MURDERS CONFESSED

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 198, 19 May 1936, Page 9

MURDERS CONFESSED

Executed Man’s Letter London, May 17. Dr. Buck Ruxton, who was executed on May 12 for the murder of his wife and his maid, 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 Ruxton’s bold handwriting, explains that 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 that it must not be opened until after his death, but if he was acquitted, as he thought he must be, it was to be returned to him. The friend locked the envelope in a safe. 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. The “News of the World” adds that even to his own solicitor Ruxton protested his innocence to the last, yet he knew from October 14 that the confession was in the envelope.