THE COTTON "KING "
HOUNDED OUT OF MANCHESTER
ESCAPES BACK TO AMERICA
[PKESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received March 13, 5 p.m.) LONDON, March 12. James Patten, the American speculator, was subjected to a hostile demonstration in the Manchester Royal Exchange. Members elbowed him and vshook their fists in his face, and compelled the cotton "^king" to take refuge in a neighbouring office. With the assistance of a strong police guard he escaped by the fire exit and immediately entrained for Liverpool, where he was sympathetically received.
Patten will sail for America again to-day.
CABjLE NEWS.
fBT ILEOIBIO TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT.]
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 58, 14 March 1910, Page 5
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96THE COTTON "KING " Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 58, 14 March 1910, Page 5
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