CRIMINAL LIBEL.
A BOTTOMLEY PROSECUTION.
.VICTORY BONDS SEQUEL.
(Received 9 a.m.)
LONDON, Oct. 11. A sensational criminal libel suit has opened at the Bow Street Court.
Horatio Bottomley, the editor of "John Bull," is prosecuting Reuben Bigland for selling an allegedly libellous pamphlet in the streets of -London stating that Bottomley had become the possessor of nearly £1,000,000 through his Victory Bond Club.
Sir Ernest Wild, on Bottomley's behalf, denied the statements in the pamphlet and alleged that Bigland had for years been attempting to extort money, culminating in Bigland's entering Bottomley's flat and asking for £60,000. According to Sir Ernest Wild the public subscribed £450,000 to the Victory Bond Club, of which sum £350,000 had been, returned to the>public after the Victory Bonds fell from 85 to 75. Of the amount returned Bottomley found £35,000 out of his own pocket.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 13 October 1921, Page 5
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