THE MURDER CASE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 10 January 1913, Page 5

THE MURDER CASE

CABLEJNTEWS (United Press Association—By Elec trie Telegraph — Copyright.)

CONTINUATION OF TRIAL. EVIDENCE CONCERNING FUL HAM'S HEALTH. (Received Last Night, 5.20 o'clock.) AGRA, January W. At the resumed trial of Mr Clark and Mrs Fulham on a charge of murder, Major O'Meara, who conducted the exhumation of the body of Mi FuHia.ni, deposed that the remains wore remarkably well preserved, which wa,s possibly due to the presence of arsenic. The symptoms described in Mrs Fulham's letters were compatible Avith arsenical poisoninp administered in small doses over a lone period. A mixture of atrophine and cocaine would produce symptoms of heat-stroke, but Fulham's temperature was not high enough. The prosecution read a letter from Clark, instructing Mrs Fulham to artificially raise the thermometer, so that the readings would lie consistent with the heat-stroke. Major O'Meara. continuing, stated that there was nothing in the .hospital records to suggest that Fulham had been suffering from paralysis. The chemist who conducted fhm post mortem deposed that he failed to find any poison in Fulham's bodv. oxconfW .o slight trace of arsenic in the thigh-bone.