The New York Herald (European Edition) - Thursday, May 23, 1895

Trial of Oscar Wilde.
[BY THE HERALD'S SPECIAL WIRE.]

London, May 23.--Oscar Wilde surrendered to his bail and was once more put on trial at the Old Bailey yesterday. He looked very ill and careworn, and when called upon stepped heavily into the dock and sat down in the corner farthest from the jury. Sir Edward Clarke and Mr. Charles Matthews defended him, while the prosecution, as in the case of Taylor, was in the hands of the Solicitor-General, Sir Frank Lockwood; Mr. C. F. Gill and Mr. Avory.

Nothing was brought out in the evidence given yesterday that has not already been published. Edward Shelley, the youth of literary tastes, who had been a clerk with Messrs. Elkin Matthews and John Lane, Alfred Wood and Charles Parker gave evidence. The chief feature of Sir Edward Clarke's cross-examination was his endeavor to elicit some confession from Shelley as to the occurrence of mental disorder, the object being to render his evidence unreliable. Shelley, however, went no farther in this respect than he had done at the previous trial. The case was adjourned to to-day, Wilde being again let out on bail.