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APPENDIX.
FINDING OF THE CORONER'S JURY.
Suffolk, ss.
An inquisition, taken at the city of Boston, within the county of
Suffolk, the thirteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, before Jabez Pratt, Esquire,
one of the Coroners of said county, upon the view of sundry parts of the
body of a dead man, viz., a thorax, pelvis, two thighs, left leg, and
sundry bones, there lying dead, by the oaths of Osmyn Brewster, John
L. Andrews, Pearl Martin, Thomas Restieaux, Lewis Jones, and Harum
Merrill, good and lawful men, who, being charged and sworn to inquire
for the Commonwealth, when, how, and by what means, the said dead
man came to his death, upon their oaths do say:--That they all have
been demonstrated to be parts of one and the same person.-That these
parts of the human frame have been identified and proved to be the
remains and parts of the dead body and limbs of Dr. George Parkman,
late a citizen of said Boston, aged about sixty years.-That he came to
his death by violence, at said Boston, on the 23d day of November last,
between the hour of one and a half of the clock in the afternoon of that
day, (about which time he entered, alive and in good health, into the
Massachusetts Medical College building, situate in North Grove street,
in said Boston,) and the hour of four of the clock in the afternoon of
the thirtieth day of November last, (when a portion of the said remains
were found concealed in and under the apartments of Dr. John W. Web-
ster, of Cambridge, in the County of Middlesex, in said College building,)
in which building the residue of said remains were afterwards discov-
ered.-That he was killed, ~in said College building, by a blow or blows,
wound or wounds, inflicted upon him with some instrument or weapon
to the Jurors unknown, and by means not yet known to said Jurors;
and that said blow or blows, wound or wounds, were inflicted upon him,
and said means were used, by the hands of said Dr. John W. Webster,
by whom he was killed.
In witness whereof the said Coroner and Jurors to this inquisition
have set their hands and seals the day and year above said.
JABEZ PRATT, Coroner.
OSMYN BREWSTER, Foreman.
JOHN L. ANDREWS, Secretary.
PEARL MARTIN.
THOMAS RESTIEAUX.
LEWIS JONES.
HARUM MERRILL.
SECRETARY'S JOURNAL.
Inquest held by Jabez Pratt, Esquire, Coroner, this fitst day of Decem-
ber, A. D. 1849, at the Medical College, Grove street, upon a body sup-
posed to be the body of George Parkman, there lying dead; and by
adjournment to the same place on Monday, the third day of December,
and also by an adjournment to the Ward Room, on Wednesday, Decem-
ber 5th, 1849. 'Wednesday, December 5th, the Jury of Inquest met and
sat until 71/2, P. M., and adjourned to Thursday, at 3 P. M.-Met at
3, P. M., and adjourned to meet at room No. 15, in the Court house, on
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