The news that those two kmdrert financial geniuses,- Horatio Bottomley and Bevan, are now in Maidstone Gaol together, and associated in their prison tasks, almost moves the City to sentimental tears (writes the London respondent of the Dunedm "Star''). 1 said "almost'M Apparently preferential treatment is accorded to "distinguished" convicts, because Messrs Bottomley and Bevan are engaged in.runnine the prison magazine, christened the "Star of Hope," after the famous Sing Sing Journal in America's penal settlement. In this light and agreeable work, according to report, Bevan, and not Bottomley, is the editor, the last-named being merely proof reader. This may be beoauße Bottomley is confined to the hospital word, while Beyan is reported ta be in quite good health. But it takes a really cynical City stockbroker thoroughly to do justice to the spectacle of Horatio Bottomley reading the proofs of Sevan's editorial moralisings in the "Star of Hope."
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17922, 16 November 1923, Page 2
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