Dublin Evening Telegraph - Saturday, April 27, 1895
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The Oscar Wilde Case.
London, Saturday.
The trial of Oscar Wilde and Alfred Taylor was resumed at the Central Criminal Court to-day, before Mr Justice
Charles. Sir Edward Clarke cross-examined Alfred Wood, who was in the witness box at the time of the adjournment on Friday. Wood said he induced Wilde to
give him money with which to go to America, on the pretext that he wished to sever himself from certain acquaintances. Notwithstanding this he returned to
England. He received in all £175 from Allen. The letters mentioned in the Queensberry case were found in clothes given him by Lord Alfred Douglas at
Oxford.
The trial of Oscar Wilde and Alfred Taylor was resumed at the Central Criminal Court to-day, before Mr Justice Charles. Sir Edward Clarke cross-examined Alfred Wood, who was in the witness box at the time of the adjournment on Friday. Wood said he induced Wilde to give him money with which to go to America, on the pretext that he wished to sever himself from certain acquaintances.
Frederick Atkins, who accompanied Wilde to Paris, was the next witness called for the prosecution. He described certain alleged acts of Wilde at their hotel, and said that on their return to London Wilde asked him to say nothing about the visit. No act such as alleged had ever taken place between himself and Wilde.
Atkins was subjected to a long and searching cross-examination. He denied that he and a fellow bookmaker’s clerk named Burton had blackmailed a Birmingham gentleman in June, 1891, at their rooms in Tachbrook street. He gave an equally emphatic denial to the suggestion that, dressed a woman, he took a gentleman to Pimlico, and blackmailed him to the extent of £200, or that he had blackmailed to the extent of a large sum of money two American gentlemen at the Hotel Victoria, Northumberland avenue. He further denied that, with Burton, he engaged in blackmailing at Gaze’s Hotel, Nice.
Replying to Mr Grain, Atkins said it was not true that either he or Burton obtained about this time last year £500 from a foreign Count, whose yacht was lying off Scarborough. Witness was known in the betting ring as "Fred," and his friend Burton was called "Watson." While staying at Gaze’s Hotel, Nice, he and Burton did not quarrel and part, but there might have been a little row.
Replying to Mr Grain, Atkins said it was not true that either he or Burton obtained about this time last year £500 from a foreign Count, whose yacht was lying off Scarborough. Witness was known in the betting ring as "Fed" and his friend Burton was called "Watson." While staying at Gaze's Hotel, Nice, he and Burton did not quarrel and part, but there might have been a little row.
Sydney Mayor, who described himself as holding a partnership in the city, detailed the circumstances of his acquaintanceship with Wilde, but denied all allegations.
Sydney Mayor, who described himself as holding a partnership in the city, detailed the circumstances of his acquaintanceship with Wilde, but denied all allegations.
Sidney Mavor, who described himself as holding a partnership in the city, detailed the circumstances of his acquaintanceship with Wilde. He was followed in the witness box by the bookseller’s assistant, Edward Shelley, who appeared much distressed.
He was followed in the witness-box by the booksellers’ assistant, Edward Shelly, who appeared much distressed by a compulsory recital of Wilde’s treatment of him at the Albemarle Hotel on two separate occasions.
He was followed in the witness-box by the booksellers' assistant, Edward Shelly, who appeared much distressed by a compulsory recital of Wilde's treatment of him at the Albemarble Hotel on two separate occasions.