The New York Herald (European Edition) - Monday, June 3, 1895
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OSCAR WILDE IN PRISON.
He Is Very Moody and is Said to Have Grown Considerably Thinner.
[BY THE
HERALD'S SPECIAL WIRE.]
LONDON, June 3.––Oscar Wilde is reported to be taking his imprisonment very badly. He is much depressed upon hearing the prison regulations, and is said to have protested impetuously against having his hair cropped and being compelled to wear prison clothing.
As he appeared very ill on the last day of his trial, it was expected that he would, in all probability, go directly to the hospital, but this was not so.
Taylor, on being examined by the doctor, was found to be suffering from an affection of the heart, and he is at the present time in the infirmary and is absolved from all work of any moment. His duties are confined to picking a pound of oakum a day.
Wilde, on the other hand, was declared to be without physical ailment, and was put to the wheel, as hard a form of labor as is meted out to prisoners at Pentonville.
He has become very thin since his incarceration, and preserves a moody, reticent bearing, avoiding any conversation except to bewail his fate.
He is in a different part of the prison from Taylor, and the two do not see each other except in chapel.