IN HIDING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 84, 30 November 1931, Page 2

IN HIDING

DISAPPEARANCE OF SYDNEY SOCIETY WOMAN UNSOLVED. POLICE ARE BAFFLED. SYDNEY, 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-xquestions put by the" Bankruptcy Co'urt concerning her assets of £45,000 in "Vi'ctoria. 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 riot 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 daiighters 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 i'n one suburb, and then in another. One minute she is on a sheep station, and the next on a cattle ruh'in North • Queensland, always according to ru- [ mour. On two occasions her daughter has been informed by a mysteroius voice over the telephone that her mother is "happy and comfortabie." The daughter has been unable to tell the police from whom the information has come. In Court the daughter insisted that she had not seen her mother since the day she disappeared. Would be Recognised There are hundreds of people who woiild 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 ro- ? mance ih her character, and it is said that she has written enou'gh ! poetry to make a slender coiume. She was famous for the lunches she gave fairly frequently at the leading golf house. Sydney Ijirst found special iriterest in her when equity proceedings were taken against her by another society woman, the amount mentioned in the proceedings being about £10,000. The litigation took a dramatie turn when Mrs. Edols sequestrated her estate on June 1 9, and disclosed in her statement of affairs an asset of £45,000 "from property in Yictoria." She promised to disclose details later, but alfhough 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 untii August 21, but she failed to appear, and a warrant was issued for her arrest. it is regarded as highly probable that Mrs. Edols is hiding on a station property in New South Wales. She has many xfiends among the big stationholders, and it is considered that it would not be difficult for her to remain on some remote property for years, wifhout being discovered by the police. It would not come as a surprise, either, if she turned up in New Zealand, for she has often visited the Dcminion, and she has many friends there. At any rate, when she is found, she shouli have an interesting story to tell, and she will find that she will have many eager listeners.