AGRA MURDER.
* A CALLOUS WIFE. FOUND HUSBAND HARD TO KILL. Ur.ited Prc?s Association—3j Eleetrio Teiejrraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA, December 17. At Agra the trial of Clark and Mrs Fulham for the murder of Fulham has begun. Tho prosecution stated that the woman wroto daily reports informing Clark of the effect of the poison on Fulham. In ono report she stated, "It will take a hundred years to kill him." Another letter informed Clark that her husband suspected her intimacy with him, and threatened that he would shoot hor and thon commit suicide. Again she wroto that her husband was very ill with symptoms of cholera and sho added, "they all blame the Masonic dinner, but you and I know. I cannot boar to sco his sufferings." She later wroto, "Tho powder is hard to administer, as my husband will not tako food prepared by mc." On July 2oth she determined to administer a liquid as hor husband was going to a sports mooting, "when he will have a touch of the sun, after which it will bo convenient to finish up tho dreadful business." Four dayilater sho wroto: "It is a great, disappointment, but it is evidently God's will to spare my husband's life. Had I foreseen tho trouble, I would nevei have attempted my poor husband's life." After tho failure at Meerut she wroto: "Wo will got another opportunity at Agra, where Fulham is going." When Fulham died at Agra, on October 10th, Clark certified that death was eluo to paralysis.
A CHILD'S EVIDENCE.
(Received December 19th, 12.5 a.m.) CALCUTTA, December IS. After her husband's death, one of Mrs Fulhanvs letters to Clark remarked on ''How God worked out things in a most beautiful manner to bring two loving hearts together." Fulham's ton-year-old daughter said that on tho day her father died ho told her he was going to die, and added, "God bless you." Witness saw Clark cut a white powder in somo water and charged a glass ueedlo with it. She saw him push the needle near her father's heart, arm and shoulder., Sho heard a funny gurgling sound, and then her father died. Clark returned to tho dining-room, and said to her mother, "He is gone."
AGRA MURDER.
Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14512, 19 December 1912, Page 7
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