The Ballad of Reading Gaol The Ballad of Reading Gaol The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol () on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. During his imprisonment, on Tuesday, 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen, earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was
Trial Bay Gaol of Public Works. Trial Bay Gaol Trial Bay Gaol is a heritage-listed former gaol at Cardwell Street, Arakoon, Kempsey Shire, New South Wales, Australia. The property is owned by the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 14 May 2010. Prior to European settlement in Australia the land now known as Arakoon State Conservation Area where Trial Bay Gaol is located was associated with the Dunghutti people who lived and moved through the Macleay Valley following the seasonal supply of food resources. The Macleay River, South West