BRUTAL MURDER

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1910, 22 May 1928, Page 3

BRUTAL MURDER

EN G LI.SI IWU MAN TUB Vi CTIM DISCOVERY AT LE BOCKGET (Aust. and N.Z. Cable). Paris, May 20. Mrs Florence Wilson, an Englishwoman, aged 00, was brutally murdered on the sand dunes near Le Bourget, at which place she lived in a rented bungalow. Mrs Wilson was strangled and stabbed several times. There was evidence of a great struggle—the sand was churned up with numerous footmarks. The woman’s handbag was Intact .Mrs Wilson’s husband arrived from London during the week end. ’There have been two arrests efcfed, one being a deaf mute. The police believe Dial there may be some connection with the unsolved mystery of Nurse Daniels, the young Englishwoman who was strangled last year. Later. There were i-1 knife wounds in Mrs Wilson’s neck, breast and back, any one of which would be fatal. There was money in the woman’s handbag so that robbery was not the motive. .She had been paying golf and elio.se a walk home alone. 'When she did not arrive, her husband informed the police, whose dogs eventually found the body in some brushwood. A man’s lorn coat; covered with blood, was found near (be place where a deaf mute named Yambre works. Vumbre, by signs, denies the murder charge, but he has been previously charged with assaults upon women and has been detained in an asylum for degenerates.

On bottl'd (-he. Makurn which arrived at Wellington from Sydney yesterday on her way to San Francisco were- 17 delegates from Australia, to the World's Baptist) Conference, which, opens in Toronto next month. The number of delegates from this part of the. world, will he. made up to 1!) by the inclusion of two more- worn New Zealand. Amongst the delegates are the- Rev. F. 15. Woods, the Rev. ■Sale Harrison. :md Mr John Down-

“Don'i, talk to ns about hedgehogs being good lor clearing gardens of snails and slabs,” said a Kio Kio set tier. ‘‘They are a. real post anil have great- weakness for eggs. They clean up garden pests till right, hut one duck will eat as many slttgis and snails in a day as a. hedgehog will in a month. The hedgehog' in this district, and also in the Kawa, swamp, cat a- great many eggs of wild (lucks, pukeko and turkeys. . What with stoats, weasels and ferrets killing the birds it. is no wonder there is very ’little- gttme here for sportsmen. The, hedgehogs were introduced to Ivin Kio district about 1 Id years ago, .and we settlers here all regret it. ’

Some reason, for his personal lack of enthusiasm on the occasion ol the opening of the shooting season were given by one usually keen sporv-anun whose gun has not been taken down from its place on the wall this season fsny.s the Grevmouth Star.) “What is the use?” lie asked, when questioned by. a reporter. “There are practically no birds available within easy distance of the town, and a. lengthy motor trip is necessary in order to find any targets. Even in the hack areas, the shooting is nothing like what it was a. few years ago. Some of the so-called sports have made it too hot. Not satisfied with bagging a. few ducks they go in for wholesale slaughter, and never think of the other fellow. The consequence is that the birds have greatly decreased in numbers. There is, of course, the close season during the year, but T suspect that- not a. few casualties occur in the more remote part iS the district, despite *ho rangers. Personally, I believe that shooting should be prohibited altogether for one year, at least. -Such a. respite would have very beneficial effects,”