INDIAN MURDER TRIAL

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 532, 11 January 1913, Page 5

INDIAN MURDER TRIAL

DEATH OP FULHAM.

COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

By Tel.graDh.-Pre* Calcutta, Thursday.

The preliminary trial of Dr Clark and Mrs Pulham on the charge of murdering Mr Fulham in 1911, was concluded at Agra yesterday, both being committed for trial. . Major O'Meara, who conducted the exhumation of Mr Fulham's body, stated in evidence that the remains wete remarkably well preserved. This was possibly due to the presence of arsenic in the body. The symptoms described in Mrs Fulham's letters to Clark, witness said, were compaUblec with arsenical poisoning by small doses extending over a. long period. A mixture of atropine and cocaine would produdce symptoms of heartstroke, but Fulham's temperature was not high enough. The prosecution read a letter written by Clark to Mrß Fulham, in which he instructed the latter /to artificially raise the thermometer, so that the readings would be consistent with heartstroke.

Major O'Meara added that there was nothing in the hospital records to suggest that Fulham was suffering from paralysis or insanity. The chemist who conducted the fost-mortem examination stated that he failed to find any poißon in Fulham's remains, excepting slight traces of arsenic in one of the thigh bones.

INCRIMINATING CORRESPONDENCE.

Agra, Friday. Mrs Fulham stated that ehe waa unaware of the composition of the powders. Clarke said they would make her husband slightly ill. s The prosecution read her letter of July 11th, to the effect acquaintance with a simialr appearance in her husband when he had heat stroke and suggested the possibility of producing the same symptoms if it could be done without suspicion. The court asked Mrs Fulham to explain and she replied she would reserve her defence.

DEATH OF MRS CLARK.

CHILD'S" SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE.

Agra, Friday. In # her evidence regarding her mother's murder, Miss Clark identified. Sukhia as one of the murderers. Kathleen Fulham, aged ten, testified that the natives came to her mother's house on Sunday night, Clark brought them into the. dining room next Kathleen's bedroom. The natives said they wanted money and Clark said, "You're always wanting money.", The natives replied: "This is the last time. It will be all over to-night." Mrs Fulham said "come in the morning, or the children will be asking questions Kathleen recognised Budha's voice. She was frightened, and Went tu her mother's dressing room, and saw to men climbing the wall. Later, when sleeping in her mother's bed she heard a knock at the front door. Clark came in and told, her mother thieves had broken into his house and hurt his wife. Her mother asked what was tfie damage. Clark replied her head had been cut open and the brain exposed. The following Tuesday Sukhia came to her mother, who gave him money, saying, "Go; they're after you."