Galignani Messenger - Tuesday, May 7, 1895
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THE SOCIETY SCANDAL.
QUESTION OF BAIL.
PENDING ORDER FOR RELEASE.
London, May 6
This morning a clerk from the office of Messrs. Humphreys and Sons, solicitors to Mr. Oscar Wilde formally attended before Baron Pollock in Chambers, at the High Court of Justice, and having informed his lordship that two sureties of £1,250 each had been obtained, the necessary order was drawn and duly signed by the judge. The clerk then proceeded to the Treasury and served a copy of the order on the officials there.
The order is made returnable for to-morrow, when an appearance on behalf of Mr. Wilde will be made at Bow-street before Sir John Bridge or another magistrate.
The gentlemen who have offered themselves as bail are stated to be well-known men, and both have received notice to attend at the court to answer any questions that the magistrate may deem it necessary to put to them.
Should the magistrate be satisfied with the nature of the bail, he will sign the order for Mr. Wilde's release from custody until the 20th inst., when the next sessions will commence at the Central Criminal Court.
The prisoner will be released, it is anticipated, in the course of the same afternoon. Mr. Wilde is said to have suffered greatly from insomnia subsequent on extreme nervous prostration since his incarceration, and it is understood that immediately upon his release he will seek a change of air at the seaside.