The Telegraph - Thursday, April 4, 1895
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Society Scandal.
Oscar Wilde Libel Case.
Trial of Lord Queensberry.
London, April 3.
At the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, to-day, before Sir Charles Hall and a jury, the Marquis of Queensberry was charged with having criminally libelled Mr. Oscar Wilde, the well known artist and author, in having addressed postcards, containing indecent statements, to Mr. Wilde, at the Albemarle Club.
The defendant put in a plea of justification to the effect that the cards were written as a father, in the interests of his son and for the public benefit, was entitled to write in order to stop Mr. Wilde's undue familiarity with that son, the young Lord Douglas.