WOMAN DONE TO DEATH

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 60, 22 May 1928, Page 5

WOMAN DONE TO DEATH

MURDER IN SAND DUNES. SEARCH FOR ENGLISHMAN. POLICE HAVE DESCRIPTION. ■ i : i 'United. Press Assn. —By Electric Telegraph Copyright. 1 (Received 10.45 a.m.) PARIS, May 21. As the outcome of an important statement obtained from a resident v/ho says he saw a man running . into the bushes at the scene of Mrs | Wilson’s murder, the police are now searching for an Englishman, of : whom they have a detailed descrip- j tion. It is believed 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, and Mrs Wilson before her marriage, lived in Wiltshire and was well known in West Cumberland as a huntswoman. —Australian Press Assn. (An earlier cable stated: “Mrs Florence Wilson, an English woman, aged 50, was brutally murdered in the sand dunes near L e Bourget, r ,where she rented a bungalow. She was strangled and stabbed several times. A man’s torn coat, covered with blood, was found near the place Where the deaf mute named Vambre works. Vambre, by signs, denies the murder, but he has previously been charged with assaults on women,, and he had been detained at an asylum for degenerates.)