The Winnipeg Daily Tribune - Monday, April 8, 1895
This report was originally published in English. Machine translations may be available in other languages.
WILDE’S CASE.
Seems Certain That He Will be Convicted — A Deep Black Disgrace.
New York, April 8 — The World’s London special says: "It seems certain that Wilde will be convicted. The penalty for the offence is ten years. The maximum punishment is penal servitude for life. There is great sympathy for his wife, who is a very estimable woman, and his two beautiful children. A singular feature of the English law is that even if her husband is convicted and sentenced to penal servitude she cannot get a divorce on either grounds.
A London special says: Until today apparently the country had not realized that a moral pestilence was in the atmosphere and has long been doing deadly work. Englishmen feel deep black national disgrace has been uncovered and the feeling is made poignant because it is new to them."