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Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1935, Page 15 (Supplement)

two years’ imprisonment for complicity in fraud. I had given my name in New Zealand to the promoters of a company. They secured the capital and cleared off. I went to prison. When I came out I went to pieces. “I was in three or four different prisons on the other side of the world, but I was never convicted for fraud.” Remarking that he went to the Island of Mitylene because it was probably the only place in Europe where a passport was not required, Willoughby said: “In February of this year I was called to the office of the British Consul, a Greek, who told me that I was wanted by Scotland Yard. “I was arrested and kept in prison for seven and a-half months, and was then taken by the political police to a boat. I was beaten unconscious and thrown into a boat; chained hand and foot. “I must now pay for what I have done in the past, but I submit I have already paid for it. Must I suffer again? “Where can I go? I am an Englishman, and if you send me to prison my nroblem is still unsolved."