A GOOD CHOP.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 220, 15 August 1927, Page 7

A GOOD CHOP.

COOKED BY HIS WIFE

BOTTOMLEY’S DELIGHT.

LONDON, July 30. "That is the first decently cooked meat I’ve tasted for five years,” said Horatio Bottomley, after eating the breakfast chop which his wife had prepared for him in his baronial hall in Horsham, Sussex. Bottomley, a former M.P. and journalist, was released from prison a week earlier than expected. He was serving a term of seven years for fraud, but remissions of sentence for good conduct allowed him to be liberated after five years. He left gaol very secretly and the local reception committee, which had arranged a torchlight procession in his honour, were taken unawares by his early release, and only a solitary farm labourer witnessesd his return. The authorities had warned Bottomley’s wife to expect him and she had a good breakfast ready for him. Ho drank only water, though offered wines and whiskey. T]ie Home Office provided a motor to take Bottomley to his home, where his butler resumed his attentions after a five years’ interval. Bottomley ordered the Union Jack to bo hoisted over his country seat at Sussex, where he is locally looked upon as "tho Squire.” Bottomley sardonically prefaced his remarks to telephone calls by saying. “It’s ex-convict Bottomley speaking.” He professes to be sure that lie will soon receive tho King’s pardon. Walking in his magnificent grounds he seemed thinner, but better for his incarceration.

He has lost 3£ stone in weight,