The Leader - Saturday, May 18, 1895
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PERSONAL.
The crush was so great when Mr. Oscar Wilde presented himself at the court on his proceeding for libel against the Marquis of Queensbury, that there seemed every likelihood for a moment of his being utterly unable to get in. Attired in a very dark blue overcoat, Mr. Wilde gazed for a moment with a countenance of despair on the throng through which he had to make his entrance. And only by dint of frenzied appeals from the usher was he eventually enabled to push his way in.
Leaning easily on the front of the dock, with his gloved hands folded carelessly on the ledge before him, the Marquis of Queensbury (whom from his appearance the uninitiated would be the last to suspect of aristocratic descent) seemed to be entirely at his ease. For the curious, it may be of interest to state that his overcoat was dark blue, his gloves brown, his necktie white.