Evening star., 1936-05-12
SLAYER
DIES ON GALLONS
DR.. Ruxton Hanged for Bru-
tai Crime-Protest Against
Execution Fails.
Nv the Associated Press.

ey the Associated Press.
MANCHESTER, England, May 12.-
Or, Buck Ruxton died on the galloWS
of the Strangeways Jail today for the
Devils Beeftub" slayings OF his wife
and q nursemaid.
Mrs. Violet Van Der Elst militant
campaigner against capital punish
ment, encountered hostile reception
from a large crowd outside the jail
while the dark, skinned Parsee
physIcian was hanged for England's
most gruesome crime since the turn
Of the century.
Mrs. Van Der Elst, determined to
protest against the execution, drove up
to the Jail in a limousine, accom-
panied by two loudspeaker vans. Po-
lice turned back the trucks, not per-
mitting them to approach the jail.
Crowd About Car.
The crowd pressed about the limou-
sine. which drove within &c yards OF
the main gates, shouting, Jeering ana
hooting.
The 36-year-old DR.. Ruxton was
hanged shortly after am. l3 am"
Eastern standard time).
Promptly Is minutes later black
flag was run up in the prison tower
IN evidence that British justice had
exacted its penalty for the murder OF
: Mrs. Isabella Ruxton and the killing
and dismemberment of her maid, May
Jane Rogerson, sometime last Septem-
Der.
Actually, Dr. Ruxton, who deserted
his Parsee wife in India In 1873 10
come to England, was convicted and
hanged only for the Staying OF the
woman he married while studying In
Edinburgh.
The crown prosecution charged, how
ever, that he also killed Miss Rogerson,
slashed her to bits and cast both bodies
IN the Devils Beeftub" ravine near
Moffat. on the Scottish border.
Attempts to Lead Hymns.
As the hour for the execution struck
Mrs. Van Der Elst attempted to lead
the crowd outside the Jail walls in
singing Abide With Me" and Nearer
My God to Thee
The blond opponent of the death
penalty arrived at the Jail an hour
before the hanging to conduct her
anti-capital punishment demonstra-
tion.
How would you like your daughter
cut up?" one woman shouted at Mrs
Van Der Elst.
A man. motioning at the expensive
automobile of the wealthy London
woman, cried: Pawn it, give it to the
poor"
Mrs. Van Der Elst left her car and
started to demonstrate with police:
SIT is a terrible thing for this civiliza-
lion to allow man to be hanged"
Dozens of women and girls stood
about the limousine, laughing and
haunting the leader of the attempted
demonstration.
{ Persuaded to Move Car.
A quarter of an hour before the exc
fution police persuaded Mrs. Van Der
Elst to move her automobile to side
street. where number of persons fol-
lowed, continuing their outcries.
At the moment of DR.. Ruxton's death
Mrs. Van Der Elst called through one
of her loud speakers:
will the gentlemen in the crowd
please bare their headS?"
: A number of women wept. but only
a few men removed their hats. Some
of the crowd later joined in singing
the hymns, and some kneeled in prayer
7 Mrs. Van Der Fists plans to send a
squadron of 10 airplaneS over the jail,
dropping thousands of pamphlets
against capital punishment, were not
carried out Police forbade the drop
ping of pamphlets, and the planes
which we're expected nevertheless to
dip in salute over the Jail, failed to
appear.
; The crowd began to leave the Jail
soon after the keepers posted formal
notice of the hanging on the prison
gates.
Perfect Crime" Fooled.
The man whose perfect crime" was
foiled through painstaking scientific
detection which included more than
1000 tests of the bodies, left three
children In England, now wards Of the
state.
The children, Elizabeth, 6; Diana, 4
and Billy, 3, now in state institution
were told their father and mother had
gone away for visit.
DR.. Ruxton was understood to have
made will referring to the future OF
his children and expressing hope that
his son would, like himself, become a
physician.
Ruxton's aged mother, brother
and sister live in Bombay, where the
physician was known as BakhtyaI
Rustomji Ruttonju Hakim.
The body of Ruxton who was ar
rested october 13 and convicted March
13, will be buried in shallow quick
lime grave in the strangeways Jail
yard.