BRUTALLY MURDERED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 22 May 1928, Page 5

BRUTALLY MURDERED

AN ENGLISHWOMAN" IN FRANCE

United Press Association—By Eleetrio Telegraph—Copyright. '•Times" Cables.

PARIS, 20th Slay. Sirs Florence Wilson, an English woman, aged 60, was brutally murdered on the sand dunes near Le Tonquet, where she rented a. bungalow. She was strangled and stabbed several times. There was evidence of a great struggle, and the sand was churned up with numerous footmarks. 'Hie victim's handbag was intact. Her husband arrived from London at the week-end. There have been two arrests, one of a deaf mute. The police believe that there may be some connection with the unsolved Nurse Daniels mvstery.

FOURTEEN KNIFE WOUNDS

LONDON, 21st Slay

A Paris message states that there were fourteen knife wounds in Sirs Wilson's neck, breast and back, any one of which would he fatal. There was money, in the woman's handbag so that robbery was not the motive. 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 body in the brushwood.^ A man's torn coat covered with blood' was found near the place where a deaf mute named Vamhre works. Vanibre by signs chillies the murder, but he has previously been charged with assaults on women, and he has been detained at an asylum for degenerates.

SEARCH FOR AN ENGLISHMAN (Received 22nd Slav, 10.45 a.m.) PARIS, 2rst Slay. As an outcome of an important, statement obtained from a resident who says he saw a man running into the bushes at the scene of the Wilson murder, the police are now searching for an Englishman of whom they have a detailed description. It is believed that Vandre has established his innocence and he may be released to-day. Wilson was formerly the managing director of an iron and steel company in Cumberland. Mrs Wilson, before her marriage, lived in Wiltshire and was a well-known West Cumberland huntswoman. FRENCH POLICE TFIEORV (Received 22nd May. 1 p.m.) LONDON. 21st May. It is stated that the French police aro now of opinion that the Wilson murder may not have been a mere brutal crime, but the climax of an encounter with a personal enemy. They are searching for a man in a grev rain coat who was seen near the brushwood at the. time of the murder.

The body of Slay Daniels, an English nurse, who disappeared in October, 1926, at Boulogne,'on an excursion from England, was found six months later on the sandhills in such a state as to indicate murder, but the French police failed to trace the murderer.