THE AGRA TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 202, 15 January 1913, Page 8

THE AGRA TRAGEDY.

MRS. FULHAM'S LETTERS. When the trial opened last month the prosecution stated that Mrs. Fulham wrote daily reports, in which she informed Clark of the ett'e'et of the poison which was being administered to her husband. In one of the reports,. Mrs. Kulham stated: "It will take a hundred years to kill him." In another letter she informed Clark that her husband suspected her intimacy with him, and that he had threatened to shoot her, and then oommit suicide. On another occasion she wrote: "My husband is very ill. He has symptoms of cholera. They all blame, the Masonic dinner, but yon and I know. 1 cannot bear to see his sufferings." In a later report she said: •'The powder is hard to administer as my husband will not take food prepared by me."

On July 25 she determined to administer the poison in a liquid, as her husband was going to a sports meeting, when he would have a touch of the sun, after which, she added, "it will be convenient to finish up the dreadful business." Four days later the woman wrote: "A great disappointment. Evidently it is God's will to spare my husband's 1 ' life. Had I foreseen the trouble I would never have attempted my poor ( husband's life." After the failure of the attempt to kill her husband at Meerut, Mrs. Fulham wrote: "We will get another opportunity at Agra, where Fulham is going." When Fulham died at Agra on October 10, Clark certified that death was due to paralysis. After her husband's death Mrs. Fulham wrote to Clark, remarking that God had worked out things in a most beautiful manner, bringing two loving hearts together. Fulham's ten-year-old daughter stated that on the day her father died he told her he was going, and added, "God bless you." She saw Clark put a white powder in water, then fill a glass needle, and he seemed to push the needle near i her father's heart, arm. and shoulder i Witness heard" a funny gurgling, and | then her father died. Clark then returned to the dining-room, and said to her mother, "Gone."