BOTTOMLEY RELEASED

Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1927, Page 2

BOTTOMLEY RELEASED

(Alisti ali: n 4 t X.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 30. Iloratio Bottondev has been released from gaol, after serving some years.

Bottom lev. with a decade added to Ins life, owing to his healthy prison discipline, talked business with a view to his rdlml,illation, less than five hours after his return to his pretty Sussex home, where he tormerlv resided for thirty venrs.

There is scarcely a better figure, in Kngland.

the villagers of Dicker worship him and they believe implicitly in him and they "ent almost- frantic with iov on his release. They beflagged their single street and hurried around f> K"ther up their hand, the members of uhieh wore working in the fields. Bottondev returned to Dicker in a luxurious limousine ear. His first act. after an affectionate reunion with his wife and daughter, was to change, into white flannels and a blue blazer. Bottomley has always been scrupulously careful of his personal appearance. His business acquaintances called on him in limousines and the representatives of a newspaper syndicate bad a long audience with him. Another caller was his racehorse trainer, and that is interpreted to mean that he hopes to return to the turf.

As tlie day wore on. great crowds gathered outside his home, obviously anxious to congratulate him. Several charabanc parties arrived from neighbouring places, but only those concerned with business were admitted. In the course of the afternoon Bottamley strolled in his grounds to be photographed. He is expected to make his first public appearance on Monday in order to present his own shield to the Dicker Football Club. Bottomley's five years in prison have been full of incident. His articles. dealing with life in gaol, have been smuggled out and published, this resulting in the punishment of the warder who was responsible. At first Bottondev took his confinement badly and he wrote of it. “God the hell I .suffer!” Latterly he became reconciled to his lot. He was at first given work in the Printing Department-. and later he was engaged in repairing the library books. He hits been released on tieket-of-leave, and he must report to the police monthly during the twenty-one months of his still unexpired term.