THE LONDON SCANDAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9827, 23 May 1895, Page 5

THE LONDON SCANDAL.

TAYLOR FOUND GUILTY. LORD QUEENSBERRY AND HIS SON. A BRAWL IN THE STREET.

FATHER AND SON ARRESTED. Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.

London, May 21. Tavlor, who is on trial with Oscar Wilde in connection with what is known as the London scandal, was found guilty.

Later. Taylor was convicted on two counts in connection with Charles William Parker. Sentence has been postponed.

The relations existing between the Marquis of Queensberry and his sou (Lord Alfred Douglas), arising out of the Oscar Wilde scandal, continue strained, and in Piccadilly to-day the Marquis severely chastised his son. Both were arrested, and subsequently admitted to bail.

London, May 22.

Lord Alfred Douglas began the quarrel by calling the Marquis of Queensberry a liar and slanderer. The latter eventually knocked his son down. A furious struggle resulted, until the police interfered and separated the pair.

Our London correspondent writes —It is not likely that you will expect me to dilate on the details of tho nauseous case of which Oscar Wilde is the loathsome and most unheroic hero. He has few who wish him well through the criminal prosecution which he is now undergoing. Most people think ib will be a crave misfortune to Society if ever he regains that freedom which, on his own showing, he has so vilely abused. What everybody is commenting on in strong terms is the fact that such a creature as this Wilde should have been able to get Lord Queensberry, or any decent person, arrested and deprived of liberty for several hours, for seeking to protect his son from the contamination of Wilde's company. Clearly there is something out; of joint here. It seems now, thab Wilde's notorious and detestable story, "Dorian Grey," when ib originally appeared in Lippincott's Magazine without any fault of Messrs. Lippincott themselves it is only fair to say - encountered a most slashing slating from the St. James' Gazette, whereupon Wilde threatened a libel action, bub did nob bring ib ! Much surprise has been expressed that in spite of the horrible disclosures in the Wilde case Lord Douglas of Hawick and Lord Alfred Douglas still take part with Wilde against their father, and that the elder of the two brothers should have penned and published the gross falsehood that " every member of our family except our father disbelieves absolutely and entirely the allegations of the defence " (in the Queensberry prosecution), a statement which was promptly refuted by the Rev. Lord Archibald Douglas, Lord Queensberry's brother, who wrote, •' we do most certainly believe those allegations and repudiate any sympathy with the statements of my nephew." The Marquis' sister, Lady Florence Dixie, and his mother, take exactly the same view a& that pub forth by Lord Archibald. Assuredly they hare the sympathy of all decent people. The two younger Douglases must have been completely hypnotised by that satyr Wilde.