LOST FORTUNE.
WOMAN SPECULATOR’S MANIA FOR GAMBLING.
A remarkable story of how Miss Mabel Eden Wilson, of Knowles House, Esplanade Gardens, Scarborough, had gone through a fortune was told at Scarborough Bankruptcy Court. The debtor admitted that her assets were £2, and that there was a deficiency of £9OO. On the death of her mother in 1896 she inherited £5,000, and five years earlier, on the death of a brother, she received a legacy which she thought, ivas £12,000 or £14,000. Answering further questions the debtor said the money she received was in a. variety of stocks and shares. She sold out, and in 1906 commenced a marginal account with brokers. In the following year she had an advei se balance of nearly £4OO. She had gone on speculating since 1907, but had no record of her speculations. She had lost money m Continental lotteries, and admitted a mania foi gambling. She had lost £6OOO that wav Lately she had resorted to mon-ey-lenders, but said she did not know she had borrowed at 200 per cent, lhe examination was adjourned. #
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3320, 12 September 1911, Page 5
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180LOST FORTUNE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3320, 12 September 1911, Page 5
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