THE DAILY RECORD AND MAIL

Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

26 July 1934

(page 3)

POET BOUND OVER

Aleister Crowley and

Betty May’s Letters

Edward Alexander Crowley (58), who described himself as an author and a poet, was found guilty at the Old Bailey, London, yesterday, on the charge of receiving four original letters and one copy, said to have been stolen from Mrs. Betty Sedgwick, professionally known as “Betty May” an artist’s model.

Crowley was bound over and ordered to pay an amount not exceeding 50 guineas towards the costs of the prosecution.

It had been alleged that the letters disappeared from Mrs. Sedgwick’s attaché case and were later produced during the hearing of a libel action in which Crowley was the plaintiff.

The letters referred to the payment of certain expenses by a firm of solicitors to Mrs. Sedgwick, who was a witness in the action.