ILLEGAL LOTTERY
SWEEPSTAKE ON DERBY BOTTOMLEY TAKES THE BLAME LONDON, July 2. “Horatio Bottomley desires to take the fullest responsibility, and will go into the witness box and say so, if necessary,” said counsel for the defence when Arthur J. Newton pleaded guilty in the Afarlborough Street Police Court to a contravention of the Lottery Acts. The prosecution said Newton published under another name a proposal to sell shares in the Dominions in a private Derby sweepstake, the prizes to be .€IO,OOO, of which the winner would get £5,000. He arranged for an accommodation address, representing himself as acting on behalf of a lacemaker who was instituting a mail order business. The police visited Newton. after which Bottomley wrote to Scotland Yard, saying that the scheme apparently was insufficiently restricted, and consequently illegal and would be abandoned. The defence argued that the Home Secretary had winked at certain lotteries, and Newton thought he had arranged the sweepstake in such a manner as to secure immunity. A fine of £lO with £5 5s costs was imposed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1026, 17 July 1930, Page 14
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