THE BOTTOMLEY CASE
ACCUSED DEFENDS HIMSELF RHETORICAL STATEMENT. ♦ Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, April 30. Horatio Bottomley, in a lengthy statement, declared that the prosecution had exploited a mare’s nest mainly because he (Bottomley) chose to keep alive the account which, was originally opened in the name of the Victory Bond Club. He concluded rhetorically that, realising the new awakening during the tragedy of Armageddon, he had consecrated himself to the service of his country, xie became .the King’s chief ■ recruiting, agent, and stood by the boy# in the trenches. It . was inconceivable that a jury should convict him of robbing them and their families.. “If so,” he concluded, “may the tortures "of the damned be visited on my soul when I icroes the barrier.”—Reuter,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18543, 2 May 1922, Page 5
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124THE BOTTOMLEY CASE Otago Daily Times, Issue 18543, 2 May 1922, Page 5
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