BOTTOMLEY LIBEL ACTION.
EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENTS. (Per Press Association, Copyright.) LONDON, October .27. • Mr Horatio Bpttomley's two and ahalf days' erosE-<£xamination has concluded. He had- several encounters with Sir Henry Biron, the Magistrate, whom Bottomley .accused of intolerable bias. Sir Henry Biron asked Bottomley to answer his questions, and .not to make a speech. Mr Elias, managing director of Odham's Press, and a friend of Bottomley, gave evidence that he admitted .discussing with the, defendant, Mr Reuben "Bigland, the question of withdrawing the charges, and also handed liigdand a note containing four questions which were to be put to Bottomley m cross-examina-tion. Elias said he had previously seen Botomley and asked him to accept an apology. Bottomley himself wrote the questions on the paper.. Elias denied he was acting as 80**0111103^:8 agent m (this matter.
.Sir Henry Biron commented that tfhis evidence was of a wery textraor«3.inary character, and required a great deal of investigation.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLII, Issue 9372, 29 October 1921, Page 5
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154BOTTOMLEY LIBEL ACTION. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLII, Issue 9372, 29 October 1921, Page 5
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