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Show No Legal Meaning to the Term "Blackmail" In the King's Bench division, London, Lon-don, before Justice Horrldge and a special jury, Horatio Bottomley was further cross-examined In his libel atS 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 arid published by Hurst & Blackett, who pleaded justification justi-fication and contended that Mr. Bottomley Bot-tomley had sighed a document indemnifying in-demnifying Houston against libel. The foreman of the jury asked Justice Jus-tice -Horrldge 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 Horrldge, "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. |