The Cromwell Argus - Tuesday, April 9, 1895
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London, April 6.
The charge of libel brought by Oscar Wilde against the Marquis of Queensberry resulted in a verdict of not guilty, the jury considering the charges were for the public benefit. Wilde's counsel withdrew from the case to avoid, as he said, appalling evidence which could be adduced. Wilde's letters and literature justified the plea that Wilde posed as an immoral person. Oscar Wilde was afterwards arrested, also a man named Taylor. The Marquis of Queensberry, before that, sent Wilde a message that he would shoot him if he took Lord Douglas abroad.