At Bow-Street Police Court [in London] on May 9, before Sir John Dickinson, Mir-Anwaruddin, aged 29, of Indian birth, barrister-at-law, of Willoughby-street, Blooms-bury, was brought up in custody charged on remand with having committed perjury in evidence given by him in the trial of an action in the High Court of Justice. Sir Archibald Bodkin conducted the case on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions; Mr. Abdul Majid appeared for the defendant. In opening the case, Sir Archibald Bodkin said that on February 25 and 26 an action was tried in the High Court in which the present defendant claimed damages for libel from Mr. Horatio Bottomley and the printers and publishers of ‘John Bull’.
It was in the defendant’s answers in cross-examinations during the trial that the perjury assigned against him was committed, in denying the authorship of, and the signature to a certain letter alleged to have been addressed by him to his wife. Sir Archibald Bodkin explained that the defendant was married in 1913 to a girl named Ruby Pauline Hudd. The newly married couple went to live at Bedford Park, Chiswick, but after about six weeks, owing to the defendant’s conduct, his wife left him and returned to the house of her parents at Streatham. She obtained a separation order, which, on the appeal of the defendant, was quashed by the High Court.
