WIDOW'S LAST CAMBLE

Evening Star, Issue 19776, 28 January 1928, Page 13

WIDOW'S LAST CAMBLE

JEWELS AND FURS WORTH £37,000. Gambling losses amounting to £6OOO were one of the onuses given for her appearance) in the London Bankruptcy Court, recently, by Mrs. Amelia Craven, a widow of St, George’s Sqna're, Belgravia, S.W. Mrs. Ciaven informed the olticii! »c----ceivcr that since 1922 she hade beer, in the liable of visiting uie ca-mos ,4 Monte Carlo, Ostond, and'othcr Continental resorts. She lost heavily but continued gambling in the hope of recouping her losses, and at the last made a desperate plunge, but with disastrous results. Her husband died in 1909 and she had lived since on the proceeds of the sale of valuable jewellery and furs which at one time were insured for £37,000. She estimated her household and personal expenses at £11,120 since July, 1922. Other causes of her failure were interest charges and loss on the realisation of her furs and jewellery. At the date of her failure the whole of her property had been disposed of except some land in Nairobi, which had since been realised by her trustee. The examination was closed, the liabilities being £3106 and the assets £SSS.