Oscar Wilde is Prosecuted on Charges of 'Gross Indecency'

His boot on Wilde's neck, Queensberry prepared to deliver the coup de grace. He told his solicitor to send the notes from the libel trial and all of the evidence his private detectives had turned up about Wilde's interest in boy prostitutes to Scotland Yard. This move left authorities with no choice but to arrest Wilde and charge him with gross indecency. Next Queensberry sent word to Wilde alerting him to what he had done. He ended the note with a threat. "I will not prevent your flight, but if you take my son with you, I will shoot you like a dog," Queensberry wrote.

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