Galignani Messenger - Friday, April 19, 1895

OSCAR WILDE SCANDAL
FURTHER ARRESTS IMMINENT.
[BY TELEPHONE TO "THE GALIGNANI MESSENGER".]

LONDON, April 19.

Any amount of startling gossip is going the round as to the Wilde case, which again comes before the public to-day. One rumour, which I have good grounds for believing true, is to the effect that proceedings have been definitely decided upon against certain persons other than the two already in custody. I can, of course, give no names, but the report does not, like most of the others one hears on the subject, absolutely lack ground.

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Our Milan correspondent writes: The Oscar Wilde scandal seems to interest the Italians, for the various incidents have been telegraphed to the newspapers here day by day. The reason it seems to interest them so much is that it gives the writers here an opportunity of pointing out to the English that they should not hold themselves up to the world as paragons of purity and examples of good morals, especially when they do so at the expense of their Continental neighbours. The articles, however, are more considerate than unkind, but they all sympathise with the Marquis of Queensberry, and commend the determined effort to save his son from social misfortune and contumely that inevitably follows such an equivocal mode of life.