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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20327, 28 January 1936, Page 5

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FAMOUS FRAUD CASE RECALLED SENTENCES FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received January 27, 8 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 27. Mr Justice Lukin, in the Bankrupcty Court, 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. 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 entertaining. At a subsequent examination, she declared that she had an asset of £45,000 in 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 in ordering her discharge to-day said that although Mrs Edols had not purged her contempt, he was of the 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 the hands as unscrupulous as her own, and therefore could not now be traced or recovered.