The Irish News and Belfast Morning News - Monday, April 29, 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 adjournment yesterday. 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. The letters mentioned in the Queensberry case were found in clothes given him by Lord Alfred Douglas at Oxford. Frederick Atkins, who accompanied
Wilde to Paris, was the next called for the prosecution. He said that on their return to London Wilde asked him to say nothing about the visit. Atkins was
subjected to a long and searching cross-examination. He gave an emphatic denial to the suggestion that with others he had blackmailed several gentlemen.
The case was again adjourned.
Sir Edward Clarke cross-examined Alfred Wood, who was in the witness box at the adjournment yesterday. 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. The letters mentioned in the Queensberry case were found in clothes given him by Lord Alfred Douglas at Oxford. Frederick Atkins, who accompanied Wilde to Paris, was the next called for the prosecution. He said that on their return to London Wilde asked him to say nothing about the visit. Atkins was subjected to a long and searching cross-examination. He gave an emphatic denial to the suggestion that with others he had blackmailed several gentlemen.