AGRA MURDER TRIAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1653, 21 January 1913, Page 5

AGRA MURDER TRIAL.

MAGISTRATE'S COMMENTS,

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright I • Calcutta, January 19. . Tho .order for tho committal of Clark, (lately,of tho Allahabad Medical Department), Mrs. Fulham, and tho native servant on .the .charge of having murdered Mrs.; Clark and Mr. Fulham, emphasises that' Clark'and Mrs. Fulham arranged the details of tho attack on Mrs. Clark, ; and ■ that Clark's. return to hia house preceded the. murder. Ho had previously arranged to visit Mrs. Fulham's house, to which, lie went immediately after the murder.

■ The magistrate adds that Clark, Mr. Fulham,' and Budhu were not charged regarding.tho poisoijihg, despite good prima facio evidence as, to poison. It was doubtful whether tho point could be. tried jointly With tho circumstances leading to the actual attack.

| .Tho trial arises cut of the following I circumstancesi: Mrs. Clark was found fatally wounded. Her husband informed | tho authorities that she had boen tilled By a native. Certain correspondence between i.'eutennnt Clark and Mrs. Fulham was discovered by tho police, and both prisoners woro arrested on November 29. inis corresponderico was alleged to con- : noct them with the deaths of both Mrs, Hark and Mr. 1 Fulham and to show that arsenic was administered to Mr. Fulham. 4lr - Fmham s body was exhumed for medical examination. . Tho dramatis persona© m the trial arc as follow:— Tho Victims. Mr.. Fulham,—An assistant examiner of military accounts, who died in suspicious circumstances in October. "Wife of Licutonant Clark, an officer of tho Indian Subordinate Medical Department. She was found badly wounded in her bedroom in their bungalow at Agra during Iho night of November 17, and died of her injuries. .Like lier husband, she was a Eurasian; that is, of mixed European and Asiatic descent.

Tho .Accused. Lieut.Clark.—Accused of tho minder of both his wife and Mr. Fulham. • Mrs. Fulham,—Accused, with Lieutenant Clark, of tho 'murder of her husband ■ and Mrs. Clark. Budhu.—A native servant at ono time engaged- by Lieutenant Clark.