The Telegraph - Saturday, May 25, 1895
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Oscar Wilde Scandal.
Withdrawal of a Charge.
Wilde Examined by the Court.
Denies All the Charges.
LONDON, May 23.
The Oscar Wilde case was before the Central Criminal Court again to-day. Sir Edward Clarke, Q.C., counsel for Wilde, asked Mr. Justice Wills not to send the Savoy Hotel case to the jury; but the judge said that his sense of duty prevented his withdrawing the charge. He would, however, dismiss the charge between Oscar Wilde and Edward Shelley on the ground that it lacked the support of evidence. The judge said that Shelley appeared to have suffered from delusions, but there was nothing unnatural in Shelley's friendship with Wilde, and the evidence had not proved that it was otherwise than perfectly honourable.
LONDON, May 24.
The case against Wilde was continued to-day. The accused was examined, his evidence being a denial of all the charges.