The Evening News - Friday, April 26, 1895
This report was originally published in English. Machine translations may be available in other languages.
A WILDE SCANDAL.
Criminal Libel Action Brought by an English Journalist in Paris.
The hearing of the criminal libel suit brought by Mr. Robert Harborough Sherard, the journalist, against Mr. MacCarthy, of the British Consulate in Paris, was continued yesterday. President Couturier declined to grant a further adjournment for a month asked for by Maître Bureau, counsel for the defendant. After hearing several witnesses for the plaintiff the Court ordered that others should be summoned for Thursday next, on which occasion, after taking their evidence, judgment will probably be given. The alleged act of defamation, according to the witnesses, was committed in English. The expressions, however, were translated in court and fully paraphrased by the plaintiff’s counsel, Maître Barzely. The case creates great interest in the English colony in Paris.
Mr. Sherard, speaking to a group of friends in the precincts of the court, announced that he leaves Paris for London to-day as a witness for the defence in the Oscar Wilde case.