The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-04-06

LONDON, April 5.--Thc suit OF Oscar
Wilde against tho marquis OF Queens
berry camo to sudden and unexpected
termination to-day shortly after the
third days proceedings wore begun in
tho Old Bailey before Justice Collins.
Sir Edward Clarke, leading counsel
for the plaintiff, asked permission on be.
half OF his cliont to withdraw the suit
and submit to verdict OF not guilty in
regard to tho offensive words written
by tho marquis OF Queensberry on tho
card left by the marquis at the Albe.
marie Club for Wilde on February IS,
and which card formed tho outward
basis OF tho suit The jury, under in.
strucsions from Justice Collins, returned
verdict OF not guilty. coupled with the
statement that the justification set up
MS defense by the marquis OF Queens-
berry was true in substance and in fact
and that the statement complained OF
was publiahe d for the public good.
Tho verdict was received with loud
applause, which was not checked by tho
presiding justice, and the marquis Of
Queensberry was discharged from GUS
tody, aud left the court triumphant,
smiling and surrounded By his friends.
Shortly afterwards it was announce d
that a warrant for the arrest OF Oscar
Wilde was to be applied for, all the
papers in the case having been SUBJ
mitted to tho public prosecutor.
The name OF Oscar Wilde has been
withdrawn from the play bills and ad-
vertisements OF the two theatres, the
St James and the Haymarkes, where
two OF his plays are running. Wilde
had merely called at the Cadogan hotel
with couple OF friends. when at $3.50
o'clock detective walked into the office
and aaked for him. The officer was
told that Wilde was not staying there,
but the detective was not TO be put of
with any such technical explanation,
aud insisted that, whether Wilde was
staying there or not, the man he
wanted to see was in the hotel.
He Was thereupon shown a room
and upon entering found Wilde sit
ting down. The officer at once told
Wilde that he was under arrest and
bade him prepare to accompany him.
Wilde said nothing. but Immediately
went with the detective, who took him
to Scotland yard, where tho warrant was
read. The prisoner remained client
throughout the proceedings. He was
then taken to Bow street. He was then
placed in the dock in the police station.
Here he stood with his hands in his
pockets wuils the charge sgainat him
was being taken. A police inspector
then read the charge aloud and asked
Wilde if he had anything to say, adding
tho usual warning that anything ho
said might be used against him. The
prisoner remained apparently indifer-
ent and made no reply.
He was then searched, after which he
was locked in a cell. Shortly after no
had been locked up, ono OF his friends
arrived in carriage at the station with
small Gladstone bag containing a
change OF clothing aud other necessa-
ries, but the police refused to permit
him to leave it. Later Lord Alfred
Douglass went to tho police station and
inquired whether Wilde could be ad.
mitted to bail The police inspector
explained that Wilde had been srreated
for criminal odonse, which did not al. I,
low Of bail being accepted until he had
been arraigned in court.
Tomorrow he will bo arraisued in
court on charge involving penal OF
fense.
The charge against tho famous ses-
thctic, poet novelist playwright and
society lion. Oscar Wilde, grows directly
out Of the libel case he brought against
the marquis of Queeusberry, the details
OF which have been unprintable, and is
to the effect that he has been proven
guilty OF gross immoralities