Editing 2 Mar 1895 - The Echo (London) (section)

==<center>A Melancholy Drama</center>==
The last act in this most melancholy drama was performed on the 18th of last month, but it only came to the notice of Mr. Oscar Wilde the night before last. Mr. Wilde was a member of the Albemarle Club, where both ladies and gentlemen are admitted. Mrs. Wilde wa salso a member of the club. On the night before last Mr. Oscar Wilde went to this club, and the hall-porter presented him with a card enclose din an envelope, and addressed to "Oscar Wilde, Esq." explaining that a gentleman had called, and requested that the card should be handed to Mr. Oscar Wilde. The porter was astonished at what was written upon the card, and considered it of sufficient importance to add the date and hour when the card was left. He wrote, "4.30, 18th Feb., 1895." The words written upon the card were of such a character as to be unfit for publication. Mr. Humphreys (continuing) said that a more frightful, serious, or abominable libel for one man to publish about another he could not conceive. He now proposed to call as witnesses only the hall - porter of the club and the officer, Detective-Inspector Greet, who executed the warrant. After the evidence he would ask for an adjournment, that the whole matter might be gone into on a future occasion, because he did not propose to rest his case simply upon the question of this libel. He proposed to go into other cases which had occurred before the 18th of February, and after they had been investigated would ask the magistrate to commit the defendant to take his trial. 

Mr. George Lewis asked that before any evidence was taken, the case should be adjourned, so that he might consult with his client and have more time to consider the matter.

Mr. Humphreys said that he only proposed now calling two witnesses whose evidence would be very short, and the whole matter could be gone into next week.