The Freeman’s Journal - Thursday, May 23, 1895
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LONDON CORRESPONDENCE.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
(BY SPECIAL WIRE.)
London, Thursday Morning.
[...]I hear that Lord Queensberry has been in communication with the Treasury with a view to recovering some of the large expenditure in which he was involved in connection with the Wilde case. Lord Queensberry claims that Taylor was convicted on evidence procured at his personal expense his outlay on the transaction being close on £2,000. He is by no means a wealthy man, and as he believes he has no chance of recovering his costs against Wilde, which would recoup him to some extent, he has made a claim on the Treasury in connection with the matter. It is very likely that the subject will some up in Parliament when the present case is terminated, as I believe that the Treasury offered Lord Queensberry only £35 at first, though they subsequently increased it £100, which, of course, is ridiculously disproportionate to his outlay.[...]
London, Thursday Morning. […] I hear that Lord Queensberry has been in communication with the Treasury with a view to recovering some of the large expenditure in which he was involved in connection with the Wilde case. Lord Queensberry claims that Taylor was convicted on evidence procured at his personal expense, his outlay on the transaction being close on £2,000. He is by no means a wealthy man, and as he believes he has no chance of recovering his costs against Wilde, which would recoup him to some extent, he has made a claim on the Treasury in connection with the matter. It is very likely that the subject will come up in Parliament when the present case is terminated, as I believe that the Treasury offered Lord Queensberry only £35 at first, though they subsequently increased it £100, which, of course, is ridiculously disproportionate to his outlay. […]