THE LATE OSCAR WILDE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 87, 19 April 1913, Page 6

THE LATE OSCAR WILDE.

THE CAUSE OF HIS DOWNFALL. [By Electric Telegraph —Copyright] [United Press Association. j London, April 18. Ransome’s book suggested that, after his imprisonment, his wife provided £l5O per annum for Wilde to enable him to start fresh under the name of Sebastian Melmoth. Douglas, however, took Walde to Naples, where they shared a life of momentary magnificence. Douglas was put under searching cross-examination, particularly with reference to articles in Truth in 1895 and his own poems. During crOss-examinatioh, the defence produced unpublished sections of “Do PrOfundis,” of which the manuscript is in the British Museum. These included a letter to Douglas, written by Wilde during his imprisonment, the reading of which occupied an hour and a half. The remarkable literary stylo was a reflection of Wilde’s mood's after his downfall. Wilde bitterly accused Douglas of being the cause of his ruin, and said that he made play-writing and intellectual work impossible.