Jamaica Post - Thursday, April 18, 1895
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Late Foreign News
OSCAR WILDE UNDER ARREST
London, April 5. - Oscar Wilde, who for twenty years has, after one fashion or another, attracted to himself the attention of the cultivated world of both England and America, and who posed by turns as a langorous aesthete, a caustic cynic and a producer of brilliant epigrams and witty paradoxes, is tonight the occupant of a Bow Street Police Court cell, on a charge which, in the eyes of most honest men, is more odious than even that of murder.
London, April 5.—Oscar Wilde, who for twenty years has, after one fashion or another, attracted to himself the attention of the cultivated world of both England and America, and who posed by turns as a languorous aesthete, a caustic cynic, and a producer of brilliant epigrams and witty paradoxes, is to-night the occupant of a Bow street police court cell on a charge which, in the eyes of most honest men, is more odious than even that of murder.
LONDON, April 5, 1895. Oscar Wilde, who for twenty years has, after one fashion or another, attracted to himself the attention of the cultivated world of both England and America and who posed by turns as a languorous aesthete, a caustic cynic. and a producer of brilliant epigrams and witty paradoxes. is tonight the occupant of a Bow Street Police Court cell on a charge which, in the eyes of most honest men, is more odious than even that of murder.
London, April 6.--Mr. Oscar Wilde, who for twenty years has, after one fashion or another, attracted to himself the attention of the cultivated world both of England and America; who has posed by turns as a languorous aesthete, as a caustic cynic and as a producer of brilliant epigrams and witty paradox is, as I write, the occupant of a Bow Street Police Court cell on a charge which in the eyes of most honest men is even more odious than that of murder.
Yesterday was a day of sensationalism, which though some of its startling sensationalism, which though some of its startling effects were carefully prepared in advance by master hands, was in its essence intensely dramatic.
Yesterday was a day of sensationalism which, though some of its startling effects were carefully prepared in advance by master hands, was in its essence intensely dramatic.
Yesterday was a day of sensationalism which, though one at least of its startling effects was carefully prepared in advance by a master hand, was in its essence intensely dramatic.
Yesterday was a day of sensationalism, which though some of its startling enacts were carefully prepared in advance by master hands, was in its essence intensely dramatic.
Thus I am told on the best authority that an arrangement as to Wilde's withdrawal from the prosecution was arrived at between counsel late on Thursday night. Mr Carson, however, insisted he should be allowed to continue his address to the jury long enough to bring out such essential facts as he deemed necessary.
Thus I am told on the best authority that an arrangement as to Wilde’s withdrawal from the prosecution was arrived at between counsel late on Thursday night. Mr. Carson, however, insisted he should be allowed to continue his address to the jury long enough to bring out such essential facts as he deemed necessary.
Thus I am told on the best authority that an arrangement as to Wilde`s withdrawal from the prosecution was arrived at between counsel late on Thursday night. Mr. Carson, however, insisted he should be allowed to continue his address to the jury long enough to bring out such essential facts as be deemed necessary.
I am told on the best authority that the arrangement as to Mr. Wilde's withdrawal from the prosecution was arrived at between counsel late on Thursday night. Mr. Carson, however, insisted that he should be allowed to continue his address to the jury long enough to bring out such essential facts as he deemed necessary. Indeed the signal for Sir E. Clarke's rising was actually given by Mr. Carson himself, when he thought the proper moment had arrived.