CONTEMPT OF COURT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 28 January 1936, Page 5

CONTEMPT OF COURT

RELEASE FROM PRISON OF MRS AIMEE EDOLS

(United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

SYDNEY, 27th January. Mr Justice Lukin, in the Bankruptcy Court, to-day ordered the discharge of Mrs Aimee "Belle Edols after she has served nearly four years in jail tci contempt of court, fraud and irregularities* under the Bankruptcy Act. The Edols case coated considerable public interest in 1*133 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 w.-nved a further sentence of two years for contempt ot court. , . . .. Mr Justice Lukin, ordering her dis charge to-day. said that although Mrs Edols had not pinged her contempt, lie was of ouini.m that her further, detention would he futile. It was quite possible that a considerable portion ot the £SO,OGU i ot accounted for had Sound its way into hands, as unscrupulous as her own and therefore could not ornv be traced or recovered.