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...Maidstone Jail, Kentshire, there strode last week the irrepressible Horatio Bottomley, founder of that broadly humorous weekly John Bull, which was bought more largely by British soldiers in France than any other magazine...
...that if Horatio Bottomley was released on the date previously announced he would be met at the prison door by a huge admiring crowd of onetime soldiers, race-track folk, stage people and vague legions of "the lower classes." To prevent this scandal, the prisoner was hustled out of jail and despatched to his Sussex home in a discreet motor...
Sussex Welcome. Mrs. Bottomley and numerous faithful servants greeted "the master" at his home in Dicker, Sussex while an old gardener hobbled down to tell the delighted villagers that their squire-was out of jail. " 'E's a ticket o'-leave-man, still, though," said the gardener sadly, "the Marster, on account 'e is out o' jail two years early, 'as to put in 'is ticket to them? every month!" Soon the villagers hung out flags and other tokens to honor open-handed Squire Bottomley...
Projects. When gentlemen of the press arrived they were not so much received as feted. "I have written a poem," said their host impressively, "a poem in which I have described the hideous things in prison life. I have called this poem "The Ballad of Maidstone Jail," and it will soon be published...
...founding of a newspaper, "for which my backers have ready £100,000, gentlemen." 3) publication (which subsequently took place last week in the London Dispatch) of an entire front-page story of his wrongs, plus an entire back page of pictures showing him plump before he went to jail and cadaverous today...