SHARE GAMBLING IN LONDON.
THE BOTTOMLEY-HOOLEY CASES. Press Association.—Copyright. LONDON, Saturday. The evidence in the ■worthless shares case showed that Master (met Bottomley through the latter writing that he "wished to help those who had lost their ■money in previous Bottomley clcroupanies. Master lost £90,000 in share dealings with E. T. Hboley and Bottomley in connection with investments in the "John Bull" Investment and Trust Agency, Carter's Deep Leads, and other companies. Practically all the shares are worthless. Hooley compromised Mrs. Curtis' action. Bottomley will not go into the witness box. Plaintiff's counsel stated that Bottomley sucked 'the (poor, old, deaf and infirm dry in. five minutes. Hooley and Bottomley were conspirators together and shared the plunder. LONDON, Sunday. Before the King's Bench, Mrs Eleanor Curtis, executrix of her father, the late' R. Master, a retired Cvil Servant, sued Horation Bottomley, M.P., f0r'£57,835, which she alleged that he had obtained by selling deceased worthless shares: The defendant denied misrepresentation. A verdict was given for plaintiff for' £50,000 damages. A stay of execution was granted on condition that the full amount was paid into Court within a week.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 3 July 1911, Page 5
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187SHARE GAMBLING IN LONDON. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 3 July 1911, Page 5
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