The Australian Star - Saturday, June 29, 1895

THE LONDON SCANDAL.

As regards the Oscar Wilde-Taylor case, we would just ask one question (writes an English paper). It is a well known fact (and we dare the Treasury to deny it) that many documents (letters, telegrams, &c.) have come into the hands of the police relative to this serious case, which very gravely implicate persons who have not been arrested, and whose names are kept quiet. Why is this? Is it right, and how can it be justified or explained? Sir J. Bridge said the charges were almost the most grave that can be imagined; and so, undoubtedly, they are. But if Wilde and Taylor are not the only parties suspected of guilt, why were not the other parties put on their trial with Wilde and Taylor? It is a terrible thing to think that the Treasury, the police, the magistrate, all the defenders and custodians of law and morality, should know facts tending to incriminate certain parties, and yet wilfully allow these parties to avoid a public investigation into their suspicious conduct.