MURDERED WOMAN’S LIFE OF ISOLATION

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6902, 7 May 1929, Page 7

MURDERED WOMAN’S LIFE OF ISOLATION

STRANGE THINGS REVEALED.

UNHAPPY MARRIAGE WITH ARMY

OFFICER,

United Press Association —By Electrii Telegraph—Copyright, Received Monday, 9.15 p.m. LONDON,’ May 6.

The detective clearing Up tke'Branson mystery states that he' cah lay his hands On the murderer or' murderers to-morrow. It is a ih'an of men who know Miss Olive Branson’s habits, liao entry to her house and knew her four watch dogs’well. There are a number of things in the dead woman’s life in her isolated retreat which throw vivid light on the case, which will astoijisli even her friends. The evidOnde includes Miss Branson’s diary, wherein she noted her movements and expenditure with" meticulous care. It reveals that Miss Branson had a romantic marriage with a Captain Wilson in 1918. The couple met during a Germhh air raid at a Bristol baso caifip in 1917. Capt Wilson divorced her in 1927, after an unhappy married life and long separation duo to Bliss Branson’s eccentricities.

Miss Olive Branson,, an Englishwoman, was found dead in a tank at her villa, an inquest revealing a bullet in the head. -