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VERY LATEST.
TOWN EDITION.
THIS DAY.
PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.
PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.

THE QUEENSBERRY-WILDE CASE.

LONDON,APRIL 3.

Immense crowds attend the trial of the Marquis of Queensberry on a charge of libelling Oscar Wilde. The evidence adduced to-day showed that wilde had paid heavy blackmail for his gushing letters to Lord Alfred Douglas (the Marquis's son), which were found in the pockets of old clothes when given away. The defence is based on the revelations in these letters.