No one found who saw Wilde dead
On October 16, 1909, the boxer Jack Johnson met boxer Stanley Ketchel in the Mission Street Arena in Colma, California. Jack Johnson beat Stanley Ketchel by KO in round 12 of 20.
On April 23, 1916, Jack Johnson was in the ring against Arthur Cravan. Johnson KO’d him.
Arthur Cravan described himself as the “poet with the shortest hair in the world , boxer, and nephew of Oscar Wilde”. Indeed, he was a boxer and a poet and the nephew of Oscar Wild. Actually, he was many: Eduoard Archinard, Isaac Cravan, Dorian Hope, Sebastian Hope, B. Holland, Robert Miradique, Marie Lowitska, W. Cooper and James M. Hayes. Various pseudonyms under which he wrote articles in the magazine called “Maintenant”, which he edited from 1912-1915.
In an article in the New York Times, on November 8, 1913, he affirms that his uncle Oscar Wilde is still alive.
Today, it’s Oscar Wilde’s 159th birthday anniversary.
And his coffin in Père Lachaise in Paris, hasn’t been dug up, as asked by Arthur Cravan. Arthur Cravan himself disappeared in 1918 and was later presumed dead.