THE LATE OSCAR WILDE.
EVIDENCE IN A LIBEL CASE
(Received 11.20 a.m.)
London, April 17
Lord Alfred Douglas has commenced an action for libel against Arthur Ransome and the Times Book Club in connection with Ransome’s hook on Oscar Wilde, alleging that Douglas was responsible for Wilde’s public disgrace and penniless abandonment. Douglas testified that he paid three months’ rent at Naples for a villa for Wilde, and gave him large monetary help at various periods. He also paid Wilde’s funeral expenses. The evidence produced astounding revelations concerning \\ ilde s and Douglas’s career.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 86, 18 April 1913, Page 6
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93THE LATE OSCAR WILDE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 86, 18 April 1913, Page 6
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