Date: May 31 1895

The Limerick Reporter & Tipperary Vindicator, 31 May 1895
THE TRIAL OF OSCAR WILDE.
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THE SENTENCE.
The trial of Oscar Wilde terminated on Saturday evening in a verdict of guilty on all the counts, and he was sentenced along with Taylor, previously convicted, to two years' imprisonment with hard labour. The jury expressed surprise that a warrant had not up to the present been issued for the arrest of Lord Alfred Douglas, and the learned judge expressed his confidence that his title would not be permitted to save him from justice.
As to the horrid character of Wilde's crime, it is quite superfluous to add anything to what Judge Wills, who held the scales of justice with scrupulous fairness, said in passing sentence. The remarkable thing is to discover now that the fact that Oscar Wilde was a centre of festering corruption seems to have been perfectly well known in the artistic and theatrical circles in which he moved. But it is satisfactory anyway to feel that even the most brazen effrontery in the pursuit of such abominations does not bring immunity from punishment —a lesson that may be taken to heart perhaps with advantage by the other more or less known individuals who are now also freely spoken of as being of the same loathsome coterie. It is even said that the police could lay their hands on fifty men well known in society who are equally guilty with him, and whose connections with this odious scandal has been notorious for years.

LIMERICK TRINITY QUARTER
SESSIONS.
The Grand Jury will be sworn at 12 o'clock noon, on Tuesday, 4th June, after which the following applications for certificates to obtain Excise Licenses will be heard :—Thomas Bolster, 1, Bowman-street, Transfer ; Bridget Conway, 3, Bridge-st, do ; Michael T Conway, 32, Sand Mall, do ; Bridget Mullins, 19 Upper Denmark-street, do.
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THE INNISCARRA OUTRAGE.
Cork, Monday.
Private Fisk, 10th Hussars, was arrested this morning at Newbridge, charged with being connected on the outrage in the graveyard at Inniscarra, and arrived in the city to-night under a police escort. The squadron to which the prisoner was attached have been marching en route for some days past from Ballincollig.