The Cork Examiner - Tuesday, May 28, 1895

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

London, Monday. [...] The strain on all concerned in the Wilde case must have been very great. The Solicitor-General, like Sir Edward Clarke, never once left court during the whole six days of the trial. The stubbornness with which the case was fought on both sides was most remarkable, and the personal encounters between the two leading counsel, especially those which created so much sensation on Saturday morning, will long be remembered as the fiercest scenes of the kind which have ever been witnessed in court. Both Sir Edward Clarke and Sir Frank Lockwood attended Parliament every day after their work at the Old Bailey, and as the latter must also have had the ordinary work (which is not light) of law officer of the Crown to discharge, he must have been glad, we imagine, when Saturday night came. It is a somewhat curious coincidence that Oscar Wilde is, or rather was, a near neighbour of both Mr Justice Charles and Mr Justice Wills. Sir Arthur Charles lives on the Chelsea Embankment at Shelley House. Sir Alfred Wills resides at Chelsea Lodge, 42, Tite street. The number of Oscar Wilde's house in the same street is 16.