MURDERED IN FRANCE
ENGLISHWOMAN'S DEATH BODY POUND IN SAND DUNES '■' .'''Time's", Cables!'* ' ;."'-. (Eeceived' 21st May,'l p.m.) : ■ . ' , '• PAEIS, 20th May. Mrs. Florence- Wilsqn, an English woman, aged 50, was brutally- murdered on the aand dune? near Le Touquet, where she rented a bungalow. She was strangled and stabbed several times. There was evidence of a great struggle, and the sand was churned up . with numerous •• footmarks. Tho victim's handbag was intact. Her husband ar- • rived :>froin. London: at tho week-end. There, have'been two arrests; one of a doaf mute. The-police believe that there may be some connection with the unsolved Nurse Daniels mystery. The body of May Daniels, an English nurse, who: disappeared in October, 1926, at Boulogne, on an excursion from England, was found six months later on the sandhills in such a stato as to indicate murder. The French police evolved many theories as to the crime, but were never able to find the criminal.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 118, 21 May 1928, Page 11
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156MURDERED IN FRANCE Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 118, 21 May 1928, Page 11
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