MURDER OF NURSEMAID
CHARGE AGAINST EMPLOYER WIFE REPORTED MISSING (Received October 14, 6.5 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 14 In connection with the finding in the deep Moffat Ravine, Gardenholme, Dumfriesshire, on September 29, of two dismembered human bodies, one male and one female, wrapped in some 30 newspaper parcels, Dr. Buck Ruxton, of Lancaster, has been charged with the murder of his nursemaid, Mary Jane liogerson, aged 20, who was identified as one of the victims. Dr. Ruxton's wife Isobel, aged 35, is reported missing. It is now believed that the second body of which portions wero found is a woman's, but the torso is missing. Ruxton, who is 36, is a French-Indian Mohammedan, and qualified in Bombay.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22240, 15 October 1935, Page 9
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