The Oscar Wilde Scandal.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 277, 28 May 1895, Page 2

The Oscar Wilde Scandal.

(Per Press Association.) London, May 26Wilde, after being sentenced, appeared quite dazed and horror-struck. Iv his despair lie weakly muttered a request to be permitted to address the Court, but this was unheeded, and the wardens hurried him off to his cell. During the trial Wilde said he always understood Taylor to be a respectable man, and, referring to his association with him, said the reason for the friendship was because he personally liked praise, and lionising was delightful to him. Sir Edward Clarke, Q.C., counsel for the accused, declared that the witnesses for the persecution were blackmailers, and that it was impossible to believe them. The jury asked whether it was intended to arrest Lord Alfred Douglas. The Judge replied that he was not aware of the intention of the police, but in any case it did not effect the present trial. The jury thought that if Wilde's letter showed him to be guilty, the guilt applied equally to Lord Alfred Douglas. The Marquis of Queensbery and his two sons, Lord Alfred Douglas and Lord Douglas of Hawick were all present at the close of the trial.