The Times - Friday, April 12, 1895

POLICE COURTS:--At Bow-street the charges against Oscar Wilde and Alfred Taylor under the Criminal Law Amendment Act were further investigated. Sir E. Clarke, Q.C., who appeared for Wilde, intimated that he should as a rule abstain from cross-examining the witnesses, as he thought it desirable to get the preliminary inquiry over as soon as possible. Evidence was given by Charles Parker, Frederick Atkins, Edward Shelley, the police officers who arrested the prisoners, and others, and the prisoners were further examined. Applications for bail were made on behalf of both, but were refused.