POISONING AS AN ART.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1644, 10 January 1913, Page 5

POISONING AS AN ART.

AQRA MURDER TRIAL, ALLEGED PLAN TO MISLEAD THE DOCTORS. t ■ , v.. -£-— • ' By Telegraph-Presß Assooiation-Oopy'righ l (Rec. January 9, 8.20 p.m.) . . Calcutta, January 9. At' the Agra murder trial further evi i dcnce lias been given regarding the deatl ■ of Mr. Fulham, whom Clark (lately ar officer of the Medical Department al 1 Allahabad) and Mrs. Fulham aro accuset I of having poisoned. Tho two prisoners together with a native servant named ■ Budhu; are also charged with the murdei 1 of Clark's wife. . • ' Major O'Meara, who conducted th< 1 exhumation of the body of Fulham, stated in' his evidenoe that the remains wew • remarkably well preserved, and that this ■ might possibly be duo to the presence of ■ arsenic. The'symptoms described in Mrs 1 Fulham's letters would bB compatibl* ■ with arsenical poisoning by small doses ' administered over a long period. A mix 1 ture of -atrophino and cocaine would pro duce symptoms of heart-stroke, but Ful 1 ham'B .temperaturo would not be higt - enough. ■ ; ■ The prosecution read a letter 7 from 1 Clark instructing Mrs. Fulham artificiallj , to raise the thermometer 60 that th< 1 readings would be consistent! for heart- , stroko. ' ■ . , , Major O'Meara added th'at there was no thing in the hospital reoords to suggesl that 'Fulham was buffering from general paralysis of -tho insane. ( ; A ohemist who conducted a post-mbrieni , exainination gave. evidenco that he ' had I failed ,to fiild poisons in the body ol ■ Fulham, excepting a slight amount'of areenic in the thighbono.