The Evening Journal - Tuesday, July 9, 1895
This report was originally published in English. Machine translations may be available in other languages.
Great Was his Fall.
Toronto News.
A few weeks ago Oscar Wilde had all the luxuries money could buy. Now he is confined to the narrow limits of a prison, denied all intercourse with the outside world, allowed but one book, the Bible, forced to care for his own cell, and the only occupation permitted as a break in the monotony of the dreary hours and a relief to the most frightful mental anguish, is oakum picking. These facts are not stated to create sympathy for the fallen idol of aesthetes. They are held up as an awful example of the consequences that sometimes attend upon sin and as a warning to young men to avoid the first step in wrong doing.