Labouchere on Wilde.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8558, 29 May 1895, Page 2

Labouchere on Wilde.

Mr Lahomehere, editorof London" Truth* '- who has known Oiear Wilda for years, says he has always regarded him as somewhat wrong in the head. "So strange and ... wondrous is hi* mind," remarks the obter* rant editor, <f when in an abnormal eondi* - - , tion that it would not surprise me if he ware derinng keen enjoyment from a posi* tion whioh most people, whether innocent . or guiltr, would prefer to die rather than emrupy. He must have known in what* I glass bmt'hi lived when be .challenged ; invsstigatioa in a oonrt of itutfoe. ( After , Ihe had done this he went; abroad. . ,why I iid he not ftej'»bro»df The poesJlnlifie* • of prisoamftTnotbe^pleMtnKrto-hun, buk'l ''' : belier* Cke aotoriefcr that hM OTertpken . him hM looh. • oherm for him (hat it-oa> weighs pTprjthißß cUe, •-. . I»B«iab«f in the eerly dsye'of .tiieonltof iMthetioifm - hearing «>meono adc him How* m»n of hi» pndonbted ohvnwter ooald. nuke taeh* fool , of hinwUL. He g»Te »hi» explanation t :^t had wntten, he .Mid, £ book of poemt. In Tain he wont from publi»h»r to pabliiher, aaking them to bring tham out. Ko one ' would eren read them for he Wmi unknown^ . :-., In order to find a publisher he f»lt that ht^-k; mait do lomothing to beaome upenoneiity. v> So he hit npon aithetuaam.- It tnecaeded. People talked about him and iimted him. to - their homes, as a sort of lion, He then , took his noesu to a publisher who, stall , without rending them, gladly aooeptod the MB." . .- , > " \ „< -r ftueenibeiry's Third Son* Lord ShaltoDoaglat, third and TCBBReet •on of the Mara.uis of 'Queentbeny, was plaoed in priaon at Bakersfbld, Karr Ooonty, California,- April 2SH, on a charge • of insanity; ilecame to the plaoe- about * month- or six' wdeks bofora on a visit to ' the Btogliih colony, and pwnnmabl y to 100 l after some property the family is said l» own some miles wettoftbe town.; Here*, oeived oonsiderable attention from the „ English reiidents, and attwoted much notice in the town; He beoame better known as * gentleman rider in the Britijh dab pony noes on Baiter Monday, and it was about that time he began to show his sporting proclivities. He hu had a most, hilarious time, .aooording to all ae* oounts, and one of the incidents of this period it his falling ia with a Tariety aotrew named JUorect* Addis (neaMoonay), whom ■ he' engaged to marry, and prbcared a lioanse for the, porpoie. To save the young ns*n ; ' < from this muattiaitce lus friendt had him. arrested as iniane. He is a slender, sallow^ faoed young man, below the medium height, and says he is twenty-two '-nm pi Age. He seems to lack fowe jof lohataiiter, and whafrie'may do iu^infi^^KMa^^L .urmissd. To do the Addis girl : JakSer^ she.-reoognitM the inoongruityfof the situs- , „ tion, and iteadily refoses Lord Shalto'a , , advances, advising him to tear up the mar- : riaj*Ucen»e, ajidga about hUfcurinesi. ' - The voong Lord Donglas was released the seoond day after, hit inoaroeration, as. ' no one appeared to make a charge against him. The first use, ho mad* of his . liberty was an attempt' to thrash a San Franoiaoo correspondent in Vresno, whom he oharged with writing a lot oi lies about him. to bia? - paper. Shalto got *b.« worst of the enoonnter, the . obrretpondentfr frienda > ' . " doable backed " him, •• the ' phrase goes.. ■ Then he left Fresno in disgnjt, and eren ' ' forgot to call on his inamorata. He turned" ap in San Brancisoo on the 86tbi where ha' kept his moTemeats'a profound "seoret* aToiding prinoiple hotels and evading news*,, paper reporters, for whom he entertains .» mortal hatred. Lord Douglas's purpose in . oomin* ■to Ban Izaneisoo is not explained, * ■ but his friends in Bakettfisld beliere that he inteodito remain in the ttDfeepolissnSil Mim Addis (nee Mooney) beebmes of age and then marry her. She will rt»oh that ' point on May 89th. BrerTttjinguprdbaW^ to the Qasenibsrry eooentrioifcT.' , . ' " '. . ,