DOCTOR CONFESSES TO WIFE'S MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 116, 18 May 1936, Page 7

DOCTOR CONFESSES TO WIFE'S MURDER.

AMAZING DOCUMENT. Letter Left to be Opened After Execution. DENIAL OP GUILT ASTONISHES United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 17. Dr. Buck Ruxton, the Indian Parsee pra'ctiti'oner of Lancaster, who was executed for the murder of his wife, left a' letter to be opened after his death. The letter states: "I killed Mrs. Ruxton in a fit of temper because I thought she had been with a man. I was mad at the time. Mary Rogerson, the maid, was present and I had to kill her.— B. Ruxton." The "News of the World," in publishing this remarkable confession in facsimile in Dr. Ruxton's bold handwriting, explains that Dr. Ruxton on the night of October 12, was taken to a police station. He received a friend in his cell on October 14 and gave him a sealed envelope, saying it must not be opened until after his death, but if he were acquitted, as he thought he must be, it was to be returned to him.

The friend locked the envelope in a safe. Dr. Ruxton, during his trial, spoke to his friend and told him that in the impossible event of a verdict of guilty the envelope was to be handed unopened to the editor of the "News of the World." The friend complied half an hour after the execution on May 12.

The "News of the World" adds that even to his own solicitor Dr. Ruxton protested his innocence to the last, yet lie knew from October 14 that his confession was in the envelope.