The New York Times - Sunday, November 24, 1895
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By Commercial Cable from Our Own Correspondent.
I hear from a Prison Board official that there has been a serious collapse in Oscar Wilde’s case. He is utterly broken and it is regarded as improbable that he will live through the Winter. His wife has been assiduous in calling at permitted intervals since his sentence. There is also current among the prison doctors an extraordinary report about Mrs. Maybrick, who is described as approaching an ordeal which was certainly not contemplated when she was sentenced, and which is expected to raise a lively row inside the prison management, even if it escapes public discussion.
Harold Frederick cables the following rather interesting bit of news to the New York Times from London, Eng.: "I hear from a prisons board official that there has been a serious collapse in Oscar Wilde’s case. He is utterly broken brown, and it is regarded as improbable that they will live through the winter. His wife has been assiduous in calling at permitted intervals since his sentence. There is also current rumor among the prison doctors an extraordinary report about Mrs. Maybrick, who is described as approaching an ordeal which was certainly not contemplated when she was sentenced, and which is expected to raise a lively row inside the prison management, even if it escapes public discussion."
H.F.