The Pall Mall Gazette - Tuesday, May 21, 1895

THE TRIAL OF TAYLOR.
CROSS-EXAMINATION OF THE PRISONER.

The re-trial of Alfred Taylor was continued at the Old Bailey this morning before Mr. Justice Wills, when the defence was resumed and the prisoner was called into the witness-box. Examined by Mr. Grain, he said that on attaining his majority twelve years ago he came into £45,000 under his father's will. He had got through it in nine years, and was made bankrupt in 1893. He absolutely denied the present charges. The cross-examination of Taylor was conducted by the Solicitor-General. It was a more ample and elaborate cross-examination than before, the time which had elapsed having evidently been made the most of by the officer in charge of the case, Detective-Inspector Richards. Taylor, upon being asked for the names of the other persons than those who had already been mentioned who had stayed with him, wanted to keep those names private by writing them down instead of speaking them. The Solicitor-General: We will have no names kept back if I can help it. His lordship: If the witness does write them down I shall read them out. I don't approve of any mysteries in matters of this kind. The Solicitor-General: I am very much obliged to your lordship for taking that view. His lordship: It is some times done good-naturedly, but it leads to very great mischief. It is supposed there is some mystery which the judge and every body else are in a kind of conspiracy to conceal, and we will have nothing of that kind. Taylor could only mentions three fresh names, those of Ernest Macklin, Edward Harrington, and Harold Henry, a musician. It was Harold Henry who first introduced witness to Oscar Wilde, although witness had formerly said it was one Schwabe who brought him and Wilde together. Harrington was employed in a music-publisher's establishment at Putney, and witness had first met him at the house of one Court, a schoolmaster.