The New York Herald (European Edition) - Tuesday, May 21, 1895

RELEASED ON BAIL AGAIN.
Oscar Wilde's Trial Postponed Until Completion of the Proceedings in Taylor's Case.
[BY THE HERALD'S SPECIAL WIRE.]

London, May 21.--The proceedings in the Wilde case at the Old Bailey yesterday were altogether a question of procedure.

Wilde came into Court with his sureties, the Rev. Stewart Headlam and Lord Douglas of Hawick, and surrendered simultaneously with the entrance of Taylor up the dock stairs. Sir Edward Clarke at once made application that the prisoners might be tried separately. The Solicitor-General, Sir Frank Lockwood, replied that the histories of the two cases were so bound up together that it would be impossible to inquire into one case without inquiring into the other. His Lordship decided in favor of the Solicitor-General, who then said he should proceed first with the trial of Taylor. Sir Edward Clarke objected teat that would be prejudicial to Wilde, and he asked that the case of Wilde should be taken first, but his lordship said he could not interfere with the discretion of the Solicitor-General and those with him.

Sir Edward Clark thereupon asked that Wilde's case should stand over till next session, but this was again overruled, and the utmost concession Sir Edward Clarke could get for his client was that he should be again admitted to bail until the case of Taylor was ended.

The trial of the latter was then proceeded with, the only new facts brought out being that he once held a commission in a militia regiment.