Doctor Faces Double Murder Charge

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 November 1935, Page 6

Doctor Faces Double Murder Charge

PROSECUTOR’S STORY.

(By Telegraph-Press Assn.--Copyright) Received November 27, 7 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 20.

Mr G. B. Paling, Director of Public Prosecutions, in a two and a half hour speech, outlined the case against Dr Buck Buxton, who is alleged to have murdered his wife and his nursemaid Miss M. J. Rogorson, one night. tie said that Mrs Buxton was strangled and Miss Bogerson was struck on the head though not sufficiently severely to cause death. The cause of her death was not apparent. It was alleged that Dr. Buxton 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 thr the prosecution could produce Dr. Buxton’s diary which would show that h** and his wife had often quarrelled. Dv. Buxton was believed to be jealous of his wife’s association with a man named Edmonson.

Mr Paling added that from evidence the police had accumulated, it was c(3a r there was no foundation for Dr. Buxton’s jealousy regarding Edmonson or any other man. Dr. Buxton doubtless

murdered Miss Rogerson to prevent her giving evidence against him regarding the murder of his wife. The case was adjourned.

The charges against Dr. Euxton are in connection with what is known :.s the Moffat Ravine mystery. A cable message received on October 2 stutd 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 bdwmn 55 and 00 years of age and o* a woman about 30. They were so muf la ted that identification was alniott impi.ss'ble. Lr. Ruxto.n was charged on Ociolmr 13 with having murdered Miss Mary Jane Rogerson, aged 20, and on November 0 he was also charged with having murdered his wife, Mrs Isobcl Ruxion, aged 35. He was remanded after an angry outburst, in which he declared: ‘‘My religion would not allow me to do it.”