Mr. Hooley was under examination before the Registrar of the
Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday afternoon. Some of his evidence was of a very sensational kind. Pressed as to what he gave "the chairman of his directors," Lord De la Warr, Mr. Hooley reluctantly admitted, " I think I paid him &50,000 in cash-225,000 for him, and £25,000 for one of the others." There was a cheque for £25,000, and on the counterfoil " Self, Albemarle, and De la Warr." Asked as to this, he said :—" I paid 250,000 for the Board. The Duke of Somerset did not have anything, I know that. Lord De la Warr got the Duke." As to Lord Albemarle, "I think he had £12,500. He ought to have had half, but I think he did not know what the half was." Later Mr. Hooley spoke of the item of " Press calls," which amounted to 476,000; he could, however, only re- member the names of two newspapers to which money had been paid, though a list had been brought him a yard long. That list cannot now be found, and therefore for the present such entries as "balance to square papers" go un- explained.
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