“I KILLED HER”

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19888, 18 May 1936, Page 7

“I KILLED HER”

CONFESSION OF MURDER. IN « FIT OF TCMPIft LETTER SENT TO NEWSPAPER. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received May 18. 11. 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 17. Dr. Ruxton who was recently hanged for murder, left a letter to be opened after his death. The letter states:— “ I killed Mrs Ruxton In a fit of temper because I thought she had been with e. man. I was mad at the time. Mary Rogerson, the maid, was present, and I had to kill her.” The News of the World, in publishing lids remarkable confession In facsimile in Ruxton’s bold handwriting. explains that Ruxton on the night of October 12 was taken to the police station. He received a friend in his cell on October 14 and gave him a sealed envelope, saying that it was not to be opened until after ills death, but if lie was acquitted, as lie thought he must be, it was to be returned to him. Expected to be Acquitted. The friend locked the envelope in Id* safe and Dr. Ruxton during tlie trial spoke lo his friend and told him that ‘‘in the impossible event of a verdict of guilty” tlie envelope was to be handed unopened to the editor of the News of the World. The friend complied half-an-hour after the execution on May 12. The News of the World adds: “ Even to his own solicitor Dr. Ruxton protested his innocence to ttie last, yet lie knew’ from October 14 that the confession was in the enelope.”