VICTORY BONDS CASE.
_ «. BOTTOMLEY TO STAND TRIAL. RHETOEIOAL STATEMENT. Renter LONDON. April 30. Horatio BoUomloy. M.P., has been committed for trial on charges of fraudulently converting to his own use £218,415. He was admitted to bail in sureties totalling £10,000. Bottoraley in a long statement declared that the prosecutor bad exploited a mare's nest, mainly because he chose to keep i alive the account originally opened in the name of the Victory Bond Club. He concluded rhetorically that, realising a new awakening during the tragedy of Armageddon, he cons-crated himself to the service of his country and became the King's chief recruiting agent. He stood by the boys in the tranches. It was inconceivable that a jury should convict him of robbing them and their families. "If I did," ho concluded, may the tortures of the damned be visited on my soul -when I cross the barrier."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18079, 2 May 1922, Page 7
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