A STRANGE STORY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1624, 16 December 1912, Page 7

A STRANGE STORY.

INDIAN MURDER TRIAL. ' Bj Tolegranh—Proia Aosoolatlon-OoDjrlßht (Rec. December 15, 5.5 p.m.) Calcutta, December U. Evidence of an extraordinary character continues to bo given at tho trial at Agra of Mr. Clark, of tho Medical Department at Allahabad, Mrs. Fulham, and a native servant namod Budhu, who aro charged with having murdered Mrs. Clark. Tho prosecution read a letter written by Mrs.- Fulham to Clark in April, 1911. Tho letter ran: "It was very thoughtfulof you sending more powders, as only three aro left. I don't think they are having any effect. You say you cannot administer them regularly, then what is the use of them ? Darling, she will need much more than that. Tell mo plainly what you think." Walter Clark, Clark's second son, narrated tho circumstances of his mother's poisoning when tho prisoner Budhu was the only cook. The doctors testified that Mrs. Clark had received terrible blows from a bludgeon. A 6ck>ol-felW with Clark's son, named Joseph, deposed that Clark had once been reading in a newspaper about a poisoned lover, and said he had given his wife a dose, but she had proved poisonproof. Joseph asked Mrs. Clark for an interview in order to warn her, but bis courage failed him.