Belfast News-Letter - Monday, April 8, 1895
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OUR LONDON LETTER.
BY OUR PRIVATE WIRE.
BELFAST NEWS-LETTER OFFICE, 169, FLEET STREET, E.C., SUNDAY NIGHT.
[...]The Marquis of Queensberry has been at considerable expense in defending the libel action brought against him by Oscar Wilde—something close upon £1,500—but his unhappy prosecutor, having miserably failed, will have to pay all the taxed costs. A rumour was current last night that Wiide had made an attempt upon his life, but there was no foundation for it beyond the fact that the police at Bow Street thought it a safe precaution to remove his breastpin before sending him off in the police van to Holloway Jail with Taylor, his alleged associate in crime. The Scotland Yard authorities state that they have obtained a warrant for the arrest of "an important personage," and there is reason to believe that other arrests will follow. The public are very angry, as well as disgusted, and any attempt to hush up a grave scandal to modern society would be visited by the severest indignation. The Public Prosecutor has so far gone to work very expeditiously.