La Época - Tuesday, April 9, 1895
This report was originally published in Spanish. Machine translations may be available in other languages.
Proceso escandaloso en Londres.
Hemos dado cuenta del origen, curso y término del proceso intentado en Londres por el marqués de Queensbury contra Oscar Wilde. Siguiendo en nuestro propósito de no reproducir los pormenores repugnantes enumerados por los testigos, no entraremos en terreno tan peligroso, limitándonos á referir algunos detalles de los protagonistas del hecho.
Oscar Wilde es un autor dramático muy conocido.
Actualmente se representan en Londres dos obras suyas, una en el Teatro de Haymarket, y otra en el de Saint James, cuyos directores no han querido quitarlas de los carteles por no poner á los actores en la calle, pero han borrado el nombre del autor.
Un telegrama de Nueva York dice que en el teatro del Liceo, donde se pone en escena El marido ideal, de Oscar Wilde, se ha borrado igualmente su nombre del cartel.
Miss Rose Coghlan, que está haciendo una excursión artística por los Estados orientales y que debía representar anteayer Una mujer sin importancia, de Oscar Wilde, ha suprimido la comedia de su repertorio.
Pocos días antes de la vista del proceso, el marqués de Queensbury escribió á Oscar Wilde la siguiento carta:
«Si la Policía permite que os escapéis, mejor para vos; pero si os acompañase mi hijo os seguiré adonde quiera que vayáis y os mataré.»
Oscar Wilde es hijo de un médico irlandés, y se casó en 1884 con miss Lloyd, hija de un riquísimo banquero, de la cual tiene dos hijos.
La Westminster Gazette publica una serie de inte resantes observaciones acerca del proceso.
El juez Henn Collins, que presidía los debates judiciales en Old Bailey; Oscar Wilde, el acusador, mister Carson, defensor del marqués, y Mr. Gill, su abogado, son todos irlandeses, graduados en la Universidad de Dublin.
Además, Mr. Wilde y su implacable cross examinator Mr. Carson son compañeros de carrera; estuvieron en el Trinity College, de Dublin, y se graduaron el mismo día. Mr. Wilde era uno dé los alumnos más distinguidos, y cuando estudió en Oxford hizo exámenes brillantísimos de literatura clásica.
Oscar Wilde fué preso en una fonda de Sloane-street por dos deleclices.
Se hallaba en compañía de dos hijos del marqués de Oueensbury; estaba tendido indolentemente en un sofá, fumando, y se entregó sin resistencia á los agentes.
Durante el trayecto de Sloane street á Scotland-Yard fué, en carruaje, hojeando un ejemplar de la revista literaria Yellow book. Al bajar del coche se tambaleaba de tal manera, que todo el mundo comprendió que estaba borracho.
Desde Scotland Yard fué llevado á Bow street, donde ocupa una celda.
Al ser detenido llevaba en una cartera veinte billetes de cinco libras esterlinas, ó sean 2.500 pesetas; circunstancia que permite sospechar que trataba de huir aquella noche, tanto más cuando se le encontro en una fonda que no frecuentaba.
Scandalous process in London.
We have given an account of the origin, course and end of the process attempted in London by the Marquis of Queensbury against Oscar Wilde. Continuing in our purpose of not reproducing the repugnant details enumerated by the witnesses, we will not enter such dangerous terrain, limiting ourselves to referring to some details of the protagonists of the event.
Oscar Wilde is a well-known playwright.
Two of his plays are currently being performed in London, one at the Haymarket Theater and the other at Saint James's, whose directors have not wanted to remove them from the posters for not putting the actors on the street, but they have erased the author's name. .
A telegram from New York says that at the Liceo theater, where Oscar Wilde's The Ideal Husband is being staged, his name has also been removed from the poster.
Miss Rose Coghlan, who is making an artistic tour of the Eastern States and was due to perform Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance the day before yesterday, has dropped comedy from her repertoire.
A few days before the trial hearing, the Marquess of Queensbury wrote the following letter to Oscar Wilde:
«If the Police allow you to escape, better for you; but if my son accompanies you, I will follow you wherever you go and kill you.”
Oscar Wilde is the son of an Irish doctor, and in 1884 he married Miss Lloyd, the daughter of a very wealthy banker, by whom he has two children.
The Westminster Gazette publishes a series of interesting observations about the process.
Judge Henn Collins, who was presiding over judicial debates at the Old Bailey; Oscar Wilde, the prosecutor, Mr. Carson, the Marquess's defender, and Mr. Gill, his solicitor, are all Irish, graduated from Dublin University.
Furthermore, Mr. Wilde and his relentless cross examiner Mr. Carson are running partners; they were at Trinity College, Dublin, and graduated the same day. Mr. Wilde was one of the most distinguished students, and when he studied at Oxford he took brilliant examinations in classical literature.
Oscar Wilde was imprisoned in an inn in Sloane-street by two delicacies.
He was in the company of two sons of the Marquess of Oueensbury; he was lying indolently on a sofa, smoking, and he gave himself up to the agents without resistance.
On the way from Sloane Street to Scotland-Yard he went by carriage, leafing through a copy of the literary magazine Yellow Book. Getting out of the car he was staggering in such a way that everyone realized he was drunk.
From Scotland Yard he was taken to Bow Street, where he occupies a cell.
When he was arrested, he had in a wallet twenty bills of five pounds sterling, or 2,500 pesetas; circumstance that allows us to suspect that he tried to flee that night, all the more so when he was found in an inn that he did not frequent.