OSCAR FINGAL O'FFLAHARTIE WILLS WILDE, ALFRED WATERHOUSE SOMERSET TAYLOR, Sexual Offences > sodomy, 20th May 1895.

Reference Number: t18950520-425
Offence: Sexual Offences > sodomy
Verdict: Guilty > no_subcategory; Guilty > no_subcategory
Punishment: Imprisonment > hard labour
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425. OSCAR FINGAL O'FFLAHARTIE WILLS WILDE (40) and ALFRED WATERHOUSE SOMERSET TAYLOR (33) were indicted for unlawfully committing acts of gross indecency with certain male persons.

THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL (SIR FRANK LOCKWOOD, Q.C.), with MESSRS. C. F.

GILL and HORACE AVORY Prosecuted; SIR EDWARD CLARKE, Q.C.,

with MESSRS. CHARLES MATHEWS and TRAVERS HUMPHREYS, appeared for Wilde; MR. J.P. GRAIN for Taylor.

Upon the joint application of SIR EDWARD CLARKE and MR. GRAIN, the defendants were tried separately.

TAYLOR thereupon was first tried; he was

FOUND GUILTY on certain counts.

WILDE was then put on his trial, and also being FOUND GUILTY, both the defendants were sentenced to Two Years' Hard Labour.


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