LE TOUQUET MURDER

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 198, 23 May 1928, Page 10

LE TOUQUET MURDER

SEARCH FOR SUSPECT

(Australian Press Assn.—United Service.)

Paris, May 21.

As the outcome of an important statement obtained from a resident who says that be saw a man running into the bushes at the scene of the murder of Mrs. Wilson, near Le Touquet, the police are searching for an Englishman of whom there is a detailed description. It is believed, that Vandre has established his innocence and may be released to-day.

Mr. Wilson was formerly managing director of an iron and steel company in Cumberland. Mrs. Wilson, before marriage, lived in Wiltshire,'and was well known in West Cumberland as a huntswomau. Later.

The 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 in a grey raincoat seen near .the brushwood at the.time of tlie murder.

LARGE REWARD OFFERED London. May 21. The late Mrs. Wilson, who was murdered near Le Touquet. was a daughter of the late Charles Cammell. of Messrs. Cammell and Laird, of which firm Mr. Wilson was -himself a director, being a sou of Mr. George Wilson, who is chairman of Cammell's. Mr. Wilson announces a large reward for anyone bringing bis wife's murderer to justice. WEAPON FOUND (Rec. May 22. S p.m.) * Paris, May 22. A muffler, also an ordinary hornhandled labourer’s knife, lias been found. Tha latter is believed to be the weapon used by the murderer of Mrs. Wilson.