THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH

Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland

4 August 1934

(page 3)

ALEISTER CROWLEY CASE.

APPEAL AGAINST CONVICTION.

Mr. Edward Alexander Crowley (Aleister Crowley), the author, yesterday informed a reporter that he had signed notice of appeal against his Old Bailey conviction.

Mr. Crowley was found guilty of receiving four original letters, and one copy of a letter, alleged to have been stolen from Mrs. Betty Sedgwick, an artist’s model, professionally known as “Betty May.” The letters were stated to have been 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.

Judge Whitely, K.C., bound Mr. Crowley over two years, and ordered him to pay a sum not exceeding 50 guineas towards the cost of prosecution.