Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. arrested, caught.

1823		‘Jon Bee’ A Dict. of the Turf, The Ring, The Chase, etc. 69: Downey coves, who know how to pick pockets, or gamble cleverly, or how a man can ‘get off the capital’ (i.e. avoid hanging) or being lagged, bottled, or even stagged.
1898		Kipling ‘Stalky’ in Complete Stalky & Co. (1987) 16: ‘They haven’t taken their names and numbers, anyhow.’ [...] ‘But they’re bottled!’.

2. stuck in one place, halted [note Ware’s suggestion that it refers to the trapping by the US Navy of the Spanish fleet in Santiago in 1898].

1909		J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 44/2: Bottled (People’s, 1898). Arrested, stopped, glued in one place [...] e.g., ‘My wife’s come to town – I’m bottled. Next week, Jane.’.
1915		J. Buchan Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 11: I realized that I was bottled as sure as a pickled herring, and that there was only one way out.