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Fear too much madness of kissing.
Taylor guilty.
Wilde's turn to-morrow. QUEENSBERRY. In examination before the magistrate, Mr.Hannay, it was stated that Lord Queensberry had been sending similar letters to Lady Douglas "full of the most disgusting charges against Lord Douglas, his wife, and Lord Queensberry's divorced wife and her family." But Mr.Hannay thought all this provocation was of no importance and bound over both father and son to keep the peace--an indefensible decision, a decision only to be explained by the sympathy everywhere shown to Queensberry because of his victory over Wilde, otherwise surely any honest magistrate would have condemned the father who sent obscene letters to his son's wife--a lady above reproach.
These vile letters and the magistrate's bias, seemed to me to add the final touch of the grotesque to the horrible vileness of the trial.
It was all worthy of the seventh circle of Dante, but Dante had never imagined such a father and such judges! * * * * * Next morning Oscar Wilde was again put in the dock.
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