Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1913-03-07 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

AURA MURDER TRIAL.  DRAMATIC ENDING.  LIEUT. CLARK'S CONFESSION.  One of the most deliberate and fiendish crimes ever conceived was brought home to its authors on Saturday, when, at Allahsbad, Lieutenant H. L. W. Clark, a Eurasian, and his confederate, Mrs. Fulham, were convicted respectively of the murder and the attempted murder of Mr. Fulham, the woman's husband.  The trial ended dramatically. Lieutenant Clark eonfessed that he killed Mr. Fulham in, October, 1911, by giving him antipyrin. He took all the blame upon himself, declaring 1',.,111a.ui was 11,4. 'ule. jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty against both the accused on both charges. The Chief Justine deferred sentence. The following were the chief personages in this drama of illegitimate love and murderous intrigue: Lieutenant Clark, attached to the Indian Subordinate Medical Department, and of mixed parentage. Mrs. Clark, his wife, formerly a nurse at the Calcutta Medical Hospital. Mr. Fulham, assistant examiner of military accounts. Mrs. Fulham his wife.  Buddha, RaMlal, and Sukhia, natives. Mr. Fulham died in October at Agra, after suffering from a mysterious illness for months. Mrs. Clark was found dying in her bungalow on November 17th, from terrible wounds inflicted with a knife.  The latter crime fastened suspicion upon Clark and Mrs. Fulham, and both were arrested, together with Buddha. Proceedings were opened in the Lower Court at Agra, and astounding revelations were made, the following facts being brought to light. In a steel trunk belonging to Clark were found a number of neatly-docketed letters from the woman Fulham, in which she reported in cold blood, from time to time, upon the effects of the poison she was administering in progressive doses to her husband, on the advice of her lover. Some of her observations were as follows: I gave half a tonic powder daily in my hueband's sanatogen because it is also a white powder. He mixes it up quite unsuspectingly. You must not attempt to free yourself so soon as next month, as it would look very bad in the eyes of the world. You have grown-up children who might notice your anxiety to become a widower as soon as Mrs. Fulham is alone in the world. I will wait for you and will marry nobody else. I have fully made up. my mind to ad.. . .  minister the liquid at dinner on July 27th in mulligatawny soup, which will disguise the taste. Thursday will be the best day to finish this dreadful business. Send me the liquid after disguising its taste, and trust me to do the rest. I have bed a great disappointment, but it is evidently God's will to spare hubby's life. He is not going to die. This last attempt has been a dead failure. They have diagnosed hubby's case as heat-stroke. Nobody has the slightest suspicion of the truth. If only I had foreseen all this trouble I should never have made such an attempt on his poor life, which has resulted in nothing but a cruel disappointment and the wrecking of his whole nervous system. Hubby is getting better, and you must re.  eancile yourself to losing me. In another letter Mrs. Fulham blasphemously invoked the name of the Deity, saying how " God had worked out things in the most beautiful manner to bring two loving hearts together." An extraordinary variety of poisons and drugs ordered from chemists by Clark included the following: Arsenic, atropine, cocaine, gelaemium, strychnine. Clark asked Dr. Gore, a bacteriologist, for some cholera germs to experiment on animals. Dr. Gore did not suspect Clark's true purpose, but, not deeming it wise to place such dangerous culture in his possession, gave him some harmless water microbes.