The Standard - Saturday, April 20, 1895

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET

Oscar Wilde and Alfred Taylor were again charged with conspiracy and impropriety. — Mr. C. F. Gill instructed by Mr. Angus Lewis, of the Treasury, prosceuted. — Mr. Arthur Newton defended Taylor. Mr. Travers Humphreys appeared for Wilde, and Mr. J.P. Grain watched the case on behalf of Mavor, one of the witnesses who gave evidence when the case came before the Magistrate. — Charles Parker was recalled and gave further particulars as to Taylor's conduct.- Mr. Gill: Did he tell you anything about a young. man named Charley Mason? — Yes. — William Parker, recalled, also spoke as to Taylor's behaviour about two years ago. — Fredk. Kereley, pensioned Police-inspector, spoke to having made certain inquiries in the case, and produced papers which had been left by Taylor at 3, Chapel-street. Park-walk. These included cheques for small amounts and a Christmas card from Sidney Mavor, and telegrams from Wilde asking him to meet him at tbe Savoy Hotel, and alluding to someone named "Fred" — Charles Robinson, bookkeeper at the Savoy Hotel, stated that Wilde stayed there from the 2d to the 29th of March, 1889. — Theodore Leith, a clerk at tbe Marylebone branch of the London and Westminster Bank, produced a certified copy of Taylor's account from Jan. [?] 1892. to Dec. 29, 1893, when it was closed. It was in the name of Alfred Waterhouse Somerset Taylor.- Reginald Brook, a clerk in the Westminster branch of the London and Westminster Bank, produced a certified copy of Wilde's account there from Jan. 1 [?] to to April 9 of the present year. — John William [?] and Ebenezer Howard, shorthand writers, having given evidence, Mr. Gill intimated that that was the case for the prosecution, and handed to the Magistrate a list of offences with respect to which he asked him to commit Prisoners for trial — Sir J. Bridge: What have you to say, Wilde ? — Wilde: I have nothing to say at present, your Worship. — Sir John Bridge said he should commit the Prisoners on all the charges mentioned. — Mr. Humphreys and Mr. Newton applied for bail on behalf of their respective clients. — Sir John Bridge refused bail.