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Direct examination resumed-I got the mortgage•which has just been read,
from Dr. P's. hou"
after death, and before the session of the Coroner's Jury.
At this juncture, it being nearly seven o'clock, the Court adjourned until
Wednesday, at nine
o'clock, A. M.
On motion of the Government Counsel, the Court instructed the Jury to
proceed, in the charge
of three constables, specially sworn in for the occasion, to view the
Medical College in Nor
Grove street.
His Honor Chief Justice Shaw instructed the officers to exhibit to them the
rooms occupied b~
Prof. W. as laboratory, &o., together with .the privy, and the perforation
of the central wall made
by Littlefielil, before.his discovery of the remains in the privy vault.
His, Honor charged the
officers and the counsel to tell the Jury merely what apartments they were
shown, without com-
ment.
The Jury were further instructed to proceed to the Medical College at
half-past 7 o'clock,
A. M., and return in time to attend Court by 9 o'clock. .
SECOND DAY.'
FRANCIa Tu$Ex; City Marshal, ailed..-I am City. Marshal, and ap such have
the direction of
the police under my direction; all the search was made that could be made
to discover the body
of Dr. Parkman; Mr. Blake came to my office at half-past ten or eleven
o'clock, tlr. M., on Satur-
day, the 24th November, and told me that he wished to see me at his office;
I went with him,
and met at'his office Mr. R. Shaw; they then told me that Dr. P. was
missing, and that they
wished me to institute a search for him; at 2 o'clock, P. M., the same
information and order was,
given to the whole police.
After that, Messrs Blake and Shaw came to my office and asked what was to
be done; I advised
them to advertise; of the press the police learned nothing further, than
that he had been seen
at the west end at half-past one o'oloeli, Friday afteFnoto~t; .tJbe
fqikt,49tioe,given of the fact was
given November 26th,'snd merely stated the fact that the Ds. was missing;
on Monday, a hand-
bill, offering $8000 reward for the recovery of the Dr. appeared. A day or
two after; s reward
of $100 was offered for a watch, without stating whose watch it was.
We gave in that notice a description of the watch known to have been in the
possession of Dr.
Parkman at the time he disappeared. A reward was afterwards offered
amounting to.$1000,
for the recovery of the body of Dr. Parkman. Of these handbills about
28,500 were distributed.
All efforts that could be made by me with the fore at my disposal, were
made. A story was
' Circulated in the city that Dr. P. had been seen at 5 o'clock on Friday
afternoon, in Washington
street, going south. '
4n the Friday of the neat week succeeding the disappearance of Dr. P., I
was informed by Lit-
, tlefield, while at my office, that he had succeeded in piercing the
center wall of the Medical Col-
lege, and had found in the vault of the privy of Pi•of. W.'s laboratory,
the remains of a human
body ; I put a revolver in my pocket, and started immediately for the house
of Robert G. Sliow,
Jr., informed him of the fact stated by Littlefield, and he went in my
company and that of Dr.
Henry Bigelow the younger, to the Medical College in North Grove street; we
entered the build-
ing, and descended through the trap-door before referred to, into the
cellar; we passed. along
the foundation of the center wall of the building until we came to the hole
in the wall made by
Littlefield; it looked as though lately made; pieces of broken brick lay
around the spot.
[A well executed model of the Medical College, together with ,» map or plan
of the ground floor
and building, were heF&iutrfoSlnced, with * yi.Ae t9 facilitate the inquiry
aid fix the localities in
the building where the--searehoe were made and the remains found;
t~t;.b0.odel was neatly exe-
cuted, each story of the building being well represented, and finished-in
such a manner as to
draw off like the cover of a trunk or band box; its construction, according
to the plans and spe-
cifications of the building, was most ingenious, and presented ;afaeaurate
representation of every
locality. The model was examined with great care and axtegtion by' the
Court, Jury and Coun-
sel, and seemed to excite much attention in Court. It was made by Mr. James
'Ilobbs, of Boston
Mr. BEnrrs, juAior Counsel of the Government, exhibited the plan of the
building, to be intro-
duced in evidenoesto the Jury, giving a full and elaborate description of
it.] ~T _~,~_-, , _.,
[For Outs representing tree above models, see pp. 10 and 11.]
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