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DISTRICT.

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From the Studio

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tions.

LANCASTER MURDER

CASE

Dr. Ruxton On Trial At Police Court

ALLEGED STATEMENTS BEFORE ARREST

London, Nov. 30. Did you notice anything abour

The hearing was continued at the water that you threw on the Lancaster Police Court yesterday carpet?--Yes.

1

It was just like of the case against Dr. Buck Rux- blood, ton, of Dalton Square, Lancaster,

Did you notice whether those who is charged with the murder bloodstains were wet or dry?--They at Lancaster between September (were damp, not dry.

I and 29 of Mary Jane Rogerson, 20, nursemaid employed by him at his house, and of his wife. Isabella Ruxton.

The case for the prosecution is that human remains found in a

"MY WIFE HAS GONE AWAY"

"A length of stair carpet handed to the witness. It was un- rolled, and Mrs. Hampshire identi fed it as that upon which she

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received

Instructions

TO SELL T

PUBLIC AUCTION

ON.

FRIDAY, DEC. 20, 1935-

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CommEngine at 5.15 P.M.

J

AT THEIR SALES ROOM, DUUDELL STREET

A FINE COLLECTION OF VALUABLE OSTAGE

-STAMPS

ravine at Moffat and in the neigh-lengths of carpet were produced,

had thrown the water. Two more TERMS:-CASH ON DELIVRET.

and Mrs. Hampshire said that one of them had bloodstains on it.

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bouring area were those of the 8 p.m.-Local time and weather.re-dead women. "Body No..

port, cluding local stock quota-alleged to be that of Mary Roger son, and "Body No. 2" that of Mrs. 8:05 to 8.10 p.m-"I Love you so" Ruxton. The prosecution allege

from "The Merry Widow that Dr.

Ruston murdered his (Lehar) sung by Richard wife and the nursemaid in the Crooks (Tenor). 8.10 to 8.30 p.m.---

From the Studio

house at Lancaster.

Mr, G. R. Paling. solicitor. appears for the Director of Public

"An Australian Visitor's Impres presented by Mr. E. Slinger and Prosecutions. Dr. Ruxton is re- sions of Hong Kong" by Nor-Mr. G. F. Gardner, solicitors. man Banks

2.30 to 9 p.m.-

A Relay from Daventry The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra.

directed, by Henry Hall

Mrs. Hampshire resumed her evidence from the point where she finished on Thursday, when she told how on Sunday, September 15, she did certain cleaning work Dr. Ruxton's house during the (Copy-evening and then went home with her husband. She said the next time she saw Dr. Ruxton was

$ to 9.20 p.m.-A Relay of the

Daventry News Bulletin

right by Reuter).

9.20 to 9.40 pm-

From the Studio

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She scrubbed that carpet first strong washing soda. There were with petrol and then with very

also some stair pads. She did not send the sult to be cleaned. She burned the waistcoat because it

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jacket and trousers. intending to was so badly stained, but kept the PUBLIC AUCTION.

Handed the jacket and trousers try to wash them. Later she the three pieces of carpet, and the stair pads to the police.

Was

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Instructions

TO SELL ET

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Mrs. Hampshire said that on the aume day as she cleaned the car- pets the 16th, she again visited Dr. Ruxton's house. There no one in at the time: She noticed that everything was cleaned up. The two top bedrooms that were locked the day before were sur BATUBDAY DEC. 21, 1935 about "9 o'clock the following locked... The table had been clear- morning, when he came to her

ed in the lounge. When Dr. Rux- house. He did not knock, at the ton came into the house at 1 or door, but walked in. She spoke 1.30 p.m. she asked why he had first, and said: "Good God, doctor, sent for her as there was nothing Lullaby Low ll you look." He said: "Yes to do. He said: "I sent for you I am : I have been awake all because you have given me "cour- night with my Hand paining me.”.

age." He told her he had tele- TAB ON A SUFT

phoned to a local cafè for some. Referring to a suit which she dinner.

A Jasz Plano Recital by Doreen

Må.

B

(50-

Wake! ("Colfo the North)

··Lesile Hutchinsdn. What is this thing? ("Tempta-

tion").- Frances Day prano). Nagasaki-The Mills Brothers. 10 p.m.-Big Ben: Renter Press

Bulletins.

CONSOURIAT.11"

AT THEIR SALES ROOM, DUDOFIL STREET.

A CONSIGNMENT · OF BEST QUALITY TIENTSIN CARPETS AND RUGS

(Various Sizes and Designs)

OF VIEW FROM FRIDAY,~~ Tas 201 DECEMBER, 1835.

9.40 to 10 p.m.--

Song-Rehearsing

Les Allen (Baritone) Vocal-When that Harvest Moon Is Shining The Hill Billies. Rock and Roll ("Transatlantic

Merry-go-round").The Bos-sald Dr. Ruxton had given her.

"I said to the doctor." Mrs. well Sisters.

the witness said that the accused Hampshire went on, "Why don't remarked, that it was in a very you send for the missus, doctor?" dirty condition, and said he would He replied: She is in London. I take it away and have it cleaned sald: Doctor, you are telling me for her. The witness said she lles, and he replied; 'Yes, I am. demurred, saying she would pay I will tell you the truth. My wife for it to be cleaned. He then

has gone away with another "man picked up the coat and pointed and left me with the three child- out a tab on the lining of the 10-ren A man comes to your house TERMS side breast pocket. He, then asked as a friend. You treat him as one. for the scissors, and when she gave He eats from your table and makes them to him said his hand was love to your wife behind your back. too bad and he could not cut it It is terrible. I could forgive ex- but himself. He asked her if she travagance or anything else, but would cut it out, and she did so, infidelity never." She went on talking to him, play- "не seemed to me to be very Ing with the tab, and then he upset. He fald down his head on cald: "Throw it in the fire; throw the edge of the settee and cried it in the fire." She threw it in bitterly. I was extremely sOTTY the, are, and the doctor watched for him, and asked him to le until it had burnt. She asked him down for a little while I got is. why he wanted the tab cut out, lunch. This he did, and after he and he said it was very undignit had had lunch he attended in his ea for a man to be wearing-an-

surgery." other man's clothes and other

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people to know it.

He asked her if she would go to his house in the afternoon, as his charwoman was not very well. He said she could open the door to the patients as they came.

The witness went on: "I said

·

RUBBISH IN THE YARD

In the afternoon, Mrs. Hamp- shire said, the dustmen called for the rubbish, which was kept in a yard at the back of the house. While they were there the doctor came into the yard and asked the again to the doctor: Where is Mrs dustmen to clear all the rubbish Ruxton? Why don't you send for away. This included the carpets her when you are so 17 He said she had seen on the previous day. she had gone to Edinburgh, and portions of half-burnt clothing. I said: "I am sure she could not and a lot of rubbish piled up in a enjoy herself if she knew how ill copper which looked as it someone you were. He said that he did had been scraping the not care to spoil her holiday. Under the rubbish in the corner Then I asked him if he wanted seemed to be quite a number of the vestibule key that I had taken bloodstained things, KALY the previous night. He said No, you will want it to get in with, Then the doctor left."

walls

Mr. Paling-What do you mean by bloodstained things?-It was clothing, sir. I could not see what it was raped g

Mrs. Hampshire said the dist-

Mr. Paling Did you notice any Period.

thing on the tab which was cut 640_p.m-English Informational out? Yes, there was "Epstein" men did not take the carpets, as

Period.

printed on: It, and there was "BDr. Ruston said she could have 8.55 p.m.--Stock quotations, through | Ruxton" written in ink on a piece those. She did not take them,

the courtesy of Swan, Culbert- of tape. WAAND

however, because they were very son and-Fritz.

Mr. Paling Did you notice any-wet with the rain: 7. p.m.Máx Lazo and his Ha- thing about the doctor apart from Continuing her evidence, Mrë

walians. Die

the fact that he looked 111?—Yes, Hampshire said that on the Sub-

7.15 p.m.—The Magle Brain with ha was not shared. He did not day evening she knocked over a the Magic Eye, presents "Music scem to have a collar and tie en tin of petrol at the top of the „... in the Air" with Mal Partridge, and he had a very old raincoat, cellar stepa, behind the back door. 7.30 p.m.-The Town Cfter presents What made it all the more re On the Monday Dr. Ruxton said he - •* ́quarter-hour; of: Melody.markable was that the doctor was had been using the petrol, to burp 1,45 p.m.-Elizalde y Cia presenta always so well dressed.

the shirt and towels which were Kits Tablante and his College. After the doctor had gone did lying in the yard and they were so Harmonizers,

you do anything? Yes, I looked saturated that they would not burn.

it was

bloodstained or appeared of the shirt and towels

-Cash on DelITERY

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THE Undersigned have

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MONDAY, DEC. 23, 1936

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the bloodstained. I thought “I Mrs. Hampshire, said that on the graphic Goods

would look at the carpets theri, following Thursday she went to There were three pieces of carpet the doctor's surgery: about 2 p.m. and one was in a shocking condi- The doctor was not in, but bo tion. It was so badly bloodstained came in about 3 o'clock. He asked that I did not hardly know what her if she had got the suit cleaned to do with it

11 p.m.--Sign off

Sundry Goods.

She told him that she had but TERMS:Cask on DaliyZXy.

Did you do anything with that that was not true. 'She next saw plece of carpet? Yes, Yes, I lalá ❘ the doctor a fortnight later, when it in the back yard and threw about 30 buckets of water on it.

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