RELEASE OF MRS. EDOLS
SENTENCE NOT COMPLETE "BANKRUPTCY OFFENCES MYSTERIOUS £50,000 (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Tress Assn.) SYDNEY, Jan. 27. Mr Justice Lukin in the Bankruptcy Court to-day ordered the discharge of Mrs Aimee Belle Edols, after serving nearly four years in gaol for contempt, of court, fraud, and irregularities under the Bankruptcy Act.
Mrs Edols' case created considerable pu'blic 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 entertaining. At a subsequent examination .she declared she had an asset worth £45,000 in Melbourne, but she resolutely declined to give any information .aibout it, whereupon she received a further sentence of two years for contempt of court.
Mr Justice Lukin, in ordering her discharge to-day, 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 be traced or recovered.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18924, 28 January 1936, Page 5
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