Witness.—“Sidney Mavor and Schwabe—I cannot remember any others. I have not been there since I met Wood there.”
Sir Frank.—“With regard to the Savoy Hotel Witnesses?”
Witness.—“Their evidence is quite untrue.”
Sir Frank.—“You deny that the bed-linen was marked in the way described?”
Witness.—“I do not examine bed-linen when I arise. I am not a housemaid.”
Sir Frank.—“Were the stains there, Sir?”
Witness.—“If they were there, they were not caused in the way the Prosecution most filthily suggests.”
Sir Edward Clarke, after a slight “breeze” with the Solicitor-General as to the right to the last word to the jury, then addressed that devoted band of men for the third time, and asked for the acquittal of his client on all the counts.
Sir Frank Lockwood also addressed the jury and the Court then adjoined.
Next day the Solicitor-General, resuming his speech on behalf of the Crown dealt in details with the arguments of Sir E. Clarke in defence of Wilde, and commented in strong terms on observations that he made respecting the lofty situation of Wilde, with his literary accomplishments, for the purpose of influencing the judgment of the young. He said that the jury ought to discard absolutely any such appeal, to apply simply their common-sense to the testimony; and to form a conclusion on the evidence, which he submitted fully established the charges.