GHASTLY ATROCITY

Northern Advocate, 22 May 1928, Page 5

GHASTLY ATROCITY

SAND DUNES MURDER ENGLISH WOMAN TIIE VICTIM. DANIELS’ MYSTERY RECALLED. (Australian Press Association.) (Received 2.30 p.m.) PARIS, May 20.

Mrs Florence Wilson, an English woman, aged 50 years, was brutally murdered in the sand dimes near Le Bonrget, where she rented a bungalow.

She was strangled and several times stabbed. There was evidence of a great struggle, the sand being churned

up and numerous footmarks showing. The victim’s handbag was intact. Her husband arrived from London during the week-end.

! Two arrests were made, one Vicing a d.-af mute. The-police believe there may be some connection with the unsolved Nurse Daniels' mystery. FOURTEEN KNIFE WOUNDS. BLOODSTAINED COAT CLUE. DEAF MUTE ARRESTED. (Australian Press Association.) (Received 9 a.m.) 9 LONDON, May 21. A Paris message states that there were 14 knife wounds in -Mrs Wilson’s neck, breast and back, any one of which would he fatal. There was money in the woman’s handbag, so robbery was not tlumotive.

She had been playing golf and chose to walk home alone. When she did not arrive her husband informed the police, whose dogs eventually found the bodv in some brushwood.

A man’s torn coat, covered with blood, was found near the place where a deaf mute named Yambre works. A T ambre, by signals, denies the murder, but he was previously charged with assaults on women and has been detained at ah asylum for degenerates. RESIDENT'S OBSERVATIONS. SEARCH FOR ENGLISHMAN. (Australian Press Association.) (Received 11.40 a.m.) PARIS, May 21. As the outcome of an important statement obtained from a resident who says that he saw a man running Into the bushes at the scene of the Wilson murder, the police arc now searching for an Englishman of whom they have a detailed description. It is believed that Yendro has established his innocence and may lie re- i leased today. . Mr ’Wilson.. was formerly managing director of an .iron: ,and stftpl in Cumberland’ and Mrs Wilson, before her marriage, lived in Wiltshire and was a well-known West Cumberland Inmtswoman.

POLICE THEORY,

PERSONAL ENMITY,

(Australian Press Association.) (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, May 21

A Le Bourget message says that the police arc now of the opinion that the Wilson murder may not have boon a mere brutal crime, but the climax of an encounter with a personal enemy. They are searching for a man in a grey raincoat who was seen near the brushwood at the time of the murder.