Word: ruxton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Roy Dikeman Chapin Jr., son of the late Hudson Motors head and onetime Secretary of Commerce; to Ruth Mary Ruxton, of New York and Greenwich, Conn.; in Manhattan...
Because Dr. Hakim Bakhtyar Rustomji Ratanji, who legally changed his name to Buck Ruxton, strangled his wife and the pretty nursemaid who saw him do it, subsequently dismembered his victims and threw the bloody fragments into a Scottish ravine known as The Devil's Beef tub (TIME, March 23), British Justice last week hanged this murderer in the courtyard of Strangeways Jail, Manchester...
...Sweet Violet," as the penny press calls her, can be counted upon to draw large crowds of gawpers who mill about, tie up traffic for hours (TIME, April 15, 1935). Usually the crowd's sympathies have been with Widow Van der Elst, but the testimony in the Buck Ruxton case was too strong even for British stomachs...
...rest was capable British police inquiry throughout the United Kingdom for citizens who had missed a pair of women. Up to this time Dr. Ruxton's neighbors had credulously accepted his casual references to Mrs. Ruxton's erratic behavior in having gone away for a visit and taken along the children's nurse, without a word to him or any of them...
During the trial there was no direct evidence against Ratanji-Ruxton because nobody had seen him kill or dismember so much as a fly. The Crown produced the patched blouse in which a faceless head had been found wrapped in The Devil's Beef Tub and asked the stepmother of Mary Jane Rogerson to comment upon it as a witness before the jury. "Yes, that is the blouse," said Mrs. Rogerson. "I can tell because I put on the patch. It was an old blouse, but I bought it at a jumble sale for Mary - she had wanted...