RAVINE MYSTERY

Southland Times, Issue 22732, 7 November 1935, Page 5

RAVINE MYSTERY

DOCTOR CHARGED WITH MURDER. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, November 5. Dr. Buck Ruxton, who has been charged with murder in connection with the ravine mystery, 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 discovery on September 30 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 man’s 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 the female. Dr. Buck Ruxton, aged 36, a French-Indian Mohammedan, who qualified at Bombay, was later arrested and charged with the murder of his nursemaid, Mary Jane Rogerson, aged 20.