Galignani Messenger - Friday, April 19, 1895
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OSCAR WILDE SCANDAL
FURTHER ARRESTS IMMINENT.
[BY TELEPHONE TO "THE GALIGNANI MESSENGER".]
LONDON, April 19.
Any amount of startling gossip is going the round as to the Wilde case, which again comes before the public to-day. One rumour, which I have good grounds for believing true, is to the effect that proceedings have been definitely decided upon against certain persons other than the two already in custody. I can, of course, give no names, but the report does not, like most of the others one hears on the subject, absolutely lack ground.
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Our Milan correspondent writes: The Oscar Wilde scandal seems to interest the Italians,
for the various incidents have been
telegraphed to the newspapers here day by day. The reason it seems to interest them
so much is that it gives the writers here an opportunity of pointing
out to the English that they should not hold themselves up to the world as paragons
of purity and examples of good morals, especially when they do so at
the expense of their Continental neighbours. The articles, however, are more considerate
than unkind, but they all sympathise with the Marquis of
Queensberry, and commend the determined effort to save his son from social misfortune
and contumely that inevitably follows such an equivocal mode of
life.