Sydney Evening News - Wednesday, May 1, 1895
This report was originally published in English. Machine translations may be available in other languages.
NEWS BY CABLE.
(From Evening News Correspondents.)
The London Scandal.
Trial of Wilde and Taylor.
Some Charges Withdrawn.
Evidence of Wilde.
"A Victim of Blackmail."
London, April 30. -- The trial of Oscar Wilde and his associate Taylor on charges of conspiracy to commit abominable crimes and for misdemeanor, was continued at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, to-day.
London, April 26. -- The trial of Oscar Wilde and his companion Taylor, for abominable offences, commenced at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, to-day.
At the close of the evidence for the prosecution counsel for the Crown withdrew the charges of conspiracy.
The case for the defence was then opened, and evidence to rebut the charges of misdemeanor called.
Oscar Wilde entered the witness box, and emphatically denied all the charges against him, alleging himself the victim of a blackmail conspiracy.
The case is not yet concluded. It is causing much public excitement, and the court and its approaches are crowded daily.
The evidence hitherto has been mostly of such a character as to be unprintable.