WIFE MURDER ALSO
DR. RUXTON CHARGED
MOFFAT RAVINE MYSTERY
(Received November 7, noon.)
LONDON, November 6.
Dr. Buck Ruxton, of Lancaster, who was. charged on October 13 with the murder of his nursemaid, has been additionally charged with the murder of his" wife. He was remanded after an angry outburst, in which he declared: "My religion would not allow me to do it."
The charges against Dr. Ruxton are in connection with what is known as the Moffat Ravine mystery. A cable message received on October 2. stated that the discovery of the 30 newspaper parcels containing portions of the bodies of a man and a woman was a sequel to the finding of the heads from the two bodies, also wrapped in newspapers, in a deep ravine at Gardenholm, i Dumfriesshire. A doctor's re-port-on the-,parts recovered indicated that they were the remains of a man between'-55 and 60 years of age and of a woman of about 30. They were so mutilated that identification was' almost impossible.
Dr. Ruxton's nursemaid, Miss M. J. Rogerson, aged 20, was identified as one of the victims, and his wife, Mrs. Isobel Ruxton, aged 35, was reported to be missing.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1935, Page 9
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197WIFE MURDER ALSO Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1935, Page 9
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