The Advertiser - Saturday, April 6, 1895
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CABLE MESSAGES.
LORD QUEENSBERRY.
A FATHER'S LETTER.
SHOOTING OF WILDE SUGGESTED.
LONDON, April
4.
In the course of the evidence taken to-day during the prosecution of the Marquis of Queensberry for criminally libelling Mr. Oscar Wilde a letter was produced in which the marquis wrote to his son, Lord Alfred Douglas, stating that if his worst suspicions in respect to his intimacy with the complainant were true he would be justified in shooting Mr. Oscar Wilde.
In the course of the evidence taken to-day during the prosecution of the Marquis of Queensberry for criminally libelling Mr. Oscar Wilde a letter was produced in which the marquis wrote to his son, Lord Alfred Douglas, stating that if his worst suspicions in respect to his intimacy with the complainant were true he would be justified in shooting Mr. Oscar Wilde.
It was further testified that the marquis believed his son to be crazy and advised him to leave the country so as to escape from his infatuation.
It was further testified that the marquis believed his son to be crazy and advised him to leave the country so as to escape from his infatuation.