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Below is the list of news reports on Wilde’s trials that were published from Washington. Select the headline of one of the reports to navigate directly to it.

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Oscar Wilde to Be Admitted to Bail. 1895-05-04 The Washington Post United States Washington English 6 1 59
OSCAR WILDE CONFUSED Pitiless Questions by Counsel Almost Made Him Lose His Temper. He hurried from the Courtroom When Mr. Carson's Denunciatory Speech Was Begun. 1895-04-05 The Washington Times United States Washington English 1 10 409
WILDE GROWS ELOQUENT.Spectators in Court Applaud His Disquisition on Spiritual Love. 1895-05-01 The Washington Post United States Washington English 1 7 352
Oscar Wilde's Bail Fixed at $25,000. 1895-05-05 The Washington Post United States Washington English 14 1 44
OSCAR WILDE LOCKED UP English Exponent of the Esthetic in Bow Street Jail. His Libel Suit Withdrawn 1895-04-06 The Washington Times United States Washington English 0 10 697
OSCAR WILDE IN A CELLSudden Collapse of His Suit Against Queensberry.ALLEGED LIBEL FOUND TO BE TRUESir Edward Clarke Waived Defense and Consented to a Verdict of Not Guilty Which Was Supplemented by a Declaration that the Charges Made by the Marquis Are True—A Warrant Was Then Sworn Out and Wilde Was Arrested. 1895-04-06 The Washington Post United States Washington English 1 35 2028
Oscar Wilde at Barr Babbacombe. 1895-05-11 The Washington Post United States Washington English 4 1 18
OSCAR WILDE SET AT LIBERTY.Lord Douglas and Rev. Stewart D. Hedlam Became His Bondsmen. 1895-05-08 The Washington Post United States Washington English 7 3 130
WILDE COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.His Counsel Give Notice of an Application for Admission to Bail. 1895-04-20 The Washington Post United States Washington English 11 7 231
OSCAR WILDE ON TRIALDamaging Evidence Against Him in Police Court.HIS FRIEND TAYLOR IS ARRESTEDBail Has Been Refused and Both Prisoners Are in Jail—The Maximum Penalty for the Crime Is Two Years’ Imprisonment—The Friends of Wilde Are Zealous in His Behalf—The Death-knell of Wildeism and Prurience in Literature Has Been Rung. 1895-04-07 The Washington Post United States Washington English 0 14 1016
WILDE JURY DISAGREEWere Unable to Find a Verdict on the Main Charges.REMANDED FOR ANOTHER TRIALThe Jury Acquitted Wilde of the Charges in Connection with Atkins and of the Charges of Conspiracy—Judge’s Charge Dealt Severely with the Evidence of Some of the Witnesses, and Ruled Out Any Inference from "Dorian Grey." 1895-05-02 The Washington Post United States Washington English 7 9 679
Oscar Wilde’s Debts Nearly $17,000. 1895-09-25 The Washington Post United States Washington English 11 1 69
The Oscar Wilde Case. 1895-04-23 The Washington Post United States Washington English 9 1 45
Wilde’s Play to Be Withdrawn. 1895-04-07 The Washington Post United States Washington English 2 1 24
WILDE TO BE TRIED SEPARATELY.He is Released on Bail Until the Taylor [...] is Disposed of. 1895-05-21 The Washington Post United States Washington English 5 3 107
TRUE BILL AGAINST WILDE.His Case, Says His Solicitors, Will Be Fought to the End. 1895-04-24 The Washington Post United States Washington English 15 5 143
Sydney Grandy Defends Wilde. 1895-04-08 The Washington Post United States Washington English 6 1 70
ALFRED TAYLOR CONVICTED.The Jury, However, Could Not Find Wilde Guilty of Indecency. 1895-05-22 The Washington Post United States Washington English 0 2 111
LORD DOUGLAS IN THE COUNTY JAIL.A Son of the Marquis of Queensberry Prevented from Making a Mesalliance. 1895-04-24 The Washington Post United States Washington English 0 0 184
THE GOSSIP OF LONDONHenry M. Stanley’s Maiden Speech in the Commons.VIEWS OF BALFOUR’S STATEMENTUnveiling of the Burns Statue at Ayr—A Railway Train Makes 540 Miles in 512 Minutes—Visit of the Japanese Premier’s Son—The African Explorer, the Late E. J. Glave, Discovers the Livingstone Tree—Oscar Wilde in Good Health. 1895-08-25 The Washington Post United States Washington English 19 1 100
BLACKED HIS BOY’S EYEMarquis of Queensberry as a Paternal Pugilist.FATHER AND SON IN STREET FIGHTLord Alfred Douglas Attacked the Marquis in Piccadilly, but Was Warmly Repulsed, with Considerable Personal Damage—The Assault Grew Out of a Joke Which the Father Had Attempted to Play on the Son’s Wife—A Comic Picture. 1895-05-22 The Washington Post United States Washington English 4 12 836
Oscar Wilde’s Books Withdrawn. 1895-04-10 The Washington Post United States Washington English 3 1 36
A Performance with a Moral. 1895-04-24 The Washington Post United States Washington English 0 0 387
Oscar Wilde’s Estate in Bankruptcy. 1895-07-25 The Washington Post United States Washington English 21 1 30
QUEENSBERRY AND SONThe Marquis and Lord of Hawick Must Keep the Peace.FATHER WANTS A GO FOR A PURSEHis Pugilistic Blood Is Up and Lord Douglas Can Get All the Punishment He Wants—The Marquis Cheered by the Crowd at the Hearing, While His Son Is Jeered At—Second Trial of Oscar Wilde Begun—The Prisoner Indisposed. 1895-05-23 The Washington Post United States Washington English 3 16 654
OSCAR WILDE’S WRITINGS.But One of His Works at the Congressional Library, and Cannot Be Withdrawn. 1895-04-11 The Washington Post United States Washington English 0 0 242
OSCAR WILDE ON TRIAL.He Looks Careworn and Shows the Effects of Imprisonment. 1895-04-27 The Washington Post United States Washington English 8 2 169
WHAT WILDE MUST DOPerform Four Hours on the Pentonville Treadmill.LIKE 11 MILES OF STAIRSThat Is the Equivalent of a Day’s Work on an English Treadmill—Wilde is Now Picking Oakum, but When His Health Improves He Must Climb the Revolving Stairs—Pugilist Mitchell Tried It and Says It Was the Hardest Kind of Work. 1895-06-16 The Washington Post United States Washington English 2 14 1243
WHY WILDE LIKED YOUNG MEN.They Admired and Praised Him and He Loved them Poetically. 1895-05-25 The Washington Post United States Washington English 3 6 313
WILDE AGAIN ON TRIALFurther Testimony as to Misconduct with Youth.KISSES BESTOWED UPON SHELLEYA Young Man Named Atkins Acted as His Secretary for Half an Hour and Wore His Hair Curled to Please the Aesthete—Wilde Remanded Without Bail—A Publishing Firm Withdraws "Dorian Grey" from Circulation—His Books Selling Fast. 1895-04-12 The Washington Post United States Washington English 5 12 577
THE OSCAR WILDE TRIAL.Case for the Prosecution Concluded with Yesterday’s Evidence. 1895-04-30 The Washington Post United States Washington English 4 3 166
Oscar Wilde in Prison. 1895-06-02 The Washington Post United States Washington English 8 1 103
OSCAR WILDE A FELONFound Guilty and Sentenced to Two Years in Prison.ALFRED TAYLOR SHARES HIS FATEWhen Sentence Was Pronounced the Author Appeared Stunned, and Was Hurried Off to His Cell, the Judge Peremptorily Refusing a Postponement of Sentence—His Charge Distinctly Against the Prisoner—Cries of "Shame!" 1895-05-26 The Washington Post United States Washington English 3 14 690
Oscar Wilde’s Books and Plays. 1895-04-12 The Washington Post United States Washington English 0 0 278
EPIGRAMS FROM WILDESpicy Talk at the Marquis of Queensberry’s Trial.HIS PROSE SONNET IN EVIDENCEA Remarkable Letter to a Young Man Which, Oscar Says, Should Be Judged Solely by the Canons of Art, According to Which He Rates It a Thing of Beauty—He Denies Improper Relations with Boys—Cynical Latter-day Views of Morals. 1895-04-04 The Washington Post United States Washington English 11 21 1587
Oscar Wilde Reported Insane. 1895-06-05 The Washington Post United States Washington English 11 1 46
Three Chapters in an Endless Drama. 1895-05-27 The Washington Post United States Washington English 0 0 166
FROM THE GAY CAPITALParisian Gossip of Art, Drama, Fashion, and Scandal.DE BLOWITZ CAUSES A SENSATIONThe Times’ Correspondent Accused Paris Journalists of Selling Information to Freign Embassies—Sarah Bernhardt’s New Play—Immense Hats and Enormous Skirts Characterize the Easter Fashions—Interest in the Wilde Scandal. 1895-04-14 The Washington Post United States Washington English 1 1 41
THE WILDE LIBEL CASETestimony for the Prosecution Concluded Yesterday.WHAT THE DEFENSE WILL PROVEThe Complainant Gives Evidence as to His Relations with Men and Boys, Denying Improper Action—He Likes Youth Because Happy, Careless, and Original, and Preferable to the Company of Sensible People—Opening of the Defense. 1895-04-05 The Washington Post United States Washington English 4 12 869
OSCAR WILDE A MELANCHOLIC.A Denial of a Report That He Is Confined in a Padded Cell. 1895-06-06 The Washington Post United States Washington English 7 1 109
TIRED OF AN ALLIANCEConservatives Drifting Away from the Unionists.TORIES WANT TO BE RID OF THEMIf the Former Gain Sufficient Strength in the Elections They Will Throw the Chamberlain Faction Overboard—A New Anti-Lords Motion—Developments in the Upper Nile Problem—Further Revelations in the Oscar Wilde Scandal. 1895-04-14 The Washington Post United States Washington English 6 1 94
BEERBOHM TREE’S LETTER.He Explains the Anonymous Communication Which He Gave to Wilde. 1895-04-05 The Washington Post United States Washington English 2 2 215
THEATRICAL NOTES. 1895-04-14 The Washington Post United States Washington English 1 1 42