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ceremonies. I ground off the lower edge of them new the gum, in order to
make the jaws fit
hitter; this operation destroyedahe pink color ifta88 Eo imitate the
gam,.and-renrtewhat4hsrred
the beauty of the work. At ten o'clock of the same night, of the opening of
the Medical eoHege,
fn 1846, after I had retired someone came to the door and rung. 1 ,was told
by the servant that
it was Dr. P. He came in and said that the spring of the teeth had broken,
and he Wanted it
Te aired. ,;,w
worked on the block about half an hour. The Dr. left the house an& Trent
home.. °-f :fever
had any professional intercourse with him after that time: I was in New
York at the time of
Dr. Parkman's disappearance, and received a letter stating that his
artificial teeth imd.,been
found.in the furnace of Prof. Webster's laboratory: ' I soon afterward
returned to Boston, and
the teeth were brought to me, and I at once recognized them as the teeth
which 'I had made for
Dr. Parkman, and with which I had taken so much pains.
[Here the voice of Dr. Keep was frequently interrupted by sobs, and he was
finally obliged to
wait for. some time, until his emotions would allow him to proceed.] -
Dr. Keep's testimony resumed.-I was satisfied that the right upper teeth
which were pat into
my hands by Dr. Lewis, were Dr. P's. There could be no mistake about them.
Dr. Noble as-
sisted me in their manufacture. The other parts of the artificial teeth
were somewhat damaged
by the action of fire. At this point the Attorney General requested Dr.
Keep to stand immedi-
ately before the Jury and explain to them the points of resemblance between
the mold. amd the
blocks of teeth found in the laboratory furnace. The bench also examined
the blocks of teeth
and the mold with minute attention, under the explanation of Dr. Keep. The
interior of the
jaw-bone found in the furnace was calcined. To a juror-The last time I saw
Dr. P., -which was
tie day before his disappearance, I saw the teeth in his mouth. while
conversing. uestion by
ttorney General-Do, you know anything concerning the appearance' of the
teeth that would
indicate that the teeth were in the mouth of the head while in the fire?
Ans.--such is the na-
tqrre_otoie mineral -teeth, that while in a person's mouth they absorb a
minute quantity of
water fn the pores of the mineral matter, and if these teeth=had been
thrown dirty into the
titre while wet, they would have been fractured into a great mangy( pieces;
the teeth vhkh were
found in the furnace indicate that they were slowly subjected to the action
of the fire, and not
instantly. If the teeth had been thrown into the fire without a muffler,
and dry, they would
'have cracked.
Cross-examined-Do not know at what time after I heard of the disappearance
of Dr. P. that
I came to the recollection of the circumstances att6trdirig the ri"af"dire
of them; the combi-
nation of the impressions made on my mind by an examination of Dr.
P's:•jaws, preparatory to
manufacturing the teeth, together with the view of the teeth themselves,
led me to fo?m the
opinion and belief that the teeth found in the laboratory furnace were
those made by me for Dr.
Parkman ; do not know whether I can state the events which I remember in
connection with the
.manufacture of the teeth, in order; but I do remember that the teeth were
made by me. before I.
went to Europe. Dr. P's. name is on the plaster cast of his jaws; I put it
on there at the time
the jaws and teeth were manufactured. .
Direct resumed-I said before the Coronor's Jury at there was. part of -a
natural tooth ad-
. hering to one of the bltioks, of miiterai' teeth -that 446 thxrOin Tao
tlioAre, enclosed ria the
head. " • ~ ., , , - ~,~,
Dr. LESTEn NOBLE called-I was an assistant of Dr. Keep from the 12th of
October;'38b, un-
til the last of July, 1849 ; I am now prosecuting my studies in Baltimore;
I remember making
mineral teeth for Dr. Parkman, in 1846 ; wrote Dr. Parkman's name on the
model; the Inscrip-
tion on the model is, '° Dr. p`arkman, Oct., 1846." I recognized the teeth
the moment I saw them
as those made by me for, Dr. Parkman,.as-well from the general
configuration as from-several pe-
culiarities which I remembered ; noticed also the defacement given them by
Dr. Reef in grind-
ing down the edges; am positive that these are the teeth made for
Dr-Parkman; have as good
reason to believe these teeth ,were made by me, as I have to believe any
fact which I know; re-
member that they were to have been done by the day that the Medical College
was opened; re-
member the circumstances of -the opening; Gov. Everett .delivered the
speech; I was present,
and watched to see if Dr. Parhmaii would speak;' in order to discover how
tWteeth would work;
he did not speak as :I inferred he would; when he was complimented by Gov.
Everett for his
enerosity, I understood that Dr. P. had given-the land on which the Medical
Collregq..atood to
arvard College. , .
- Here the Court adjourned to half-past 3 o'clock.
Afternoon Session.
At half-past three o'clock the Court resumed its sitting amid much
excitement and. confusion
Among the crowd outside. ,
Dr. LESTE$ NOBLE, recalled-I had just commenced studying dentistry with Dr.
Keep at the
time when Dr. P.'s teeth were made, , The first operation-is to take a
cast, in war, of the guru.
I made the cast, or mold,, in the said, and then cast the metal mold. I
have had experience
concerning the action of fire on mineral teeth; never knew mitiexal teeth
thrown into the fire
without cracking . They may be heated gradually up.to wgreatdegree of heat
and then cooled
off, but sudden heating cracks them. •. T lied a subsequent operation on
these teeth. .Dr.,p. came
to the office to have the teet4~ppaired,; he had had them fin hu pocket #ad
they were bout to-
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