ATA on

Mr. and Mrs. Rogerson called on Ruxton
on October Ist, when the latter told them
that his safe had been broken into and Mrs.
Ruxton and Mary had stolen £30 from it,
and that both would probably return when
the money was all gone. Again the Roger-
sons said that they were going to report the
disappearance to the police. Three days
later Ruxton reported his wife missing. It
seems that he felt some explanation to the

police was necessary to cover up the Roger- -

son’s complaint, and suggested a triangle
naming Mr. Edmondson as the third party.

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October 5th, Ruxton called at Mr.
Edmondson senior’s residence and asked
where Bobbie was. On being told that he
was in Edinburgh, he began to ask other
questions. Mr. Edmondson sensing that
there was something wrong, asked him point
blank what it was. Ruxton then broke
down and sobbed out a tale of suspicion of
his wife and Bobbie and that his wife had
gone to Edinburgh. Edmondson replied
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Dalton Square and had a heart to heart
talk with Ruxton. Bobbie Edmondson told
Ruxton that he had no idea where Mrs.
Ruxton was. On a direct question whether
he suggested that Edmondson Jr. had a
hand in Mrs. Ruxton’s departure from his
home, Ruxton replied “Oh, no, no,” and
was then warned not to make any further
suggestions along this line. Ruxton, how-
ever, did not heed this warning and made
inferences to other people that young
Edmondson had been interfering in his
affairs.

Ruxton’s next move was to write to Mrs.
Nelson, his wife’s sister at Edinburgh and
then followed up the letter with a personal
call. He saw both Mrs. Nelson and the
other sister Mrs. Trench at the latter’s
house. Asking Mrs. Nelson if she was hid-
ing his wife, she replied “Don’t you know
where she is?” and he replied “What do
you mean?” She then asked him if he had
done anything to her, probably prompted
in this remark by the publicity given to the
Moffat incident. He made a vigorous denial,
and continued to speak for several hours
about his affection for his wife, and on
leaving made a very pointed remark to Mrs.
Trench. “If anybody comes asking ques-
tions, do not answer them” He then left
for the railway station and returned to Lan-
caster, and on his arrival was met by
Inspector Clark.

The short time that Ruxton still had
before his arrest was employed in an
attempt to fabricate evidence favourable to
himself. To show the mentality of the man,
at a time when he must have known that
suspicion on the part of the police was
growing into conviction of his guilt, he was
still naive enough to expect people to lie
on his behalf.

He asked Mrs. Hampshire to burn the
blue suit. He was agitated and told her
that the police had questioned him about
Mary Rogerson. He also asked her to burn
one of the carpets from which she had been
unable to remove the blood stains. He tried
to convince a Miss Dorothy Neild, at
Anderson’s house, that he had been there
on September 19th, which was the day he
was suspected of having made one of his
charnal trips. He also tried to convince the
decorator, Mr. Eason, that an arrange-
ment had been previously made to have the
staircase redecorated. Mr. Eason replied
that while Dr. Ruxton had mentioned
something about redecorating he had said
nothing about the staircase. Then Ruxton
made another of his fatal errors. He said
“Not the staircase?” and then “Do you not

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