Manitoba Morning Free Press - Thursday, April 4, 1895
This report was originally published in English. Machine translations may be available in other languages.
THAT LETTER.
Washington, April 3. — Mr. Beerbohm Tree, the English actor, who closed an engagement in Washington tonight, was shown today a copy of the report of the hearing in the Queensberry-Wilde libel case in London, in which Mr. Tree is mentioned as having had in his possession a letter purporting to have been written by Wilde and on which a man named Allen attempted to levy blackmail on the Aesthete.
Mr. Beerbohm Tree, the English actor, who closed an engagement in Washington last night, was shown yesterday a copy of the report of the hearing in the Queensberry-Wilde libel case in London, in which Mr. Tree is mentioned as having had in his possession a letter purporting to have been written by Wilde, and on which a man named Allen attempted to levy blackmail on the aesthete.
WASHINGTON, April 3. – Beerbohm Tree, the English actor, was shown today a copy of the report of the hearing in the Queensberry-Wilde case, in which Mr. Tree is mentioned as having had in his possession a letter purporting to have been written by Wilde, and on which a man named Allen attempted to levy blackmail on the esthete.
"I know nothing about the matter that is stated in the dispatch" said Mr. Tree, "but I always treat an anonymous letter with contempt." Mr. Tree declined to discuss the matter but he again indicated that the letter received by him was anonymous.