SHOCKING MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1928, Page 7

SHOCKING MURDER.

Fate Of Englishwoman In France. DEAF-MUTE ARRESTED. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.! PARIS, May 21. A shocking case of murder, the victim of which was Mrs. Florence Wilson, an Englishwoman, aged 50, occurred on the sand dunes near Le Bourget, the Paris aerodrome, where she had rented a bungalow. She was strangled and stabbed several times. There was evidence of a great struggle. The sand was churned up and there were numerous footmarl's. The woman's handbag was found intact. Her husband had arrived from London at the week-end. Two persons were arrested, one of whom is a deaf-mute.

There were 14 knife wounds in Mrs. Wilson's neck, breast and back, any one of which would have been , fatal. There was money in her handbag, so that robbery was not the motive of the deed.

The victim had been playing golf and had elected to walk home alone. When she did not arrive at the bungalow her husband informed the police, whose dogs eventually found the body in some brushwood. A man's torn coat, covered with blood, was found near the place where the dfeaf-mute, Vanibre, works.

By signs Vambre denied the murder. He had previously been charged with assaults on women and had been detained at a mental institution for degenerates.

A FRESH CLUE. HUNT FOR STRANGE MAN. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) j PARIS, May 21. As the outcome of an important statement obtained from a resident, who says he saw a man running into the bushes at the scene of the murder of the Englishwoman, Mrs. Florence Wilson, on the sand dunes near Le Bourget, the police are now searching for an Englishman of whom they have a detailed description. It is believed that the deaf-mute, Yendre, has established his innocence and he may be released to-day. Mr. Wilson, the murdered woman's husband, was formerly managing director of an iron and steel company in Cumberland. Mrs. Wilson, before her marriage, lived in Wiltshire, and wan a well-known West Cumberland huntswoman.

POLICE THEORY. WORK OF AN ENEMY. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) PARIS, May 21. The Le Touquet police are now of opinion that the murder of Mrs. Wilson may not be a mere brutal crime but the climax of an encounter with a personal enemy. They are searching for a man with a grey raincoat, who was seen near brushwood at the time of the lurder.