THE WILDE CASE.

Thames Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 8052, 24 May 1895, Page 3

THE WILDE CASE.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

(Per E.M.S. Alameda.)

••'..■ Lokdon, April 20. There is not the slightest ground for the report that Oscar Wilde attempted to commit suicide, end it is not true even (?ays a london dispatch of the 18th) that a rumor to this effect was cmrent here last evening! Further stalling revelations in connection with this deplorable case are hinted at. It is said that Alfred Taylor has determined to drag down Wilde with him if he is to prosecute him, and this will involve many men in England who have been freely whispered about in connection wi'h the scandal.

Wilde is suffering from insomnia, and sleeping draughts given him by the prison surgeon have do effect on him. He paces his cell all night long. Although he is allowed to have food sent to him from the outside, he eats almost nothing. Another prisoner cleans his cell. He is not allowed to smoke, andi may receive only a single visitor daily. The prospect of conviction with the consequent horrors of a convict's life have simply stupefied the wretched man. It is that aspect of the case which seems to -concern him, not the shame and degredation to which his vices have brought him. He is a man to whom the luxuries of life were everything, and his sole thought was self-indulgence. To Buch a one the rigours and deprivations of a prison will be the very worst kind of puoishment. , t ,-f The Wilde business is having its effect in the United States. By order of the trustees of the Newark Free Library all of Oscar Wilde's books have been taken from the shelves, and his name has been stricken from the catalogues. Three-fourths of the patrons of the library are women, and all the employees are girls. Major Lebkurcher told a reporter of the World that an explanation would be made. " The books were cast out," said Librarian Frank "Hill. " The reason is patent." A New York newsdealer reports an unprecedented number of orders for those London newspapers which printed in full the testimony in the Wilde-Queensbury case. By order of the librarian of St. Louis the works of Oscar Wilde— toems, stories and pays—were withdrawn from the public library on April 9:h. The action of the librarian is approved by the Board of Directors. The British Museum on April, 10 th withdrew fmm public use in its library all of Wilde's writings.