THE TRIAL OF DR. CLARK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 96, 18 December 1912, Page 6

THE TRIAL OF DR. CLARK.

A WIFE’S MACHINATIONS

COLD-BLOODED FACTS

(Received 9.50 a.m.) Calcutta, December 17

At Agra the trial of Dr. Clark and Mrs. Fulham for the murder of Mr. Fulham has begun.

The prosecution stated that the woman wrote daily reports, informing Clark of the effect of the poison on Fulham. In one report she stated: “It will take a hundred years to kill him,” and in another letter she informed Clark that her husband suspected her of intimacy with him, and threatened he would shoot her and then commit suicide. Again, she wrote that her husband was very ill with symptoms of cholera, and she added: “They all blame the Masonic dinner, but you and I know. I cannot bear to see his sufferings.” She later wrote: “The powder is hard to administer, as my husband will not take food prepared by me.” On July 25th she determined to administer the liquid, as her husband was going to the sports, “when he will have a touch of the sun, after which it will be convenient to finish up the dreadful business.”

Four days later she wrote: “I have had a great disappointment. Evidently it is God’s will to spare my husband’s life. Had 1 foreseen the trouble I would never have attempted my poor husband’s life.” After the failure at Meerat she wrote; “We will get another opportunity at Agra, where Fulham is going.” When 1* ulh<fm died at Agra on October 10th, Clark certified as to the cause of death being from paralysis.