THE LIVERPOOL POST AND MERCURY

Liverpool, Lancashire, England

26 July 1934

(page 11)

ALEISTER CROWLEY FOUND GUILTY

BOUND OVER FOR TWO YEARS

Edward Alexander Crowley, aged 58, the author who writes under the name of Aleister Crowley, was found guilty at the Old Bailey yesterday 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, of South Hill Park-gardens, Hampstead, London.

Mr. Melford Stevenson (prosecuting) stated on Tuesday that the letters disappeared from Mrs. Sedgwick’s attaché case and were later produced during the hearing of a libel action in the High Court in which Crowley was the plaintiff.

Judge Whiteley told Crowley that he would be bound over for two years to be of good behaviour. “If anything of this kind happens again,” he added, “you will be brought to this court and sentenced to six months for this offence.”

He ordered Crowley to pay a sum not exceeding fifty guineas towards the costs of the prosecution.