The Washington Post - Friday, April 5, 1895
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BEERBOHM TREE’S LETTER.
He Explains the Anonymous Communication Which He Gave to Wilde.
Baltimore, Md., April 4.—Mr. Herbert Beerbohm Tree, the eminent English actor, who is filling an engagement at Albaugh’s Lyceum Theater, and whose name has been mentioned in the testimony in the Oscar Wilde libel case, was gratified to know that Justice Collins, who is trying the case, would not allow the counsel to even mention Mr. Tree’s name in connection with the scandalous affair. The justice is quoted as saying that "every one understands that Mr. Tree’s connection with the case is in every way honorable and praiseworthy."
BALTIMORE, April 4. - Mr. Beerbohm Tree, the English actor whose name has been mentioned in the testimony in the Oscar Wilde libel case, was gratified to know that Justice Collins, who is trying the case, would not allow the counsel to even mention Mr. Tree's name in connection with the affair. Mr. Tree said he had sent a cablegram to Mr. Carson asking that his connection with the case be fully explained. He gave to the United Press this copy of the message:
Mr. Tree said he had sent a cablegram to Sir Edward Carson asking that his connection with the case be fully explained. It read as
follows: Carson, Q. C., Central Criminal Court, London:
I see my name mentioned in Wilde case. Am not in possession of evidence, but facts are these:
During rehearsals of "Woman of No Importance," I received anonymous letter, which I considered my duty to at once hand to Mr. Wilde.
(Signed.)
TREE.
"The Woman of No Importance" is the play written by Oscar Wilde and first produced by Mr. Tree at the Haymarket Theater, London. The letter which Mr. Tree received he handed to Mr. Wilde while the latter was on the stage of the theater watching the rehearsal of the play.
The "Woman of No Importance" is the play written by Oscar Wilde, and first produced by Mr. Tree at the Haymarket Theatre, London. The letter which Mr. Tree received he handed to Mr. Wilde while the latter was on the stage of the theatre watching the rehearsal of the play.
The "Woman of No Importance" is the play written by Oscar Wilde and first produced by Mr. Tree at the Haymarket theatre, London. The letter which Mr. Tree received he handed to Mr. Wilde while the latter was on the stage of the theatre watching the rehearsal of the play.
"The Woman of No Importance " is the play written by Oscar Wilde and first produced by Mr. Tree at the Haymarket theatre, London. The letter which Mr. Tree received he handed to Mr. Wilde while the latter was on the stage of the theatre watching the rehearsal of the play.
"A Woman of No Importance" is the play written by Oscar Wilde, and first produced by Mr. Tree at the Haymarket Theatre, London. The letter which Mr. Tree received he handed to Mr. Wilde while the latter was on the stage of the theatre watching the rehearsal of the play.