The New York Times - Sunday, May 26, 1895
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By Commercial Cable from Our Own Correspondent.
LONDON, May 25 --[Copyright, 1895, by The New-York Times.]
The impression that high influences were at work to protect Oscar Wilde has been so prevalent that his conviction has taken everybody by surprise. It was supposed that, at the most, the jury would again disagree. His sentence, which is the maximum, settles the action of the police in a matter which they have been holding under advisement. It is stated on good authority that they have a list of 400 gentlemen of England--some in the peerage, one at least said to be in the Ministry, and several well known on the Opposition benches--and these are now to be served with notice that they must at once abandon all possible suggestions of offense, including association with people known to the police, or leave the country within three months.
H. F.