The Oscar Wilde Scandal.
♦— ■ WILDE ANDTAYLOR FOUND GUILTY. TWO YEABS' HARD LABOR. London, May 25. j Tbe trial of Oscar Wilde was concluded to-day. The summing up of the Judge occupied three hours, and the jury were absent two hours in considering theh verdict. At the end of that time tbey returned with a verdict of guilty on all counts. His Honor, in sentencing the prisoners, Wilde and Taylor, spoke with great emotion. The verdict, to his mind, was right beyond all shadow of deubt, and it appeared to him useless to address the prisoners, who were evidently dead to nil sense of shame. The case was the worst of its kind he had ever had before him, and in pasaing the most severe sentence the law permitted, he regretted that it was totally inadequate to the dastardly nature of the offence. He then sentenced each prisoner to two years' hard labor. Taylor left the dock with a firm step, but Wilde appeared quite dazed and horrorstruck.. In his despair' he weakly, raurrnured a request to be permitted to address the Court, but this was unheeded, and the warders hurried him off to bis cell.
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Mataura Ensign, Volume 17, 28 May 1895, Page 5
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