Augusta Fullam

Augusta Fullam
Born
Augusta Fairfield Goodwyn

23 June 1875 (1875-06-23)
Calcutta, India
Died28 May 1914 (1914-05-29) (aged 38)
Naini Prison, Allahabad
NationalityBritish
Known forDouble murderer
SpouseLieutenant Edward Fullam
PartnerHenry Lovell William Clark
Children4

Augusta Fairfield Fullam (1875 – 1914) was a British Raj woman implicated in a double murder in Agra in India. Fullam was born in Calcutta in 1875 and died in Allahabad in 1914.[1] She was the wife of Lieutenant Edward McKeon Fullam and lived in Calcutta, Barrackpore, Meerut and finally Agra (India). She came to notice when she was interviewed in connection with Dr Henry Clark whose wife had been hacked to death on 17 November 1912. She and Clark had been lovers since 1909, and some 400 letters Augusta had written, swiftly discovered by the police, provided unarguable evidence of conspiracy to murder their respective spouses. On 11 October 1912, days after the Fullams moved to Agra, Edward Fullam had died, supposedly of heatstroke and “general paralysis of insanity” (tertiary syphilis), but as later post mortem revealed, of arsenic poisoning.,[2] The definitive account of Augusta Fullam's life and the double murder of which she and her lover were convicted is Molly Whittington-Egan's Khaki Mischief (1990)[3]

  1. ^ Michael Farrell (24 June 2017). Criminology of Homicidal Poisoning: Offenders, Victims and Detection. Springer. pp. 183–. ISBN 978-3-319-59117-9.
  2. ^ Jay Robert Nash (1 November 1986). Look for the Woman: A Narrative Encyclopedia of Female Prisoners, Kidnappers, Thieves, Extortionists, Terrorists, Swindlers and Spies from Elizabethan Times to the Present. M. Evans. pp. 163–164. ISBN 978-1-4617-4772-7.
  3. ^ Whittington-Egan, Molly (1990). Khaki Mischief: The Agra Murder Case. London: Souvenir Press Ltd. ISBN 0285-629883.