NOT MUCH TO OWE!

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 29 June 1927, Page 7

NOT MUCH TO OWE!

i Woman Swindler's £6000 Debts. BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS. LOXDOX, June l<). Escorted by wardresses, Josephine O"Dare, who was sentenced at the Old Bailey on June 1 to 4A years" imprisonment for forginp a will, and who was described as the leader of a gam: of swindlers, was present in the" Bank ruptcy Court yesterday for further examination. She refused, however, to take the oath until her appeal HgaiiK-t her conviction had been heard, whereupon the Registrar observed that he could only re-commit her to prison, as there were no mean?, of forcing her to answer. The Court could not employ torture. O'Dare claimed to have a surplus of assets, totalling £7430, after the payment of liabilities amounting to £Sso;>. the assets including a £13.500 interest under the will of EdVin Docker, which the Official Receiver characterised a"absolutely fictitious." Asked how she came to owe £0000. O'Dare replied, "It is not much to owe.' She added that she had lived extravagantly, and betted. She adhered to her story that she received £1000 a year from a solicitor in Worcester, although the Registrar pointed out that the solicitor had denied any such arrangement.