THE YORKSHIRE EVENING POST

Leeds, Yorkshire, England

3 August 1934

(page 7)

ALEISTER CROWLEY.

To Appeal Against Old Bailey Conviction.

Mr. Edward Alexander Crowley (Aleister Crowley, the author) said to-day he had signed notice of appeal against his Old Bailey conviction. He was found guilty of receiving four original letters and a copy of a letter alleged to have been stolen from Mrs. Betty Sedgwick, an artists’ model, professionally known as "Betty May.”

The letters were stated to have produced by Mr. Crowley’s counsel in the High Court during an action for damages for alleged libel brought by Mr. Crowley against a firm of publishers respecting a passage in a book.

Mr. Crowley was bound over for two years and ordered to pay a sum not exceeding 50 guineas towards the cost of the prosecution.