ON TRAIL OF SLAYER

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 656, 7 May 1929, Page 9

ON TRAIL OF SLAYER

MURDERED ENGLISHWOMAN IN FRANCE EARLY ARREST EXPECTED (Australian arid -V. Z. Press Association) LONDON, Sunday. It now transpires that the woman whose dead body was found on Saturday in a tank at Les Baux, a village in the south of Prance, and whose name was formerly Miss Olive Branson, was the divorced wife of a British officer. Captain Wilson. A detective who is investigating the circumstances surrounding the woman’s death says he expects to lay hands on her murderer or murderers to-morrow. He says the crime was committed by a man, or men, who knew the habits of deceased well, had entry to her villa, and knew her four watch dogs. There were a number of things in the dead woman's life in her isolated retreat, says the detective, which throw a vivid light on the case and which will astonish even her friends. The evidence secured includes deceased’s diary, wherein she made notes of her movements and her expenditure with meticulous care. Miss Branson married Captain Wilson under romantic circumstances in 1918. They had met during a German air raid at a British base camp in 1917. Captain Wilson divorced his wife in 1927 after an unhappy married life and a long separation alleged to have been due to the woman’s eccentricities.