IN HIDING

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1931, Page 6

IN HIDING

SYDNEY SOCIETY WOMAN.

THE POLICE BAFFLED,

SYDNEY, October 8,

It lias been left to a pretty society woman in Sydney—a woman ‘whose life ha® been one of pleasant luxury.— completely to baffle the New South Wales police. She is Mrs Aimee Edols, who lias vanished, rather than answer the questions put by the Bankruptcy Court concerning her assets of £45,000 in Victoria. On August 21, with a lighthearted good-bye, she left her husband after making an airy promise that she would attend the court, and since then she has not bfeen. seen. Warranjts 'hav® (been issued for her arrest, but all efforts to trace her have been without success. On severa|l occasions her busband 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 bean 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 Queensland, always according to rumour. On two occasions her daughter has been informed by a mysterious vn.Vice over the telephone (that her. mother is “happy and comfortable;-” The daughter lias been unable to tell the police from whom the information lias come. In court the daughter insisted that she- had .not seen her mother since the day she disappeared. There are hundreds of people who would recognise Mrs Edols if she appeared in the street® 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 another State. She has always had a. touch of romance in her character, and it is said that she ha® written enough poetry to make a slender volume. She wais 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 women the amount mentioned in the proceedings being £IO,OOO. The litigation toon a dramatic turn when Mrs Edols sequestrated her estate on June 19th. 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, saving each time that she was sworn to ®ecrecv. She was finally given until August 21, but she failed to appear, and a warrant was issued for her arrest.

Tt is regarded as highly probable that Mrs Edols is hiding on' a station property in New South Wales’.- ; She-has-many friends among the big station holders, and it is considered tL-t

would not be difficult for her to remain on some remote property for year® without being discovered by the police. Tt would not come as a surprise, either, if she turned up in New Zealand, for she has often visited the Dominion, and she ha® many friends there. At any rate, when she is found she .should have an, interesti ’g str v. to tell, and she will find that she will have many eager listeners.