The Age - Friday, June 7, 1895
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OSCAR WILDE.
THE INSANITY RUMOR
DENIED.
LONDON, 6TH JUNE.
The governor of the gaol in which Oscar Wilde, now undergoing sentence of two years' hard labor, is serving his sentence denies the truth of the report that Wilde has developed insanity and is confined in a padded cell.
The governor of the gaol in which Oscar Wilde, now undergoing sentence of two years' hard labor, is serving his sentence denies the truth of the report that Wilde has developed insanity and is confined in a padded cell.
Wilde, he states, was at first put on the treadmill for six hours daily, but as he showed signs of ill health he has been relieved from that form of "hard labor," and is now engaged in picking oakum.
Wilde, he states, was at first put on the treadmill for six hours daily, but as he showed signs of ill health he has been relieved from that form of "hard labor," and is now engaged in picking oakum.