The Washington Post - Monday, May 27, 1895
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Three Chapters in an Endless Drama.
Three acts of unusual interest in the world-wide and never-ending drama of crime occurred last Saturday. The most sensational of the trio was reported from London, where Oscar Wilde, the leader of the aesthetic craze and the author of some good work in literature, as well as of some work that is decidedly not good, was convicted of unspeakable vileness and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment at hard labor. Wilde’s friends speak of him as the innocent victim of misconception and prejudice, but the judge who presided at the trial had no doubt of his guilt. The reader can take his choice of these conflicting views.
[...] There are good lessons in each of these three chapters from the criminal records of a day. And since the only use of a crime is to point a moral, it is well to look at such occurrences with a view to getting instruction. The Wilde incident has no parrallel in this country, and we trust it may never have.