OSCAR WILDE SCANDAL.
PROSECUTION BY THE
TREASURY.
THE ACCUSED REMANDED WITHOUT BAIL. Press Assodiation.-Electric Teleßraph.-CopyrUht. London, April 6. The warrant for the arrest of Oscar Wilde was issued at the instance of the Treasury.
Although Wilde's name has been removed from the playbills the companies continue to play his pieces for the present.
Wilde, in his letter to the press explaining his reason for abandoning the case, states he is willing to bear ignominy in order to avoid calling Lord Douglas to give evidence against his father, but says the son was eager and quite willing to enter the box.
London, April 7. Oscar "Wilde was remanded till Thursday. Bail was not allowed.
Paris, April 7. Parisian society is petrified at Wilde's exposure.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9789, 9 April 1895, Page 5
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