Editing 11 Mar 1895 - The Echo (London)

<b>[[Case File: Oscar Wilde]]</b>

No 8167, Page 3, Column 1, [https://www.findmypast.com/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004596%2F18950311&page=3&article=049&stringtohighlight=oscar+wilde Link]

<b><center>LORD QUEENSBERRY AND OSCAR WILDE</center></b>
<center>WHY SIR G. LEWIS RETIRED</center>

The Press Association says: - "As considerable misapprehension seems to have arisen by the retirement of Sir Geo. Lewis from the defence of Lord Queensberry in the case of Lord Queensberry against Mr. Oscar Wilde, we are authorized to state that Sir Geo. Lewis did not retire in consequence of any opinion he had formed upon the case, but upon purely personal ground. The advise of Sir Geo. Lewis had at various times been sought in other matters by both Lord Queensberry and Mr. Oscar Wilde, and in these circumstances Sir George determined not to act for either party."