WOMAN'S FRAUDS
TERM OF PROBATION i
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
HAMILTON, This Day. "You must realise that tho Bankruptcy Act exists not only to protect people who are unfortunate in business but also to protect tho commercial community against fraud," said Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Magistrate 's Court to-day, in admitting Alma Olga Bodel Wilson Terrill, aged 47, to three years' probation for failiug as a bankrupt to disclose all her property to the Official Assignee. The Magistrate said that the accused for many years had travelled the country perpetrating frauds. He referred to mythical mining claims and an art union for distressed miners on the West Coast by which she had defrauded people. Ho took into account the fact that the accused was past middle life and that she had not previously been before the Court. Probation was conditional on Terrill living with her husband.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1932, Page 9
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147WOMAN'S FRAUDS Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1932, Page 9
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