The Winnipeg Daily Tribune - Friday, December 27, 1895
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BETTER QUARTERS.
An Act in the Nature of Clemency Toward Oscar Wilde.
London, Dec 27 — Official confirmation has been given to the rumor that has been in circulation at the clubs and elsewhere, during the past few days, to the effect that on Tuesday Oscar Wilde was quietly removed from Wormwood-Scrubbs, the government prison, in which he has been confined since his conviction, to the jail at Reading. The removal was ordered by Home Secretary Ridley as the result of representations from the physicians in attendance on the prisoners at Wormwood-Scrubbs, and is in the nature of an act of clemency. It is understood that Wilde will not be compelled to do any labor in his new quarters, but will be allowed an abundance of reading matter, as well as the privilege of exercising as much as he pleases in the jail yard, when the weather is favorable.