RAVINE MURDER CASE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22831, 16 March 1936, Page 9

RAVINE MURDER CASE

INDIAN DOCTOR’S CRIMES A VERDICT OF GUILTY LONDON, March 13. Ruxton was found guilty and sentenced to death. The jury was absent 62 minutes. Ruxton, when the verdict was announced, almost inaudibly spoke of the fairness of the trial. He announced his intention of appealing. He raised his am from the elbow in the form of the salute, repeating the gesture as four warders escorted him from the dock. The discovery on September 30, 1935, of portions of bodies, including the heads of a man and a woman, wrapped in newspapers, in a deep ravine in Gardenholm, Dumfriesshire, was followed by the finding of other gruesome parcels, apparently scattered in the ravine from a motor car. Doctors reported that the parts recovered indicated that the remains were those of a man between 55 and 60 and a woman about 30, so mutilated that identification is almost impossible. The mauls fingers were cut off at the knuckles, the ears of both victims were severed, and the skin of the woman's torso and the man’s face was removed with a sharp instrument resembling a scalpel. The male remains were more decomposed than those of thefemale. Dr Buck Ruxton, aged 36, a French-Indian Mohammedan, who qualified at Bombay, was later arrested and charged with the murder of his wife.