Collection of Photographs relating to Rex v. Ruxton 1935 1935-1936

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Collection of Photographs relating to Rex v. Ruxton 1935 1935-1936

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1 envelope folder containing circa 43 photographs and miscellaneous tracing paper sketches.

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Edinburgh University Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6294938

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Glaister, John, 1892-1971

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Brash, James Couper

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In 1935, Dr. Buck Ruxton of Dalton Square in Lancaster, England, murdered his wife Isabella and their house-maid Mary Jane Rogerson, cut up their bodies and deposited them in the River Nith, south-west Scotland. When the bodies were found at the 'Devil's Beeftub', near Moffat, they were in an advanced state of decomposition. The great John Glaister Jnr. (1892-1971) Professor of Forensic Medicine at Glasgow University and James Couper Brash (1886-1958) Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University...

Brash, J. C. (James Couper), 1886-

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