TEE WILDE-TAYLOR SCANDAL.
ACCUSED FOUND GUILTY. SCATHING BEMARKS FROM THE JUDGE. TWO YEARS' IMPRISONMENT. London, May 26. The trial of Oscar Wilde was concluded to-day. The summing up of the Judge occupied three hours, and the jury wore absent) two hours in considering their verdict. At the end of that time they returned with a verdict of " guilty " on all counts. His Honor, in sentencing the prisoners (Wilde and Taylor), spoke with great emotion. The verdict, he said, to his mind, was a correct one beyond all shadow of doubt, and it appeared to him useless to address the prisoners, who were evidently dead to all sense of shame. . The case was the worst of the kind he had ever had before him, and in passing 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 haggard and dazed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7290, 27 May 1895, Page 2
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171TEE WILDE-TAYLOR SCANDAL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7290, 27 May 1895, Page 2
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