OSCAR FINGAL O'FFLAHARTIE WILLS WILDE, ALFRED WATERHOUSE SOMERSET TAYLOR.
Sexual Offences: sodomy.
20th May 1895
Reference Numbert18950520-425
VerdictGuilty > unknown; Guilty > unknown
SentenceImprisonment > 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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