Queensbury left a calling card for the playwright stating: 'For Oscar Wilde, posing as a sodomite.' Oscar Wilde, left, had an affair with the Marquis of Queensbury's son Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas, right, which led to the playwright's imprisonment for gross indecency The cigarette case was found in Oscar Wilde's hotel room in Paris after his death in 1900 and was passed by the hotel's owner to his son, eventually making its way into a private collection After his release from Reading Gaol, Wilde was a broken man and went into exile in Paris Wilde decided to sue Queensbury for criminal libel, but was destroyed on the witness stand by the aristocrat's barrister and fellow Dubliner Edward Carson
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