DOCTOR FACES CHARGE
MOFFAT RAVINE MYSTERY
PEOSECTJTOE'S STOEY
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(Received November 27, 2.10 p.m.)
LONDON, November 2G.
Mr. G. R. Paling, Director of Public Prosecutions, in a' two and a half hour speech, outlined the case against Dr. Buck Ruxton, who is alleged to have murdered his wife and his nursemaid, Miss M. J. Rogerson, one night. He said that Mrs. Ruxton was strangled and Miss Rogerson was struck on the head though not sufficiently severely to cause death. The cause oi her death was not apparent. It was alleged that Dr. Ruxton afterwards dismembered the bodies, removing various marks of identification, including the eyes, teeth, noses, lips, and ears, and also skinned the faces.
Mr. Paling, in giving details of the methods the police employed to secure identification of the bodies, said that the prosecution could produce Dr. Ruxton's diary which would show that he and his wife had often quarrelled. Dr. Ruxton was believed to be jealous of his wife's association with a man named Edmonson.
The case was adjourned.
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, Dumfriesshire. A doctor's report on the parts recovered indicated that they were the remains of a man between 55 and 60 years of age and of a woman about 30. They were so mutilaied that identification was almost impossible.
Dr. Ruxton was charged on October 13 with having murdered Miss Mary Jane Rogerson, aged 20, and on November 6 he was also charged with having murdered his wife, Mrs. Isobel Ruxton, aged 35. He was remanded after an angry outburst, in which he declared: "My religion would not allow me to do it."
DOCTOR FACES CHARGE
Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 129, 27 November 1935, Page 10
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