SOCIETY WOMAN MISSING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 245, 16 October 1931, Page 5

SOCIETY WOMAN MISSING

BAFFLING SYDNEY MYSTERY. AN UNAVAILING SEARCH. SYDNEY, Oct. 8. It has been left to a pretty society woman in Sydney—a woman whose life has been one of pleasant luxury—to completely baffle the New South Wales police. She is Mrs. Aimee Edols, who has vanished rather than answer the questions put by the Bankruptcy Court concerning her assets of £45,000 in Victoria.

On August 21 Mrs. Edols, with a light-hearted good-bye, left her husband after making an airy promise that she would attend the Court, and since then she has not been seen. Warrants have been issued for her arrest, but all efforts to trace her have been without success. On several occasions her husband and her daughter have been •called before the Judge and questioned, but they have been able to satisfy him that they are ignorant of the whereabouts of Mrs. Edols. Many rumours concerning the missing woman have reached the police and all have been investigated, without success. She has been reported in one suburb and then in another; in one State, and then in another. One minute she is on a sheep station and the next on a cattle run in North Queens-, land, always according to rumour. On two occasions her daughter has bceu informed by a mysterious voice over the telephone that her mother is “happy and comfortable.” The daughter has been unable to tell the police from whom the information has come. In the Court the daughter insisted that she had not seen her mother siiree the day she disappeared. There arc hundreds of people who would recognise Mrs. Edols if she appeared in the streets of the city, and, as there have been no reports from the metropolitan area, the police are satisfied that she has either gone to the country or to another State. She has always had a touch of romance in her character, and it is said that she has written enough poetry to make a slender volume. She was famous for the lunches she gave fairly frequently at the leading golf house. Sydney first found special interest in her when equity proceedings were taken against her by another society woman, the amount mentioned in the proceedings being £lO,OOO. The litigation took a dramatic turn when Mrs. Edols sequestrated her estate on June 19 and disclosed in her statement of affairs an asset of £45.000 “from property in Victoria.” She promised to disclose details later, but, although she was frequently called before the registrar in bankruptcy, she declined to do so, saying each time that she was sworn to secrecy. She was finally given until August 21, but she failed to appear and a warrant was issued for her arrest.