MANY KNIFE WOUNDS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 360, 22 May 1928, Page 9

MANY KNIFE WOUNDS

SEARCH FOR SLAYER OF WOMAN ENGLISHMAN SUSPECTED (United P.A. — By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Association) Reed. 10.45 a.m. PARIS, Monday. As the outcome of an important statement obtained from a resident, I 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 the deaf-mute Vendre has established his innocence, and may be released to-day.. Mr. Wilson was formerly 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. There were 14 knife wounds in ?»Irs. Wilson’s neck, breast and back, any one of which would have been fatal. There was money in her handbag, so that robbery was not the motive of the deed. The victim had been playing golf and had elected to walk home alone. When she did not arrive at the bungalow her husband informed the police, whose dogs eventually found the body in some brushwood. A man’s torn coat, covered with blood, was found near the place where the deafmute, Vendre, works. By signs Vendre denied the murder. He had previously been charged with assaults on women and had been detained at a mental institution for degenerates. A later message says the police are now’ of the opinion that the 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 grey raincoat who was seen near the brushwood at the time of the murder.