The Chicago Tribune - Saturday, April 27, 1895
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WILDE AND TAYLOR PUT UPON TRIAL.
Prisoners Being Tried on Twenty-five Sepa-
rate Counts of the
Indictment.
London, April 26. - Oscar Wilde and Alfred Taylor were placed on trial today at the Old Bailey and pleaded not guilty. Men and women twenty deep filled the corridors of the Old Bailey and fought vainly for standing room near the door through which the prisoners entered the court. Wilde was dressed as usual, but his face was drawn and haggard and his swagger had entirely disappeared. Justice Charles decided that prisoners should be tried on all of the twenty-five separate counts of the indictment. C. F. Gill opened the case for the prosecution, dwelling upon the association of Wilde with Taylor, and giving a graphic description of Taylor’s darkened, perfumed rooms, where Wilde was in the habit of meeting his associates. The testimony of Charles Parker, the first witness, was revolting, but the Judge held it to be necessary that the charges against Wilde should be explained in detail.