London Daily News - Saturday, April 6, 1895
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LONDON, SATURDAY, April 6.
At the Central Criminal Court Mr. Carson was continuing his speech for the defence in the proceedings taken against the Marquis of Queensberry by Oscar Wilde, when Sir. E. Clarke announced the willingness of the prosecutor to accept a verdict of "Not guilty" on certain terms. The Judge ruled that the verdict if taken must be without limitations of any sort. This course was not objected to by the prosecution, and the jury accordingly returned a verdict that the alleged libel was true, and published for the public benefit. On this Lord Queensberry was discharged. Later in the day an application was made at Bow-street Police-court from the Treasury Solicitors’ Department, and in the evening Wilde was arrested at a West-end hotel and charged with certain offences.