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22': Shocking miss from Kane, but he is offside anyway! Croatia make a mistake at the back, and Sterling pounces on it. He passes it to Kane, who missed the target, almost knowingly he was offside.

The Bottomley Case BENCH DISCHARGE DEFENDANTS Mr. Bottomley on Friday resumed his speech for the defence in the case heard at the London Guildhall in which he a.nd three other defendants were charged with conspi- racy. He had been wondering, he said, where the prosecution would have been if ho had net given them permission to investigate hia accounts at his brokers. Without those accounts they could not have traced the alleged duplications. Regarding stock opera- tions, nearly all the witnesses had not only never complained of being defrauded, but they did not even say that they had when in the box. It was a remarkable fact, Mr. Eottomley continued, that when hostilities between the Official Receiver's department and the company commenced one of the charges was, not that they had committed a iraad by palming off worthless paper on sub- scribers, but fraud upon the company itself in depleting its valuable assets by giving subscribers shares at ten shillings which had cost the company a sovereign. Even before they gave subscribers those cash shares they wanted to see it they oould carry through it sale then contemplated, as they were nego- tiating with a company whose shares stood at. a big premium to ta^e them over. There was a draft. agreement of this transaction or; the minutes, and yet this had not been produced. Mr. Bottomley dealt with other matters, among them the alleged destruction of books-, and asked why if statements were fraudulent ether directors were not there with him. Hie Magiseratc told Mr. Bottomley that he held there was no specific evidence as to the ,?d4once as to the destruction of books. After Mr. Bottomley had completed his speech the magistrate retired to his room, and. after about ten minutes' absence, returned to court and announced that he had come to the conclusion that in this case no jury would convict. He, therefore, declined to commit the defendants, and the summonses against Mr. Bottomley and his co-defendants would be dismissed. The decision was received with loud cheer- ing in court. BOTTOMLEY DEFENCE COST 6,000. Mr. Bottomiey, iiiterview-ed after his dis- charge, said he had expected to be free by Tuesday, but was unprepared that morning for so dramatic and sudden a termination of the case. The defence had cost him 6,000. He hoped to resume his Parliamentary duties on Friday next.