MURDERED IN A TRAIN.

Western Star, 1 April 1920, Page 4

MURDERED IN A TRAIN.

HEEOIO WAR NURSE’S SAD FATE.

In circumstances strikingly reminiscent of the murder of Miss Mary Sophia' Money in the Merstham Tunnel 15 years ago, a. lady, Miss Florence Nightingale Shore, 56, has died from brutal injuries inflicted by a. man. unknown during a train journey from Victoria to St. Leonards, on the London, Brighton, and South Coast line. Miss Shore lingered for some days in hospital, and passed arway without regaining consciousness.. Throughout the. whole of that time a lady friend, who saw her off on. her last journey, sat by her bedsido, and never left. She was a. well-connected woman, a god-child of the immortal Florence Nightingale,- sister of a brigadier-general, and niece of a baroness. She was a war nurse with a glorious record—an “ old campaigner,” in. fact, for she served in South Africa and for five yeans in France. The most extraordinary feature of the dastardly crime is the fact that, from Polegate to Bexhill, three working men travelled in the same coach as Miss Shore, oblivious of her unconscious condition or, the terrible injuries to her head. With great cunning and method the murderer had covered up his tracks, and propped the dying lady in a natural sitting posture in a comer df the carriage. —Masking the Crime.—

Disfigured, unconscious, and soaked in blood from a gaping wound in the bead, the desperate plight of Miss Shore was- first discovered at Bexhill, though every circumstance indicates that she was attacked between Victoria and Lewes. She had a severe lacerated wound on the left side of the skull, the result, it is thought, of three blows altogether, the last one of particular violence. Her clothing was torn, and one hand slightly scratched, details which suggested that she offered some resistance to attempted outrage. Demobilised in November from the Queen Alexandra Nursing Home Reserves, the unfortunate lady had been staying recently with friends at Carnforth Lodge, Hammersmith.