Word: ruxton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brilliant academic way to Edinburgh in 1927 and in this dingy grey and bleak seat of Scottish learning seduced a waitress by the name of Isabella Van Hess. Student Ratanji was then using the name "Gabriel Hakin," but on marrying his waitress he proceeded to become legally "Buck Ruxton." Soon, as Dr. Ruxton, he became a popular and prosperous gynecologist who delivered hundreds of well-to-do Lancaster mothers and had last week a fine snug house in Dalton Square...
...excitable Mohammedan had come to believe that Mrs. Ruxton, of whose morals as a waitress he was particularly well aware, was now carrying on with a young lawyer in the Town Clerk's office. Therefore Dr. Ruxton encircled his wife's neck with strong, jealous fingers and, as her screams became faint gurgles and she died of strangulation, the Mohammedan looked up to find staring at him in petrified horror the pretty nurse of his three small children, Mary Jane Rogerson...
...spring like an Indian tiger upon the witness of his crime was Ratanji's instant reaction. A little later Dr. Ruxton got out his scalpels, his knives, his surgical saws. He cut off Mrs. Ruxton's nose, ears, fingertips and toetips - extremities which to an expert criminal pathologist such as Britain's famed Sir Bernard Spilsbury would reveal traces of asphyxia and indicate that death had come by strangulation. As to Mary Jane Rogerson, Dr. Ruxton figured on fooling police into thinking she might have been a man. With this in mind he detached from her corpse...
Late that afternoon Dr. Ruxton sent not for his usual charwoman but for a Mrs. Hampshire, a humble soul who was working off a debt to the doctor and might keep her mouth shut. She found, as she afterwards testified, the house a shambles, with straw littered in all the rooms and on the stairs, carpets spread out in the rain in the back yard, and the bath tub stained a curious yellow most difficult to scrub clean. After she had done her work, Mrs. Hampshire had pressed upon her by her Oriental creditor a blue serge suit with bloodstains...
...least as long as 85 years ago Westerners called Mexicans "greasers," according to Ruxton's Life Far West, "from their greasy appearance." The name stuck to the poorer class of Mexican, and in that sense TIME characterized Senator Bronson Cutting as "the faithful friend of the lowly 'greaser...