood Is Up and Lord Douglas Can Get All the Punishment He Wants—The Marquis Cheered by the Crowd at the Hearing, While His Son
Is Jeered At—Second Trial of Oscar Wilde Begun—The Prisoner Indisposed. |
1895-05-23 |
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| WHY WILDE LIKED YOUNG MEN.They Admired and Praised Him and He Loved them Poetically. |
1895-05-25 |
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| OSCAR WILDE A FELONFound Guilty and Sentenced to Two Years in Prison.ALFRED TAYLOR SHARES HIS
FATEWhen Sentence Was Pronounced the Author Appeared Stunned, and Was Hurried Off to His Cell, the Judge Peremptorily Refusing a Postponement of
Sentence—His Charge Distinctly Against the Prisoner—Cries of "Shame!" |
1895-05-26 |
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| Three Chapters in an Endless Drama. |
1895-05-27 |
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| Oscar Wilde in Prison. |
1895-06-02 |
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| Oscar Wilde Reported Insane. |
1895-06-05 |
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| OSCAR WILDE A MELANCHOLIC.A Denial of a Report That He Is Confined in a Padded Cell. |
1895-06-06 |
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| WHAT WILDE MUST DOPerform Four Hours on the Pentonville Treadmill.LIKE 11 MILES OF STAIRSThat Is the
Equivalent of a Day’s Work on an English Treadmill—Wilde is Now Picking Oakum, but When His Health Improves He Must Climb the Revolving Stairs—Pugilist
Mitchell Tried It and Says It Was the Hardest Kind of Work. |
1895-06-16 |
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| Oscar Wilde’s Estate in Bankruptcy. |
1895-07-25 |
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| THE GOSSIP OF LONDONHenry M. Stanley’s Maiden Speech in the Commons.VIEWS OF BALFOUR’S
STATEMENTUnveiling of the Burns Statue at Ayr—A Railway Train Makes 540 Miles in 512 Minutes—Visit of the Japanese Premier’s Son—The African
Explorer, the Late E. J. Glave, Discovers the Livingstone Tree—Oscar Wilde in Good Health. |
1895-08-25 |
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| Oscar Wilde’s Debts Nearly $17,000. |
1895-09-25 |
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