A MODERN LUCRETIA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1627, 19 December 1912, Page 5

A MODERN LUCRETIA.

INDIAN MURDER TRIAL,

EXTRAORDINARY LETTERS.

DIARY OF A POISONER.

By Telegraph—Frees Assooiatloa-Oopyright

Calcutta, December 17. The trial at. Agra of Mr. Clark, of tho Indian Medical Department at Allahabad, and Mrs. I'ulham, charged with having murdered tho letter's husband, has commenced.

It was stated that Mrs. Fulham wroto daily reports informing Clnrk of the e!.. feet of the poison on her husband. In one she stated "it'will take a hundred years to kill him." .

Another letter informed Clark that her husband suspected her of intimacy witii him, and had threatened to shoot hor and thea commit euicide. Again sho wrote: "My husband is very ill. Tho symptoms are of cholera. All blame the Masonic dinner, but you and I know, I cannot bear to see- his sufferings."

Later sho wrote: "The powder is hard to administer, as my husband does not take food prepared by me."

On July 25 sho said sho determined to administer the powder in liquor, and as her husband was going to some sports, "he will have- a touch of the sun, after which it will be convenient to finish up tho dreadful business."

Four days later sho wrote: "A great disappointment. Evidently the gods will spare my husband's life. Had I foreseen this trouble I would never have attempted my poor husband's life."

After failure at Meerut, she wrote: "Wβ will get another opportunity at Agra" (where Fulham was going).

When Fulhani died at Agra on October 10, Clark certified that death was due to paralysis. A SINISTER BLASPHEMY. (Rec. December 19, 0.5 a.m.) , Calcutta, December 18. After the husband's death, one of his wife's letters to Clark remarked on "how God worked out things in tho most beautiful manner to bring two loving hearts together." Mrs. Fulham's ten-year-old daughter snid in her evidence that the day hor father died he told hor that he was going, and added: "God bless you." Witness saw Clark put a white powder in water, and charge a glass needle. He seemed to push the needle near her father's heart, arm, and shoulder. She heard a funny gurgling, and then her father died. Clark returned to the din-ing-room, and said to. her mother: "Gone!" ■