That Dr Clarke was especially vile, getting his wife murdered for payment. The poor teenage daughter witnessing it. Very powerfully retold thank you Brief Case
The ending was very surprising in that this little boy who was rejected and sent to an orphanage ended up serving with distinction and raising his own family never knowing who his parents were in Australia. He was better off not knowing - especially about the scoundrel his father was.
The most shocking thing about this case is the fact that the orphan child was rejected by both sets of grandparents. I’m glad that he managed to live a long and happy life.
Sounds like my mom she was very abusive towards my 3rd nephew he was a child born to my 2nd brother in law, and according to her he didn't match the set I went WTF he's a child and I caught her beating him, his dad came close to doing the same to her, but he's a real man and didn't hit even creatures like her she's was nothing but a narcissist and should be among the killer grandma I watched a video about three you know one who turned her neighbor's into soap, and cakes, in Italy and the other two one who was the giggling granny and the other one was in charge of a border house that killed them to keep their benefits, sick sick and really sick.
When I was 6 in the 60s , the kids teased you if your parents were divorced, if you were mixed, kids rarely were told they didn’t have a dad they were told their dad died in Vietnam. So I can understand the prejudice back then.
It's sad that Augusta killed her husband for someone who thought entirely too much of himself, and probably didn't even care for her at all. For them to keep all the letters outlining their plans was just plain stupid. I feel sorry for their spouses and kids. I'm glad their son had a good life. In his case, I think it's probably a good thing he never knew who his parents were.
Unbelievable the doctor asked numerous people to get involved in murder. Even more incredible that some complied. Blueprint for disaster. Good story. Thanks BC!
Augusta and Henry deserved each other. They were despicable and not the brightest for sure. So horrible what the poor daughter had to witness. I’m glad the son was able to make a life for himself, he was better off never knowing who his biological parents were.
Thank you ,BC,for the well researced article on the 2 unfaithful and cruel ,soul_less people who had no qualms in murderimg their spouces and the other parent of their children .You have taken great pain to reproduce the pictures of the bygone days of the British Raj and have given us the background and history of the cities in Northern India .I noticed the bullock cards that were the main mode of transport and the attire of the indians and the British .Well done and thank you .
I'm fascinated by the strange world of British colonialism. My grandmother's sister's husband was murdered in West Africa where he worked as a surveyor for the government. Ground glass was put in his food, which slowly tore through his digestive system. He was sent back to England to die. He was a large, strapping man, but by the time he reached the port of Liverpool, his wife could carry him off the ship. It was never determined who was behind this.
I don't mean to be rude at all but it's impossible to die of ingesting ground up glass. It's either big and sharp enough to feel immediately and not be swallowed or it's fine enough to pass through. I obviously can't say if it was intentional poisoning or a (tropical) disease but it must be one of those
You really outdid yourself this week, man! I was enthralled by the case, the details are so wild that it's not hard to see why it was in all the papers back then. But the pictures were absolutely mesmerizing! I actually had to back up 30 seconds two separate times, because I had missed what you were saying. Thanks so much!!
These stories just can't be made up! These two lovers were obviously not very bright. They both got what they deserved in the end, but their poor children who had to live through all of this...Thank you BC & Happy Monday (my Friday!😁)
It’s really fascinating the cruel, evil, stupid things people do in the name of ‘love’. These two were particularly idiotic - witnesses everywhere, putting their plans in letters , keeping the letters in a box 🙄. If this were fiction it would be unbelievable!! Thank you BriefCase for your amazing research and narration of this one. I’m amazed at the cases you manage to unearth, and the details you manage to find. Have a great week - goodnight from Australia 🇦🇺
thank you for this very interesting case. I truly valued the tidbit at the end about their child William Hope. How awful he was rejected by his families. very cold. it is details like this that make your recounting so interesting. I never know what I'll learn next.
Wow, what a sensational case. It is undeniable that they were both guilty. But it is almost incredible to what lengths both of them went, with the idea of one day being together. So, it is wrong what they did, but the outcome is also sad. I guess it is a good thing that their son lived without his parents families, as they would have resented him.
Woah! What a story!! What fools do, is incredible! My only concerns are to the children, so very sad. I'm glad the last born lived on....maybe good he didn't know the truth. Great story telling, as always
Such a shame that the son she had in prison was rejected by the families on both sides, as if it was HIS fault. I'm glad he was able to enjoy a good life regardless.
Very glad to hear that the son she had in prison went on to have a successful career and establish his own family. I hope that he was happy and treated his loved ones with kindness. Many people who grow up in orphanages or foster care systems struggle and suffer their entire lives. Some people who come from abusive / criminal families become abusers themselves (roughly 1/3), while many of the remainder enter relationships as adults where they continue to be victimized and abused. Only a few are able to process their trauma and learn how to have healthy relationships. It should be celebrated when someone breaks the cycle of abuse. It is a hard cycle to break.
I nearly spit out my coffee when I heard that the cook who warned Louisa that Henry wanted to poison her food left her employment (sacked?) and Henry was apparently left off the hook. Glad their child eventually had his own family and found happiness in Australia. Thank you Brief Case for another fascinating story, well researched and told in great detail. I'll be back next Monday.
Even if she believed the cook, there's nothing to do. Divorce is a no-no and "all you have" as evidence is the word of a "coloured" cook. Especially in India, social class mattered
Hi BC , I feel so sorry for those children who had to witness that and her son , although I can’t help but think of the stupidity of these two keeping those letters. They got what they deserved…. Have a great week BC and all….
Glad their son at least made it to a (hopefully) uneventful life with his own family. Not knowing the details about his parents was, probably, not for the worst.
What a story! Henry and Augusta really thought they'd get away with it.. 😏 "An improper relationship!" 😮 Words befitting of a bygone era! Imagine being given a stay of execution due to being pregnant.. but in the end justice prevailed! Thanks, BC💼 and happy Monday to everyone 🙋🏻♀️
@@cautionTosser Absolutely! I was just saying, imagine the scenario.. the wicked woman would have been relieved to have had her death sentence suspended, but in the end justice prevailed anyway! She died a year after giving birth.. yes, to her *innocent* child..
It's so sad that their poor child, through no fault of his own, was rejected by the families and ended up in an orphanage. I hope he had a really good life once he was an adult.
Hey BC and cat companion. I started watching just after you uploaded but was sidetracked by a phone call. Well, Augusta and Henry made quite the couple, didn't they? And they did everything right. They made themselves well known, they tried to involve others in their plans and they wrote everything down. I'm amazed they ever got caught. 🤔🤦🤦♂🤦♀ Have a fantastic week guys. 👍
But he went from the orphanage to have a "distinguished career in the Navy" and moved to a different country to establish his own family. We can't know if he was a happy person or if he was kind to his family, but it sounds like he achieved success in life. Much more success than you might expect of an orphan back then. I come from a family of abusers and criminals, and my mom broke that cycle by cutting off contact with her entire family. But they try to pull us back in. I also have friends who grew up in modern foster care systems. They went in healthy and came out physically/psychologically disabled. I am very familiar with the cycle of abuse and how hard it is to escape an abusive / criminal family or system The son's story sounds like a success story to me. Much better to be an orphan than be raised by abusers. He escaped the cycle.
Welp, seems like sex or money back in the day got you swinging at the end of a rope. It amazes me every day how people do the dumbest things. Another great story!!
Hello BC. Wow! this was an incredible story along with wonderful photos of the period. Augusta could have had a wonderful life. She was mesmerized by Henry. Even though none of the families wanted baby William Hope: how incredible that life took care of him for not knowing who his biological parents were. He might have gone on wanting to know, but it was best not. Rest in Peace Edward Fulham and Louisa Clark. Great week BC and faithful listeners. Elizabeth C.
Off topic, but one divorce for every 450 marriages is a higher rate for that period than I would have expected. I wonder how many of those were ones where the wife was committed to an asylum whilst sane? Doctors could be bribed to declare someone insane. There were private asylums where again bribery was used to declare them incurable, and these were profit driven anyway. They didn't *want* to cure too many people. If the husband divorced for adultery or desertion he appeared a cuckold and lost respect, whilst cruelty would certainly also be another humiliating and emasculating reason. I have read that if the wife did commit adultery or deserted her husband it was common for doctors to agree they were insane or nymphomaniacs. Nymphomania was diagnosed as a form of insanity anyway, and you could be called that just for wanting any other man than your husband! Even if a man was prepared to be emasculated, what if the wife was faithful, as most were? You needed witnesses to bring a charge of adultery. Fun fact ...adultery used to be called criminal conversation!!
Another outstanding case your attention to detail is second to none, thank you for all of the hard work you put into bringing these cases to life. I ñow have my whole family watching as well as we are all avid history buffs x
I can agree that the difficulty of obtaining a divorce in the early 20th century led to a great deal of misery. However, while divorce was almost impossible to obtain, a change of identity was not. If you didn't have a criminal record, your fingerprints weren't going to be on file. They didn't know about DNA. Unless you were suspected of committing murder or stealing a really large amount of money, chances were the authorities wouldn't put all that much effort in to go after you. Documents were frequently hand written and not that hard to forge. A lot of the time documents simply weren't required, so you didn't even have to bother trying to forge them. Members of the British community in India would have been able to identify each other - so that Clark and Fullam would have had difficulties trying to claim they were (say) English or Australian. However, if the British community in India were anything like the British community in Argentina, it would have been fractured along social, ethnic and religious lines. A Protestant member of that community would typically not have a lot to do with a Catholic and vice versa. Working class members typically would not be on first name terms with middle class members. People with English backgrounds didn't necessarily associate with those with Irish backgrounds, etc, etc. They could have used those fractures to create a little wiggle room if they encountered other members from the British community in India. So, if they'd decided to elope together, they had a number of different options: go to a big city such as London or New York where there are so many people with varied backgrounds that they are not going to stand out or go to an isolated area where nosey officials are thin on the ground. As a doctor, Clark had a number of options for earning a living (assuming that continuing to practise medicine while changing his identity was too big a hurdle to cross). I'm not sure that pharmacists were actually required to be trained and licenced at that stage - so that would have been one possibility. He could have played on the Indian thing and claimed that he was some sort of traditional Indian doctor. He could have gone for something like being a herbalist.
It was a mercy that William Hope remained ignorant of his origins. I'm sure it would have been a terrible burden to shoulder, both personally, and in how he was perceived and treated by others.
Hey BC!!! Just caught u! Glad I put my phone on charge and thought “I know I’ll have RUclips on the in background whilst I’m doing my chores!”… still no new four paws… sigh… I’m chomping at the bit now but 🤷🏻♀️ so for now I’m still sporting ‘Labrador lady’ as my sign in.. 😢
I imagine that, because she was older than him, she saw herself as the dominant one in the marriage, and bossed him around. Her staying with him was perhaps to taunt/annoy/challenge him, as if she said: "I DARE you to try and kill me!" or "Just you wait: I'll outlive you!"
Was it possible for the press to sensationalise this story? It’s truly terrible. I feel so sorry for the unfortunate Edward, poisoning is an agonising way to die. Louisa also didn’t deserve her fate. I hope their children were able to have as happy lives as possible. I can’t help wondering if these two had been more discreet and escaped justice how long would it have been before Clark tired of Augusta.
This case was a goodone, but also sad. Sad because how both Augusta and the doctor felt towards their spouses. I didn't like either of them. So glad the villain doctor snd the guys he paid to kill his wife were caught. They hot what they deserved. Except i was hoping that she would have gotten death as well. Great job, Briefcase. Your amazing
these two have to be the dumbest murderers ever....writing letters about how to go about it, and KEEPING them.....great as always, BC...pet briefcat for me.
They were equally arrogant, ignorant & evil-ant😁. Seriously tho they didn't even try a little bit to hide any of it! Wow! Ty as always! Absolutely topping my dear! VWD! 👏👍
Had their plans been successful, l doubt that they would have been happy together. Not because of guilt, but because Augusta would have realized he was passionately in love with someone else...........himself !
Excellent video as always. I am glad the little boy never learned who his parents were. It would have been a massive blow to him to find out that both his parents were murderers.
While "Sinister" and "Tragic" are somewhat common words found in the Brief Case titles, we have to sit back as we go to May 2, 2022 for the last pairing of these two words, when we had the "Tragic & Sinister Case of Mary Stannard".
Excellent job. I was surprised that Augusta had anything to do with the death. I thought he would do it for her. They so deserved everything that they got. Some people want to be with thier lovers so bad. I don't think I believe their stories of thier marriages. Another great case. I so love you! Until the next....Brief...case.
Even a hundred years ago murderers were plainly stupid. Keeping letters detailing how they were planning to kill their spouses !! Are you kidding me ?? Excellent video.
Thank God for the narcissist's arrogance...almost makes the authorities job too easy. There can be no other explanation why this type of murderer often leaves a paper trail directly to them.
In that era,and even today up until the 60's,the scandal of the illegitimate bastard was a fate worse than death.Couple that with marital infidelity and murder and the scandal would ruin the grandparents The child would also be branded as a bastard and shunned.The church would shun them all as well and the child could not be baptized. In many cases if the grandparents were not too advanced in age they would pretend that the woman got pregnant and raise their grandchild as their own.They would have difficulty pulling that off with the publicity of the case. Things are so different today.There is no stigma in illegitimate children.I was adopted at birth and used DNA to find my biological parents.My father was a suspected child murderer.Didn't devastate me a bit.Just glad I dodged that bullet and that the truth was out and I didnt havecto live with all the lies.
Certainly a very sinister case, though all the guilty parties got what they deserved. The only question I have is why wasn’t Edward immediately arrested once it was discovered that he had attempted to poison his wife with arsenic?
I've got no Sympathy for the Parents as they were nothing short of Selfish who only though off themselves and if they were that Unhappy why in God's name didn't they leave there other halfs?Regardless of what the Law then said
My sister always told me that if you don't want someone to know something then don't write it down. 😁 They were not especially smart in their planning.
Agra isn't that where they found a lot of diamonds, there and where the Agra Khan had himself weighed in diamonds a long time ago, or is that the Aga Khan. His daughter is Jasmine Khan her mother was Rita Hayworth.
How have times changed in marriage and divorce SMH. Now it's women who initiate it and get everything or help. Sad how things just make things highly what we take for granted. Especially our rights. Thanks brief case another great case.
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Fires the cook that made sure not to poison the food and make the other person aware then gets the new cook to hire others to finish the job 👀 poor cook 1 no good deed goes unpunished
It breaks my heart to her children being shunned because of usless parents. I was born in 1969 and shunned because of my usless mother. My hillbilly Forster family treated me like crap for $14.00s every 2 weeks.
I hate that that poor man was denied by both sides of his family. He was innocent. That hurts my heart for him. I'm glad he had a family of his own, though. I also like that she died of heatstroke, the initial cause of death given to her husband. It's ironic in the best way. Thanks for another fascinating story!
Another great one!
Thankyou :)
That Dr Clarke was especially vile, getting his wife murdered for payment. The poor teenage daughter witnessing it. Very powerfully retold thank you Brief Case
Thanks for watching
The ending was very surprising in that this little boy who was rejected and sent to an orphanage ended up serving with distinction and raising his own family never knowing who his parents were in Australia.
He was better off not knowing - especially about the scoundrel his father was.
The most shocking thing about this case is the fact that the orphan child was rejected by both sets of grandparents.
I’m glad that he managed to live a long and happy life.
Sounds like my mom she was very abusive towards my 3rd nephew he was a child born to my 2nd brother in law, and according to her he didn't match the set I went WTF he's a child and I caught her beating him, his dad came close to doing the same to her, but he's a real man and didn't hit even creatures like her she's was nothing but a narcissist and should be among the killer grandma I watched a video about three you know one who turned her neighbor's into soap, and cakes, in Italy and the other two one who was the giggling granny and the other one was in charge of a border house that killed them to keep their benefits, sick sick and really sick.
I totally agree w/ you about the orphan child. His only mistake was being born with a couple of murdering idiots for parents.
Sometimes this is a blessing in disguise,imgine how they would have treated him because of his parents.
When I was 6 in the 60s , the kids teased you if your parents were divorced, if you were mixed, kids rarely were told they didn’t have a dad they were told their dad died in Vietnam. So I can understand the prejudice back then.
@@blazefairchild465well a b****rd child born out of wedlock was v taboo back then so figures no one unfortunately wanted the victim child
It's sad that Augusta killed her husband for someone who thought entirely too much of himself, and probably didn't even care for her at all. For them to keep all the letters outlining their plans was just plain stupid. I feel sorry for their spouses and kids. I'm glad their son had a good life. In his case, I think it's probably a good thing he never knew who his parents were.
Unbelievable the doctor asked numerous people to get involved in murder. Even more incredible that some complied. Blueprint for disaster. Good story. Thanks BC!
Augusta and Henry deserved each other. They were despicable and not the brightest for sure. So horrible what the poor daughter had to witness. I’m glad the son was able to make a life for himself, he was better off never knowing who his biological parents were.
@Yvette Fortin Keyser,yes I agree with you!!
Totally agree with your opinion... couple of rotten eggs lol 🤢
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Thank you ,BC,for the well researced article on the 2 unfaithful and cruel ,soul_less people who had no qualms in murderimg their spouces and the other parent of their children .You have taken great pain to reproduce the pictures of the bygone days of the British Raj and have given us the background and history of the cities in Northern India .I noticed the bullock cards that were the main mode of transport and the attire of the indians and the British .Well done and thank you .
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I'm fascinated by the strange world of British colonialism. My grandmother's sister's husband was murdered in West Africa where he worked as a surveyor for the government. Ground glass was put in his food, which slowly tore through his digestive system. He was sent back to England to die. He was a large, strapping man, but by the time he reached the port of Liverpool, his wife could carry him off the ship. It was never determined who was behind this.
Hi Carol, What a sad story, thankyou for sharing it
I don't mean to be rude at all but it's impossible to die of ingesting ground up glass. It's either big and sharp enough to feel immediately and not be swallowed or it's fine enough to pass through. I obviously can't say if it was intentional poisoning or a (tropical) disease but it must be one of those
You really outdid yourself this week, man! I was enthralled by the case, the details are so wild that it's not hard to see why it was in all the papers back then. But the pictures were absolutely mesmerizing! I actually had to back up 30 seconds two separate times, because I had missed what you were saying. Thanks so much!!
Thanks Holly :)
@@BriefCaseOfficial I agree with Holly.
The are truly wonderful.
Yes, the pictures were really great .
Wow, just like today, where so many parents think more of their "love" lives, than of their children. Thanks, BC.
Some things never change.
These stories just can't be made up! These two lovers were obviously not very bright. They both got what they deserved in the end, but their poor children who had to live through all of this...Thank you BC & Happy Monday (my Friday!😁)
It’s really fascinating the cruel, evil, stupid things people do in the name of ‘love’. These two were particularly idiotic - witnesses everywhere, putting their plans in letters , keeping the letters in a box 🙄. If this were fiction it would be unbelievable!!
Thank you BriefCase for your amazing research and narration of this one. I’m amazed at the cases you manage to unearth, and the details you manage to find.
Have a great week - goodnight from Australia 🇦🇺
Thankyou :)
I dunno. They catch adulterers by their phone records and texts today
I know was thinking the same
One reason I love this channel
thank you for this very interesting case.
I truly valued the tidbit at the end about their child William Hope. How awful he was rejected by his families. very cold. it is details like this that make your recounting so interesting. I never know what I'll learn next.
Thankyou :)
Wow, what a sensational case. It is undeniable that they were both guilty. But it is almost incredible to what lengths both of them went, with the idea of one day being together. So, it is wrong what they did, but the outcome is also sad. I guess it is a good thing that their son lived without his parents families, as they would have resented him.
Woah! What a story!! What fools do, is incredible! My only concerns are to the children, so very sad. I'm glad the last born lived on....maybe good he didn't know the truth. Great story telling, as always
I am guessing if the son died in 1975 not knowing who his birth parents were that this is information only recently discovered?
Such a shame that the son she had in prison was rejected by the families on both sides, as if it was HIS fault.
I'm glad he was able to enjoy a good life regardless.
Very glad to hear that the son she had in prison went on to have a successful career and establish his own family. I hope that he was happy and treated his loved ones with kindness.
Many people who grow up in orphanages or foster care systems struggle and suffer their entire lives.
Some people who come from abusive / criminal families become abusers themselves (roughly 1/3), while many of the remainder enter relationships as adults where they continue to be victimized and abused. Only a few are able to process their trauma and learn how to have healthy relationships.
It should be celebrated when someone breaks the cycle of abuse. It is a hard cycle to break.
Nice, thoughtful comment.
wonder if the grandkids know their background or what happened to them
I believe by listening to your segments a person could become an expert on human behavior
Thank you once again
I nearly spit out my coffee when I heard that the cook who warned Louisa that Henry wanted to poison her food left her employment (sacked?) and Henry was apparently left off the hook. Glad their child eventually had his own family and found happiness in Australia. Thank you Brief Case for another fascinating story, well researched and told in great detail. I'll be back next Monday.
Even if she believed the cook, there's nothing to do. Divorce is a no-no and "all you have" as evidence is the word of a "coloured" cook. Especially in India, social class mattered
Hi BC , I feel so sorry for those children who had to witness that and her son , although I can’t help but think of the stupidity of these two keeping those letters. They got what they deserved…. Have a great week BC and all….
Glad their son at least made it to a (hopefully) uneventful life with his own family. Not knowing the details about his parents was, probably, not for the worst.
What a story! Henry and Augusta really thought they'd get away with it.. 😏
"An improper relationship!" 😮 Words befitting of a bygone era! Imagine being given a stay of execution due to being pregnant.. but in the end justice prevailed!
Thanks, BC💼 and happy Monday to everyone 🙋🏻♀️
Thanks :)
actually, that makes perfect sense. The unborn child didn't commit any crimes. Why should they die for no reason?
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@@cautionTosser Absolutely! I was just saying, imagine the scenario.. the wicked woman would have been relieved to have had her death sentence suspended, but in the end justice prevailed anyway! She died a year after giving birth.. yes, to her *innocent* child..
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It's so sad that their poor child, through no fault of his own, was rejected by the families and ended up in an orphanage. I hope he had a really good life once he was an adult.
Hey BC and cat companion.
I started watching just after you uploaded but was sidetracked by a phone call.
Well, Augusta and Henry made quite the couple, didn't they?
And they did everything right.
They made themselves well known, they tried to involve others in their plans and they wrote everything down.
I'm amazed they ever got caught. 🤔🤦🤦♂🤦♀
Have a fantastic week guys. 👍
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@@nancyM1313 Hey Nancy. It's been ages. Good catching up mate. Have a great day
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The outrageous absurdity Of these criminals holding on to evidence that proves their guilt so easily shocks me almost as much as the crimes!!
The poor children suffered from their murderous parents, who brought another child into the world to become an orphan! And the world goes round!
But he went from the orphanage to have a "distinguished career in the Navy" and moved to a different country to establish his own family.
We can't know if he was a happy person or if he was kind to his family, but it sounds like he achieved success in life. Much more success than you might expect of an orphan back then.
I come from a family of abusers and criminals, and my mom broke that cycle by cutting off contact with her entire family. But they try to pull us back in.
I also have friends who grew up in modern foster care systems. They went in healthy and came out physically/psychologically disabled. I am very familiar with the cycle of abuse and how hard it is to escape an abusive / criminal family or system
The son's story sounds like a success story to me. Much better to be an orphan than be raised by abusers. He escaped the cycle.
Good Morning, Brief Case! Grandchildren have been dropped off at school, sitting with my cup of coffee, and ready to start my day with your new video.
Sounds nice :)
Another amazing video!! Thank you, brief case! Your voice is so relaxing! It's currently almost 4:30 am. As smm
It never ends up being the riding off into the sunset and the happy ever after they think it will be
Welp, seems like sex or money back in the day got you swinging at the end of a rope. It amazes me every day how people do the dumbest things. Another great story!!
Hello BC. Wow! this was an incredible story along with wonderful photos of the period. Augusta could have had a wonderful life. She was mesmerized by Henry. Even though none of the families wanted baby William Hope: how incredible that life took care of him for not knowing who his biological parents were. He might have gone on wanting to know, but it was best not. Rest in Peace Edward Fulham and Louisa Clark. Great week BC and faithful listeners. Elizabeth C.
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Heck! what a terrible shocking murderous mad twosome these were. Unbelievably stupid as well, surreal almost. And sad.
Off topic, but one divorce for every 450 marriages is a higher rate for that period than I would have expected.
I wonder how many of those were ones where the wife was committed to an asylum whilst sane?
Doctors could be bribed to declare someone insane. There were private asylums where again bribery was used to declare them incurable, and these were profit driven anyway. They didn't *want* to cure too many people.
If the husband divorced for adultery or desertion he appeared a cuckold and lost respect, whilst cruelty would certainly also be another humiliating and emasculating reason.
I have read that if the wife did commit adultery or deserted her husband it was common for doctors to agree they were insane or nymphomaniacs. Nymphomania was diagnosed as a form of insanity anyway, and you could be called that just for wanting any other man than your husband!
Even if a man was prepared to be emasculated, what if the wife was faithful, as most were? You needed witnesses to bring a charge of adultery.
Fun fact ...adultery used to be called criminal conversation!!
Good morning! Your voice is like a comforting cup of tea....❤❤❤❤❤
Morning :)
"Maude" we are not making any of those anymore. Wonder if she looked like Bea Arthur 🤔
Another outstanding case your attention to detail is second to none, thank you for all of the hard work you put into bringing these cases to life. I ñow have my whole family watching as well as we are all avid history buffs x
Thanks so much Tabatha
I love, love, LOVE this channel. It gives historical context yet highlights how nothing changes with greed, envy and lust. Great job!
3:30 ish "...and there were rumours that he beat her. Henry was a son of a..."
Painter was not what I was expecting. :D Well played, sir.
😂 same here.
Nice cover there. I’m now borrowing that. 🤣
So many love triangles which always lead to the same tragic outcome you would wonder why anyone has willingly allowed themselves to participate in one
Lust and greed are powerful motivators.
Ever been in love? There are some people that seem to be your key to happiness.
This could be a short story from WS Maugham
Good morning or afternoon or evening wherever you are
I can agree that the difficulty of obtaining a divorce in the early 20th century led to a great deal of misery. However, while divorce was almost impossible to obtain, a change of identity was not.
If you didn't have a criminal record, your fingerprints weren't going to be on file. They didn't know about DNA. Unless you were suspected of committing murder or stealing a really large amount of money, chances were the authorities wouldn't put all that much effort in to go after you. Documents were frequently hand written and not that hard to forge. A lot of the time documents simply weren't required, so you didn't even have to bother trying to forge them.
Members of the British community in India would have been able to identify each other - so that Clark and Fullam would have had difficulties trying to claim they were (say) English or Australian. However, if the British community in India were anything like the British community in Argentina, it would have been fractured along social, ethnic and religious lines. A Protestant member of that community would typically not have a lot to do with a Catholic and vice versa. Working class members typically would not be on first name terms with middle class members. People with English backgrounds didn't necessarily associate with those with Irish backgrounds, etc, etc. They could have used those fractures to create a little wiggle room if they encountered other members from the British community in India.
So, if they'd decided to elope together, they had a number of different options: go to a big city such as London or New York where there are so many people with varied backgrounds that they are not going to stand out or go to an isolated area where nosey officials are thin on the ground. As a doctor, Clark had a number of options for earning a living (assuming that continuing to practise medicine while changing his identity was too big a hurdle to cross). I'm not sure that pharmacists were actually required to be trained and licenced at that stage - so that would have been one possibility. He could have played on the Indian thing and claimed that he was some sort of traditional Indian doctor. He could have gone for something like being a herbalist.
It was a mercy that William Hope remained ignorant of his origins. I'm sure it would have been a terrible burden to shoulder, both personally, and in how he was perceived and treated by others.
Good morning BC from Black Diamond Alberta. Ironic that she died of heat stroke. I wonder how the other children faired? Another great narration.
Thankyou :)
Henry was Despicable, and so was Augusta! Definitely not too bright!
Wow…This is tragic in so many ways. I love the way you tell and present all these cases. Keep up the good work!
Thankyou :)
Good lord. It always amazes me how truly destructive " love" can be
This story should be titled - 'World's Dumbest Criminals'😂
The love child's heirs are due an unpleasant surprise.
Little did they know, when they sat down to listen to Brief Case this morning....
Hey BC!!! Just caught u! Glad I put my phone on charge and thought “I know I’ll have RUclips on the in background whilst I’m doing my chores!”… still no new four paws… sigh… I’m chomping at the bit now but 🤷🏻♀️ so for now I’m still sporting ‘Labrador lady’ as my sign in.. 😢
I forgot it was Monday until I saw the notification that Brief Case had uploaded a video. Hooray for Monday!
Hope you have a good week
But why did Loyisa stay with him?
Especially after she knew he was trying to poison her?
I imagine that, because she was older than him, she saw herself as the dominant one in the marriage, and bossed him around. Her staying with him was perhaps to taunt/annoy/challenge him, as if she said: "I DARE you to try and kill me!" or "Just you wait: I'll outlive you!"
Good morning brief case! Thank you for making my Monday morning so great! Have a great day ❤
Thanks Rebecca, You too :)
Was it possible for the press to sensationalise this story? It’s truly terrible. I feel so sorry for the unfortunate Edward, poisoning is an agonising way to die. Louisa also didn’t deserve her fate. I hope their children were able to have as happy lives as possible. I can’t help wondering if these two had been more discreet and escaped justice how long would it have been before Clark tired of Augusta.
Greetings fans and BC. Great trip to India today.
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2 Innocent people, Murdered for "love"! So Cruel! And the Poor Innocent Children!🥀🥀🥀🥀🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️ I hope the Children were able to be alright!
Wow. That story is really sad.
It Was Truly Sad How Selfish Augusta And Henry Was - To Resort To Murder. If They Had NEVER Cheated On Their Spouses, It Wouldn't Have Been Necessary.
This case was a goodone, but also sad. Sad because how both Augusta and the doctor felt towards their spouses. I didn't like either of them. So glad the villain doctor snd the guys he paid to kill his wife were caught. They hot what they deserved. Except i was hoping that she would have gotten death as well. Great job, Briefcase. Your amazing
these two have to be the dumbest murderers ever....writing letters about how to go about it, and KEEPING them.....great as always, BC...pet briefcat for me.
They were equally arrogant, ignorant & evil-ant😁. Seriously tho they didn't even try a little bit to hide any of it! Wow! Ty as always! Absolutely topping my dear! VWD! 👏👍
Thankyou :)
Had their plans been successful, l doubt that they would have been happy together. Not because of guilt, but because Augusta would have realized he was passionately in love with someone else...........himself !
Excellent video as always. I am glad the little boy never learned who his parents were. It would have been a massive blow to him to find out that both his parents were murderers.
While "Sinister" and "Tragic" are somewhat common words found in the Brief Case titles, we have to sit back as we go to May 2, 2022 for the last pairing of these two words, when we had the "Tragic & Sinister Case of Mary Stannard".
Excellent job. I was surprised that Augusta had anything to do with the death. I thought he would do it for her. They so deserved everything that they got. Some people want to be with thier lovers so bad. I don't think I believe their stories of thier marriages. Another great case. I so love you! Until the next....Brief...case.
Even a hundred years ago murderers were plainly stupid. Keeping letters detailing how they were planning to kill their spouses !! Are you kidding me ??
Excellent video.
Evidently Mrs. Clarke preferred being dead to divorced.
Love your videos. Very well researched and u find cases that I don't know of. Well done Mr bc
Thanks Shannon
Thank God for the narcissist's arrogance...almost makes the authorities job too easy. There can be no other explanation why this type of murderer often leaves a paper trail directly to them.
In that era,and even today up until the 60's,the scandal of the illegitimate bastard was a fate worse than death.Couple that with marital infidelity and murder and the scandal would ruin the grandparents The child would also be branded as a bastard and shunned.The church would shun them all as well and the child could not be baptized. In many cases if the grandparents were not too advanced in age they would pretend that the woman got pregnant and raise their grandchild as their own.They would have difficulty pulling that off with the publicity of the case. Things are so different today.There is no stigma in illegitimate children.I was adopted at birth and used DNA to find my biological parents.My father was a suspected child murderer.Didn't devastate me a bit.Just glad I dodged that bullet and that the truth was out and I didnt havecto live with all the lies.
The wife was "so rudely murdered"
Well said 👍
I wonder if William Hope's family members know about their grandparents.
Certainly a very sinister case, though all the guilty parties got what they deserved. The only question I have is why wasn’t Edward immediately arrested once it was discovered that he had attempted to poison his wife with arsenic?
BC's nice, slow cadence had me believing some lady married a musical instrument for some odd reason, for just a par second.
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I've got no Sympathy for the Parents as they were nothing short of Selfish who only though off themselves and if they were that Unhappy why in God's name didn't they leave there other halfs?Regardless of what the Law then said
My sister always told me that if you don't want someone to know something then don't write it down. 😁 They were not especially smart in their planning.
Agra isn't that where they found a lot of diamonds, there and where the Agra Khan had himself weighed in diamonds a long time ago, or is that the Aga Khan. His daughter is Jasmine Khan her mother was Rita Hayworth.
"400 letters in a small locked box"?
Couldn't have been that small!
Thank you our friend Briefy with another interesting case! Got myself something else to think about than this terrible flu, feeling quite ill.
This is the second case you are covering from my home country of India , after the Alevander case of Madras . Thankyou very much Brief Case .
I would like to cover more, if you know any from the 19th or early 20th Century :)
@@BriefCaseOfficial You could cover the Billa and Ranga case from the 1980s , which took place in the capital city of Delhi .
Thanks - I will look into that one
How have times changed in marriage and divorce SMH. Now it's women who initiate it and get everything or help. Sad how things just make things highly what we take for granted. Especially our rights. Thanks brief case another great case.
Ah .. Fairfield was her middle name.
Nothing but good love there.
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So the cook told the wife what he was planning and the cook was reassigned and she just hired a new cook????
The husband is like the Terminator!
Sorry, life. You're on hold.
It's new BC time! 😍
Henry was definitely Handsome! That can lead to trouble!
Moustaches= Up to no good!
Never write down your crimes and don't involve others in your crimes.
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Fires the cook that made sure not to poison the food and make the other person aware then gets the new cook to hire others to finish the job 👀 poor cook 1 no good deed goes unpunished
It breaks my heart to her children being shunned because of usless parents. I was born in 1969 and shunned because of my usless mother. My hillbilly Forster family treated me like crap for $14.00s every 2 weeks.
Thats very sad Kerry, I hope your life has now turned out to be much better
I'm sorry to hear that, I hope everything is fine now, wish you all the best
Vomiting 12 times, in 6 hours?!! Poor Man! Brutal !
Love these old cases. Keep up the good work.
Murderers were stupid to save those letters. Glad they did because they got what they deserved.
First comment! Yay!
I hate that that poor man was denied by both sides of his family. He was innocent. That hurts my heart for him. I'm glad he had a family of his own, though. I also like that she died of heatstroke, the initial cause of death given to her husband. It's ironic in the best way. Thanks for another fascinating story!
Thanks Kasey
i am wondering if she was murdered and blamed it on heat stroke?