BRUTAL MURDER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 May 1928, Page 5

BRUTAL MURDER.

A TERRIBLE STRUGGLE. WOMAN DONE TO DEATH. Press Association-Electric Telegraph-Copy right. PARIS, Monday. Mrs Plorenee Wilson, an Englishwoman, aged 50, was brutally murdered on the sand dunes near Le Touquet, 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 footmark's. The 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 bo some connection with the unsolved Nurse Daniels mystery. — ("Times” Cable). (The body of May 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. The Ereneh poliee evolved many theories as to the crime, but were never able to find the criminal) . ROBBERY NOT MOTIVE. LONDON, Monday. A Paris message states that there are fourteen knife wounds in Mrs Wilson’s neck, breast and any one of which would have been fatal.

There was money in the victim’s handbag, so 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 tho brushwood. A man’s torn coat, covered with blood, was found near the place where a deaf mute named Yambre works. Yambre, by signs, denies the murder,, but he had previously been charged ■with assaults on women, and he had been detained at an asylum for degenerates. —(Australian and N.Z. I ress Association), ..

ENGLISHMAN SUSPECTED. (Received Tuesday, 10.45 a.m.) PARIS, Monday. •' As the outcome of an important statement obtained from a resident, who says that he saw a man running into the bushes at the seene of the murder of Mrs Wilson, the police are now searching for an Englishman, of whom they have a detailed description. It is believed that Yandre has established his innocence, and may be released to-day. Wilson was formerly managing director of an iron and steel company ini Cumberland. Mrs Wilson, before her marriage, lived in Wiltshire, and was a wellknown West Cumberland huntswoman. —Australian and N.Z. Press Assn.