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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10827, 26 March 1932, Page 3

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Mrs Edols Case. £45,000 ASSETS STORY. Sydney, March 11. Mrs Aimee Belle Edols. in the care of a wardress, was brought to-day from Long Bay—where she has been for nearly a fortnight since her arrest for contempt of court —to face the Registrar in Bankruptcy (Mr Norman C. Lockhart). She would still give no information about, her £45,000 assets in Victoria, and was remitted to her former custody.

Showing the effect of long strain, Airs Edois appeared somewhat nervous to-day as the Official Receiver rose to question her. Her hubsand sat near her, and the court was crewded. Mr Lloyd: You have not yet completed your statement of affairs. Mrs Edols: I am not in a position to do so.

Mr Lloyd: What is the reason for your studied siuhhorness? —1 have no reason to he obdurate or stubborn. Do you still refuse to answer about this £45,000 asset in Victoria?—l do not refuse to answer, but at present I am not in a position to say. Isn’t this £45,000 assets a myth? —I say that these £45,000 assets are not a. myth. Gaol Indefinitely.

Mr Lloyd: Don’t you realise that your conduct in not supplying this material information is most contemptuous?—l realise that, quite.

Have your drawn any of this £45,000 to maintain yourself during your disappearance?—No; I did not. Are you not aware that your contemptuous conduct is liable to keep you in prison fr an indefinite period?

Mrs Edols (calmly): Yes. Mrs Edols said she had had certain monetary advances from a Mrs Styles, but she could not say the exact amount.

Mr Lloyd; You received about £3OO from Mrs Styles some time before you were arrested?—Yes, hut I can’t say what I did with it. Didn’t you receive £9OO from her? —I may have; I cannot say the exact amount.

Wasn’t (his lady the widow of one of the Greycliffe disaster victims?— Yes.

Mrs Edols said that when she had received the £3OO from Mrs Styles, she hadn’t communicated the fact to her husband. Registrar’s Warning. Mr Lloyd: You ha.ve said that on several occasions, I cannot accept this answer. You are merely trifling with the Court. What is the real reason that you won’t let the Court know about these Victorian assets? Mrs Edols: I have, Mr Lloyd, every intention of doing so, but not just at present. 1 want a little more time, say another week. Mr Lloyd (indignantly): You are wilfully defying the court, and I do not think that you intend to give the information.

The Registrar (sternly); Mrs Edols you are taking up a position of defiance to this Court. You have again refused to answer, and I shall report your conduct and your refusal to the Bankruptcy Judge. Mrs Edols (with a slight toss of the head and a shrug of the shoulders): I understand.