FORGERY OF A WILL.
AN EXTRAVAGANT WOMAN. REFUSAL TO TAKE THE OATH. LONDON. June 18. Escorted by wardresses, Josephine O'Dars, who was sentenced at the Old Bailey on June Ito years' imprisonment, for forging a will, and who was described as the leader of a gang of swindlers, was present in the Bankruptcy Court yesterday for further examination. The prisoner refused to take the oath until her appeal against her conviction had been heard, whereupon the Registrar observed that he could only re-commit her to prison, as there were no means 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 £8503, the assets including a £13,500 interest under the will of Edwin Docker, which the official receiver characterised as "absolutely fictitious." Asked how she came to owe .£6OOO, 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 £IOOO a year from a solicitor in Worcester, although the registrar pointed out that the solicitor had denied any such arrangement.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19676, 30 June 1927, Page 10
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193FORGERY OF A WILL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19676, 30 June 1927, Page 10
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