A MYSTERIOUS CRIME.
CIVIL SERVANT AND WIDOW ON TRIAL. .' i By TeleEraDh—Press Association—Copyrignt (Rec. December 10, 9 p.m.) Calcutta, December 10. The trial of Mr. Clark, of the Medical Department at Allahabad, Mrs. Fulham, and a native servant named Budhu, on a charge of murdering-Mrs. Clark, has been opened. Mrs. Clark was found dead with her head shattered.. It was at first supposed that the murder was the act of burglars, but subsequently the husband and a widow, Mrs. Fulham, with a native servant, were arrested.
Major Buchanan gave evidence that Clark's daughter told him that she was awakened by her mother's screams, and saw two natives in her mother's room. One flourished a bludgeon. Tho daughter fled, and did not see her mother struck.
Other evidence was given that Clark was in the habit of dining with Mrs. Fulham, and did 60 on the night of the murder, but told the police that he was at. the railway station meeting a friend,' and on returning found the bungalow locked and his wife unconscious. He added, that his wife' was bad tempered, and' had constantly abused the servants.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1620, 11 December 1912, Page 7
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188A MYSTERIOUS CRIME. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1620, 11 December 1912, Page 7
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