El Guadalete - Wednesday, May 29, 1895
This report was originally published in Spanish. Machine translations may be available in other languages.
Los escándalos de Lóndres.
El marqués de Queensberry continúa implacable en su campaña contra sus hijos y contra el grande amigo de éstos. Oscar Wilde.
Uno de los incidentes de esta campaña se desarrolló el martes pasado coram populo en una de las calles más concurridas y más aristocráticas de Londres, en Piccadilly.
El marqués salia del tribunal del Old Bailey de ver coodenar á Taylor, uno de los principales cómplices de Oscar Wilde, é iba frotándose de gozo las manos, cuando se encuentra cara aàcara con su hijo mayor, lord Douglas of Hawick.
Verse padre é hijo y agarrarse fuè una misma cosa.
Lord Douglas fué el primero en acometer, y de una trompada derribó el reluciente sombrero de copa del autor de sus dias y de sus noches. El marqués de Queensberry se acordó entonces de su reputación de pugilista y de que es autor de unas reglas de boxeo, famosas en todo el mundo inglés, y se dedicó á practicarlas en la cabeza de su hijo.
Casi instantaneamente se formó en torno de los dos aristocráticos luchadores un corro que aplaudía con entusiasmo la soberana paliza que con todas las reglas del arte el viejo estaba propinando á su vastágo. Este, aunque queria devolver golpe per golpe, era inferior en habilidad a su padre.
Un soberbío black eye administrado lord Douglas puso término al combate. El black eye (ojo negro) es un trompazo recibido en un ojo y que en pocas horas hace pasar á éste y á su vecíndad por todos los colores del prisma. Los periódicos de Londres, al dar cuenta del suceso, no han dicho que lord Douglas resultara con un black eye, cosa vulgarisima impropia de aristócratas: escribieron muy graciosamente que el hijo del marqués había sufrido «la descoloración de un ojo».
La policía llegó algo tarde, como de costumbre, lo mismo en Londres que en Madrid. Pero no tan tarde que dejase de prender al marqués y á lord Douglas. Fueron ambos á la prevención, acompañados de varios amigos y escoltados por una gran muchedumbre. Como no se trataba mas que de un escándalo público, el jefe de la prevención los dejò en libertad, previa fianza, y quedando sujetos á comparecer el día siguiente ante el tribunal de policía.
Lord Douglas escapo por una puerta trasera de la prevención, temiendo manifestaciones hostiles de la muchedumbre. En cambio su padre, el marqués salió muy arrogante por la puerta principal y le obsequiaron con una salva de aplausos.
MIST.
London scandals.
The Marquess of Queensberry continues relentlessly in his campaign against his sons and their great friend. Oscar Wilde.
One of the incidents of this campaign took place last Tuesday coram populo in one of the busiest and most aristocratic streets in London, in Piccadilly.
The Marquis was leaving the court of the Old Bailey to see Taylor, one of Oscar Wilde's main accomplices, coordinated, and was rubbing his hands with joy, when he came face to face with his eldest son, Lord Douglas of Hawick.
Seeing father and son and clinging was the same thing.
Lord Douglas was the first to attack, and with a blow he knocked over the gleaming top hat of the author of his days and nights. The Marquess of Queensberry then remembered his reputation as a pugilist and that he is the author of some rules of boxing, famous throughout the English world, and he dedicated himself to practicing them on his son's head.
Almost instantly, a crowd formed around the two aristocratic wrestlers that enthusiastically applauded the sovereign beating that the old man was inflicting on his offspring with all the rules of the art. This one, although he wanted to return blow for blow, was inferior in skill to his father.
A superb black eye administered by Lord Douglas put an end to the fight. The black eye (black eye) is a blow received in an eye and that in a few hours makes it and its neighborhood pass through all the colors of the prism. The London newspapers, in reporting the event, did not say that Lord Douglas had a black eye, a most vulgar thing unbecoming of aristocrats: they wrote very amusingly that the Marquess's son had suffered "the discoloration of one eye."
The police arrived somewhat late, as usual, the same in London as in Madrid. But not so late that he failed to apprehend the Marquis and Lord Douglas. They both went to the prevention, accompanied by several friends and escorted by a large crowd. Since it was nothing more than a public scandal, the chief of prevention released them, on bail, and they were subject to appearing the following day before the police court.
Lord Douglas escaped through a back door of prevention, fearing hostile demonstrations from the crowd. Instead, his father, the Marquis, strutted out the front door and was treated to a round of applause.
MIST.