The Times - Friday, April 5, 1895

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.--Before Mr Justice Collins the trial of Lord Queensberrv on a charge of having published a defamatory libel concerning Mr. Oscar Wilde was resumed. The cross-examination of the prosecutor was continued. He was questioned about his intercourse with the man Taylor, and also about his acquaintance with young men named Mavor, Searle, Conway, Atkins, Parker, and Granger, with whom he had dined several times, and to whom he had given presents. He denied that he had ever misconducted himself with any of them. In the witness's re-examination, letters were put in and read which had passed between Lord Queensberry and Lord Alfred Douglas with regard to the intimacy of the latter with Mr. Wilde. Mr. Carson, Q.C., in opening the case for the defence, said that Lord Queensberry withdrew nothing of what he had said or written. All he had done had been with premeditation and a determination to try and save his son. The learned counsel commented on the prosecutor's familiarity with young men who were gentleman's servants and in similar positions, and also on this tendency of the prosecutor's writings. The address was not finished when the Court adjourned.