MURDER CHARGE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 279, 28 November 1935, Page 8

MURDER CHARGE

DR. BUXTON ON TRIAL MOFFAT RAVINE CRIME ■ LONDON, Nov. 26. -Mi. G. R. Paling, Director of Public Prosecutions, in 2£ hours’ speech outlined the case against Dr. Buck Buxton, who is alleged to have murdered his wife and a nursemaid named Rofferson, one night. The wife was strangled and Rogerson struck on the head, but not sufficiently severely to cause death, the reason for which is not apparent. Thereafter, he dismembered their bodies, removing various marks of identification, including the eyes, teeth, nose, lips and ears. He also skinned their faces. Mr. Paling, in giving details of the methods the police employed to secure identification, said the prosecution would produce Ruxton's diary showing he and his wire often quarrelled. Ruxton was jealous of his wife’s association with a man named Edmondson. it was cabled on the 16th. inst., that Dr. Ruxton had been 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 charges against Dr. Ruxton was in connection with what is known as the Moffat Ravine mystery. A cable message received on October 2 stated that the discovery of Ihe 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 45 and 60 years of age and of a woman of about They were so mutilated that iden rification was almost impossible. BAIL GRANTED Received Nov. 27, 11.20 p.m. MELBOURNE, Nov. 27. Di. Bothamley was granted bail in the sum of £lOOO and another surety of £lOOO.