Oscar Wilde Case.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10, 2 May 1914, Page 5

Oscar Wilde Case.

AN ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. NEWSPAPERMEN IN COURT. Rv Electric Telegraph-—Copyright] Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received S a.m.) London, May 1.

The King’s Bench has granted a rule of attachment on the editor, printer, and publisher of the London Mail for publishing a paragraph wanting to know if all decent people should not heave a sigh of relief if the Government decided to deport the unspeakable Crosland, and the still more unspeakable Douglas on the grounds that it was comment on proceedings which were pending.

On April 21st a warrant was issued for the arrest of Lord Alfred Douglas in connection with the conspiracy charge against him and Mr T. W. H. Crosland, the author. Lord Douglas was then living at Boulogne. Mr Crosland is charged with conspiring with Lord Alfred Douglas in accusing Robert Baldwin Ross, literary executor of Oscar Wilde, of committing an offence of a disgraceful nature. At the trial of Douglas, the prosecution stated that in revenge for the publication of Mr Ransome’s book about the late Oscar Wilde, Crosland, the author, and Douglas conspired to accuse Mr Robert Baldwin Ross of associating with Charles Garrett, the son of a charwoman. While Garrett was in prison on a charge of importuning, Douglas promised him money if he would accuse Mr Ross.