THE LIVERPOOL POST AND MERCURY

Liverpool, Lancashire, England

27 June 1934

(page 10)

MR. ALEISTER CROWLEY

The recent “Black Magic” libel action, in which Mr. Aleister Crowley, the author, was the plaintiff, was mentioned in the King’s Bench yesterday, when Mr. A. Reade applied to Mr. Justice Swift for certain papers in the custody of the court to be handed over to the prosecution in a case now before the magistrate at Marylebone.

Counsel explained that Mr. Crowley had been arrested and charged with receiving the papers referred to, and Mr. Justice Swift ordered that they should be handed over to the solicitor instructing counsel, on his undertaking to return them to the court.