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Show No Legal Meaning to the Term "Blackmail" In the King's Bench division, London, Lon-don, before Justice Ilorridge and a special jury, Horatio Bottomley was further cross-examined in his libel action ac-tion against Hurst & Blackett, publishers, pub-lishers, and Henry James Houston, formerly employed by him. Bottomley complained that he had been accused of blackmail in a book, "The Real Horatio Bottomley," written writ-ten by Houston and published by Uurst & Blackett, who pleaded justification justi-fication and contended that Mr. Bottomley Bot-tomley had signed a document Indemnifying In-demnifying Houston against libel. The foreman of the Jury asked Justice Jus-tice Horridge the legal meaning of blackmail, as some of the jurors did not seem to understand it "It is a well-known English term," replied Justice Horridge, "and I should have thought you would have given your own meaning to it. There is no legal meaning to it." From the Continental Edition of the London Daily Mail. |