New-York Tribune - Thursday, May 23, 1895
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QUEENSBERRY STRUCK HIS SON.
ALSO CHALLENGED HIM TO FIGHT FOR £10,000 -
WILDE'S SECOND TRIAL BEGUN.
London, May 22. - The report that the Marquis of Queensberry and his son, Lord Alfred Douglas, were engaged in a fight in Piccadilly yesterday was erroneous in one respect. It was the Marquis’s elder son, Lord Douglas of Hawick, who was his antagonist. Both were arraigned in the Marlborough Street Police Court this morning and placed in the dock together to answer a charge of disorderly conduct and fighting in the street. The Marquis said that his son was the aggressor, having first assaulted him, and that he only struck back in self-defence. He admitted that he had offered to fight Lord Douglas of Hawick anywhere or at anytime for £10,000. Lord Douglas showed a black eye as the result of his encounter with his father, but the latter did not show a mark. Both the Marquis and his son were put under bonds of £500 each to keep the peace for six months. The crowd cheered the Marquis as he drove away in a cab, and hissed and hooted Lord Douglas. The Marquis went directly to the Old Bailey Court, where he was an attentive listener at the trial of Oscar Wilde.
The second trial of Wilde began in the Central Criminal Court this morning. Wilde looked pale and haggard as he entered the dock, evidently being greatly affected by the result of the trial of Taylor yesterday. Sir Frank Lockwood, Q. C., M. P., conducted the prosecution. The trial was not finished. Wilde was released overnight on bail.