Irish Daily Independent - Wednesday, June 5, 1895
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OUR LONDON LETTER
(BY "INDEPENDENT" SPECIAL WIRE).
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).
The startling statement is made, apparently on good authority, that Oscar Wilde has become insane since he went to Pentonville to undergo his sentence of two years’ hard labour. There is nothing improbably or surprising in the story. It is likely that Wilde was, to all intents and purposes, insane for a long time. It was certainly the act of a madman to proceed with the prosecution against the Marquis of Queensberry, and to go into the witness box and make the astounding admissions which he did. The story is revived that Sir Edward Clarke will proceed at once with a motion of quashing the conviction of Wilde on the grounds that the indictment was irregular in a legal sense. The legal point involved is said to be of great importance, and it is positively stated that it will be raised as soon as Sir Edward Clarke returns to town after a brief holiday.