INDIAN TRAGEDY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 302, 18 December 1912, Page 5

INDIAN TRAGEDY.

INCRIMINATING MITERS.

"A GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT."

WHEN FERST ATTEMPT FAILED.

CALCUTTA, December 17. - 1 he trial of n- ru- i , , Fulham on the charge of th *"*« Mr 6, «•- late Mr K«lh J[, oi commenced at Awra. as been wme E CU r i0 ° n that the ™*™ husbldL" bemg admin -tered to" her staged one it of -„ thC , reports Mrs F«»»am Ml him." t? c a hundred years to that W?", I " t , ter S ' ,e inf Clarke that her husoand suspected her intimacy "l'"; and that be had threatened to shoot her and to then commit suicide. On another occasion Mrs Fulharn wrote: My husband is very ill. He has symptoms of cholera. They all blame the -Masonic dinner, but you and I know. I cannot bear to see his sufferings." In a later report she wrote: "The powder is hard to administer, as mv husband will not take food prepared by mc." On July 25 she determined to administer the poison in a liquid, as her husband was going to a sports meeting, when he would have a touch of the sun, after which, she added, "it will he convenient to finish up the dreadful business." Four days later the woman wrote: "A great disappointment. Evidently it is God's will to spare my husband's life. Had I foreseen the trouble I would never have attempted my poor husband's life." After the failure of the attempt to kill her husband at Meerut Mrs Fulharn wrote: "We will get another opportunity at Agra, where Fulham is going." When Fulham died at Agra on October 10 Clarke certified that death was due to paralysis-