DISCHARGE ORDERED

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DISCHARGE ORDERED

MRS. AIMEE EDOLS

NEARLY FOUR YEARS IN GAOL

SYDNEY, January 27,

Mr. Justice Lukin, in the Bankruptcy Court, today ordered the discharge of Mrs. Aimee Belle Edols after she has served nearly four years in gaol for contempt of< court, fraud, and irregularities under the Bankruptcy Act.

The Edols case created considerable public interest in 1933 when she was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for. misrepresentation and fraud. Her examination in bankruptcy disclosed that she had spent large sums on betting-, extravagant living, and entertainment. At a subsequent examination she declared that she had an asset of £45,000 at Melbourne, but she resolutely declined to give any information about it, whereupon she received a further sentence of two years for contempt of court. Mr. Justice Lukin, ordering her discharge today, said that although Mrs. Edols had not purged her contempt, he was of opinion that her further detention would be futile. It was quite possible that a considerable portion of the £50,000 not accounted for had found its way into hands as unscrupulous as her own and therefore could not now be traced or recovered.