THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1936.
RUXTON'S DIARY REVELATIONS "Happy Marriage Day" in India: Pretty Parsee Girl
The
Secret of
Motan
健藝
NICKNAMED "SAINT GABRIEL"
STILL protesting his innocence, Buck Ruxton,
the half-caste doctor who was sentenced to death for one of the most discussed crimes of the century, now occupies the condemned cell at Strangeways Prison, adjoining the Man- chostor Assize Court, where he stood his 11- days trial.
The death cell-two ordinary cells turned into one—at Strangeways Prison is less than five minutes' walk from the dock. where he listened to sentence of death being passed and saluted the judge with a secret sign of the Enst.
Ruxton's life story is an amaz-
ing one.
It can now be revealed that. Huxton was married in Bom- bay on May 7, 1925, to a beautiful Parsee girl-the daughter of well-to-do people. His diary-Ruxton was a dlary "worm" who day by day for muny noted the years had carefully
happenings in his life-shows how necessary it was. In view of his professional pursuits in country, to keep his
this marriage
secret from Isabella Stewart Korr, who was known in England, as Mrs. Ruxton.
It was the finding of this diary for 1925 which led to the poller! dincovering that he had a wife in India.
this
in
(£750)
Molan's favour.! Willingly subscribed my bond to
it.
Happy Marriage Day
ikelow
are extracts from
of hin firrt diary, which tells
From this latter entry it is ap-; meeting with Motan and their sub-
parent that Ruxton-was more than sequent betrothal and marriage.
pleased with his bride-to-be's The interesting 1925 dates are
May, in marriage dowry of £750, and he between March and
nenotes with pleasure the next day which latter month Ituxton, cording to his diary jottings, that "Mother was reconciled," add- married Matan-his belovedlining that the priest also paid him the Bombay Dadysett Fire Temple, the Parsee religious, headquarters in India.
Parsees are the followers of the in which faith, Zoroastrian matrimonial fidelity is embraced to a high degree.
On March 15 (Sunday) Ruxton, who was then an officer in the LM.S., wrote:
and
'As usual Molan came to tea-settled me with Motan for good and all. We exchanged our sym- pathy and lave,"
Then on March 16. “As usual, joy ride with Baru proniis
ed that he would kick if he
spoke or caused to be spoken any thing against my sister or mother
a visit.
May 7 was the day of the marriage. It was a Thursday and Ruxton wrote: “Marriage day at Dadysett Fire Temple. Cando Shah Sundu was ' my witness, Nadir. brother, was her Spent rupees 2,500 (181) in all-for marriage purposes. Motan X."
་
Moian's witness.
There was also the entry "My happy marriage day."
The next day he entered in the diary "As usual Motaa X." and the day after also "As usual Motan
X.
"Motan" then appears to fade out of his diary notes, for no fur- ther mention is made of her, and
Ordered a ten gulnen bracelet on Mag 25 he refers to a "Selec
thoroughly good for Motan. officer. May be a happy omen.'
The next day, "As usual came to my place to talk about money matters."
In the March 19 entry Ruxton notes that he "went to Motan's places for the first time." He writes on the following day.
"Went to Motan's place, Presented Maian with a brace-. let of gold and 21 guineas rash. Mstan presented me with pearl sterve-linka,**
Į
"May God bless un. Į kinned Motan 21 times in the preseNCE of her mother, whilat present- ing her with 21 guineas. Mel Burger's cousiu-cho told me to give up fer as she hated me, and did not wish to have anything to do with her. told him how wrensonable her father and mother and aistera cere, scanukulising ̧ mr saping I was a Mohammedan and was not putting on even Sudra (the Parsec's sacred shirt) and Kusti" (girdic).”
Betrothal Ceremony
On March 21 Ruxton noted that this was his birthday, and the diary on April 2 reveals that this was the day of his "Betrothal ceremony to darling Motau."
Further extracts leading up to his "Happy Marriage Day" are:
to
· April 24.—“As usual went Motan's place when she told me her parents suspected me to be
tion board meeting for permanent
Dr. Buck
Ruxton
and two of his children -who still think "Daddy is on holiday."
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"I knew my sister had led an; their parents have died suddenly, unhappy life with the doctor be will become the inmates of a national children's orphanage fore his arrest.
| where they, will be well looked
"Now I am terribly, worried over
the children's future"
The Children
Mrs. Nelson, whose father, now | dead, was colliery engineer. added that she hoped they would
e able to start life afresh.
She felt that if the children were left with her the knowledge that people had in the district of the crime would not give the kid- dies a fair start in life.
It is likely, it is understood, that the children, who may be told that
Rftrr.
Another eurious feature of the Ruxton caso has been the spate of anonymous letters which the authorities have received off and on since his arrest.
from. These letters came cranks, scers, "amateur crim- inologists, and others, nad Heveral of them claimed that Mrs. Ruxton and Mary Roger- son were still alive.
One letter stated that they would "return from the dead" if the doctor was convicted.
PEIPING STUDENTS. NOW nominations in the I.M.S." (Indian BECOME NANKING
Medical Service),
one
It was in the later 1920's “ that Ruxton came to England. In 1928, he changed his name from Bakhtyar Rustomji Hnkim to
that would serve his purpose and inter- ests better in this country.
Before Ruxton's arrest a cór.
travelled
him respondent
with part of the Why to Erlin
"
LEFTISTS
Peiping, Apr. 8.
Violent suppression of the Peiping students' movement by joint action of the Nanking Government, Hopei-Chahar Political Council and Japanese authorities in Peiping was to-day converting the students into an open Left Opposition to Gen. Chiang Kai-shek and the ruling Kuomintang.
The students movement which demands that the Central burgh, where he was going Government stop fighting its own people and fight Japan imme
dintely, is growing stronger and is refining under pressure, in the belief of highly competent neutral foreign observers here.
Conflict between the students and
to visit Mrs. Jeannie Kerr Nelson, his wife's" eldest sister.
It was Mrs. Nelson herself who
in an interview nt Manchester
revealed some of the missing links the Nanking-North China-Japanese
in her sister's association with this authorities is no longer a flash-in- the-pan affair but has settled down coloured man of mystery,
where
Mrs. Ruxton
WDS
It was at a cafe at Edinburgh, to an enduring struggle. Daily the the fissure between Young China and the Chinese Government grows wider and more complete.
Student leaders expect the authorities to continue suppression of the movement but at the same aro demanding such "modern eontraptions" as arrest by warrant, trial before, a lawfully- appointed judge within a reasonable bare lime on specified charges; necessities and medical attention while students are in prison and no torture by prison guards who have not received bribes.
manageress, that she was first in troduced to Ruxton, who was then using the name of Gabriel Hakim. Describing her knowledge then
of him, Mrs. Nelson, who is a wartime they widow sald:
"Ruxton, owing to his pious habits in those days, was known to his fellow students as 'Saint Gabriel. My sister was fascinated by him and it was after he went to London to work that she followed him there.
"But previously she had gone
Glory!
Mr. G. B. Shaw (no need to say "this is his picture") landed in Mexico. City recently.
Talked of! King Edward VIII.
Observed "1
am one of the his glories of reign."
Anti-Japanese
These new-fangled notions, how have been made the tools of Com- ever, meet with no sympathetic munists, pointing out that the Reds from Leith with a special visa to response from Gen. Sung Cheh also demand cessation of the war Rotterdam to have her marriago ruan, Governor of Hopei, Chairman against them in order to fight the following Mohammedan customs. with a Dutchman annulled. This of the Hopei-Chahar Political Coun-Japanese. I felt small and determined not to was about 1928 or 1929. She was cil, Commander of the 29th Army and Pacification Commander of away about a fortnight and cameliopei and Chahar, a warlord of the back free of her marriage,
"She had married this Dutch-old school, particularly when the man at the age of 18. It was in demands emanate from a mass of London where my sister's eldest "fresh pups".
Police Outwitted
go to her place till they were satis- fled about m"
in
nge. I proposed going to Simla this day and put it off till next day..
girl, Elizabeth, was born, and
So
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And then the diary reads on:
their anti-Japanese slogans. Apell 27-Went to Motan's
popular in this appeal that whole towns Iny down their defences, open place the afternoon. Her
the wall gates and welcome the mother shoved heaps of coal on my whist she was down there she! So the, the "fresh pups" have advancing Communists who promise
The following quotations on the head asking me to hurry up marri-wrote to ime to say that she and i thoroughly outwitted the police and to drive out the "dwaris" of Japan |
the opinion of from Chinese soll, and extinguish New York commodity exchange arc Ruxton had got married, but they gandarmes, in
The real all tax-squeezing officials and blood.issued by Reuter. foreign observers here. had kept the wedding a secret...
"My sister never told me where student leaders are still at large aucking landlords. These are the Went to Motan's place. Ordered when. I just took her word for prison were
May 3-Returned from Simla, the marriage had taken place, or while most of those thrown into words used by Japanese military
not the "wanted" officials themselves to explain the May out my Sahya for marriage,
wards the Peiping-Tientain region. May 4-Went to Motan's places it. It was at Ruxton's request, students but merely pickups to phenomenal Communist drive to. Mother refused to attend my received
after he went to Lancaster, that save face.
The similarity of the anti-December Many neutral recorders of cur lotters some from marriage ceremony as I could not abroad-for him and readdressed rent Chinese history have stated Japanese student slogans and the January spare rhpees 500 for Paris...
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Imagination or commands the res tween the two, oficials declare. cries my soul. Amen.
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