Belfast News-Letter - Saturday, May 25, 1895
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THE OSCAR WILDE CASE.
The trial of Wilde was resumed at the Old Bailey yesterday. The prisoner, who betrayed tokens of the keenest anxiety, had a consultation with his counsel, and afterwards talked with Lord Douglas of Hawick before entering the dock. Sir Edward Clarke, on behalf of the prisoner, said he had to deal with the remnants of the case. He animadverted upon the conduct of the case by counsel for the Crown, and said he should call Wilde to face for the third time the cross-examination to which he might be subjected. He submitted that Wilde's conduct throughout had been that of an innocent man, and on the evidence he urged that the jury could only return a verdict of not guilty. The prisoner then entered the witness-box and denied that there was any truth whatever in the charges made against him. After the evidence of the prisoner, Sir Edward Clarke addressed the jury for the defence, and the Solicitor-General having replied for the Crown, the case was again adjonrned.