The Chicago Tribune - Sunday, April 14, 1895
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Wilde Is Not the Only One.
There is good authority for the statement that the witnesses against Oscar Wilde also tendered evidence against many other notable persons. But, as in the Cleveland street case a few years ago, the police and the prosecuting authorities desire to confine the scandal within the smallest possible limit. Probably Wilde would never have been prosecuted except for his almost incredible folly in bringing suit against Lord Queensberry. The police know the extent and nature of these offences in the west end of London, but the Home Secretary, it is understood, takes the ground that the cause of public morality would not be served by exposing them in this prosecution. Notices have been quietly given to some of the offenders to leave the country. The United States has already received some of these exiles.
There is good authority for the statement that the witnesses against Oscar Wilde also tendered evidence against many other notable persons. But, as in the Cleveland-street case a few years ago, the police and the prosecuting authorities desire to confine the scandal within the smallest possible limit. Probably Wilde would never have been prosecuted except for his almost incredible folly in bringing suit against Lord Queensberry. The police know the extent and nature of these offenses in the West End of London, but the Home Secretary, it is understood, takes the ground that the cause of public morality would not be served by exposing them in this prosecution. Notices have been quietly given to some of the offenders to leave the country, and the United States has already received some of these exiles.