BOTTOMLEY’S DEFENCE.
LONDON, April 30. (Received .May 1, at 12.40 pun.) Horatio Bottomlcy, in a lengthy statement, declared that tho prosecution had exploited a mare's nest mainly because he (Botlornley) chose to keep alive the account which was originally opened in the name of the Victory Bond Club. He. concluded rhetoricaliy that, realising the new awakening during the tragedy' of Armageddon, lie had consecrated kirns# to tiro service of his country. 110 becamo tho King’s chief recruiting agent, and stood by. the buys iu the tronchcn. It was inconceivable that a jury should convict him of robbing them and their lamllies. “If so,” he concluded, “ may iho tortures of the damned bo visited on my soul when 1 cross tiro barrier.” —Reuter.
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Evening Star, Issue 17956, 1 May 1922, Page 6
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