WILDEISM WIDELY SPREAD.
While Oscar Wilde's oase has absorbed publio attention for weeks, the reoords of the London Police Oourt show (according to Ballard Smith, the correspondent in this case) that persons accuaed of the offence of whioh he is convioted come frequently before the magistrates. On the very day Wilde was convicted John Goodohild, 28 years old, and said to have a fine education, was sentenced to two yearn' hard labor for this identical crime. The Judge remarked that no country can remain great while such persons are allowed to live free in it. He believed, indeed, that they should not be allowed to live it all.
The Marquis of Queensbury declares that if the Treasury does not reimburse him for tha £2000 that he expended in the defence of the libel suit which led to the prosecution of Wilde he will ask some member to bring the question before Parliament.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7397, 21 June 1895, Page 2
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