The Advertiser - Wednesday, May 1, 1895
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OUR ANGLO-COLONIAL LETTER.
[From our Special Correspondent.]
London, March 29, 1895.
Owing to its friendly connection with Lord Percy Douglas Anglo-colonial society exhibits the keenest interest in the charge against Lord Queensberry for libelling "a person named Wilde" (as the Recorder called him yesterday), and there is any amount of gossip current pending revelations at the Old Bailey. My own information is not, I admit, first hand. It comes from a friend of a friend of Mr. Russell, the Solicitor for the marquis. According to him the complete crumpling of Oscar is absolutely inevitable, and possibilities exist of even worse befalling him. They have, he says, witnesses able to prove Lord Queensberry's allegations up to the hilt, &c.
Owing to its friendly connection with Lord Percy Douglas Anglo-colonial society exhibits the keenest interest in the charge against Lord Queensberry for libelling "a person named Wilde" (as the Recorder called him yesterday), and there is any amount of gossip current pending revelations at the Old Bailey. My own information is not, I admit, first hand. It comes from a friend of a friend of Mr. Russell, the solicitor for the marquis. According to him the complete crumpling up of Oscar is absolutely inevitable, and possibilities exist of even worse befalling him. They have, he says, witnesses able to prove Lord Queensberry's allegations up to the hilt, &.