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I then went up stairs to the laboratory door and tried it again between 10
and ll o'clock, and
found tM doors locked; , jnst after, one of the door bells rung, and 1 went
down stairs; and found
Mr. Kingsley and officer Starkweather and another; Kingsley said, " we want
to look around
this College, for we can't trace the Dr. anywhere but here; just then, Dr.
Holmes came up and
said, " You don't want to haul all our subjects out of the chest, do you ?"
Kingsley said, " No,
we want to look abort the attics, &c. ; then Dr. Holmes told me to take
them a and show them all
round; I went up to the lecture room of Dr. W. and gave two or three loin
raps on the door;
the Professor came to the door, and merely put his head out; I told him
what the officer's busi-
ness was; we passed in and through the lower laboratory, and then down into
my cellar; the
Dr. did not say anything, to my recollection, on that day; don't recollect
whether he followed
us down stairs or not.
The officers, Mr. Kingsley and myself, went all round over the building;
don't recollect
whether the officers went through my apartments or not; I heard the
Professor in his rooms;
afterwards, went up to the Laboratory and tried his doors, but found them
locked; on Tuesday
morning I went and tried all the doors of Professor W. 's rooms, in order
to get in and make the
fires, bUt couldn't get further than the Lecture room; afterwards went into
the Lecture room,
and found Professor Webster there; he had overalls on; I went round to his
back room and saw
that he had a fire in the stove; he went round the table toward the back
room; I asked him if
he wanted a fire made in his furnace; he replied, " No-the
things.>zonnected with my lectures
won't stand heat."
[Here the Jury had leave to retire for a few minutes.]
After an intermission of fifteen minutes, the Court returned.
Continuation of the examination of Littlefield. I left his room and went
out the way he came
in-by the front entry; a short time after that, while, standing in the
wood-sued, I saw Mr.
Kingsley and officers Clapp, Rice and Fuller, coming toward me; they came
into the shed and
said `1 We are going to search every foot of land in the College and
neighborhood," and they
should begin at the College, for if the College was searched first, the
people in the neighborhood
wouldn't have any objection to their own houses being searched; I said I
would show them over
any part of the building to which I had access; at that moment Bigelow came
forward, and I
told him what the officers wanted; he ordered me to show them all over the
building; one of the
officers then said, " Let us go to Prof. W. 's room; we went up and found
his door was locked;
went round the other way, and we found the door there locked; I rapped
first with my knuckles,
and next with my open hand, very loudly, and Prof. W.. came to the door; 1
told him what the
officers wanted, and we passed in; do not recollect hearing Professor
Webster say anything;
officer Clapp went toward the small room in the Laboratory and tried to
open the door, but Pro-
fessor Webster said, " that is the place where I keep my valuable and
dangerous articles," we
then all went down into the .lower laboratory, and the officers went toward
the privy; I thought
the Prof, tried to turn their attention from that part of the room as he
opened another door and
called their attention in another dire c,~pn ; the officers said they
wanted to search the diasectin
vault; they wanted to lower a light i~ it, I. told them there was nothing
in there, but what
had put in there myself; that no one but myself had access there, and that
it was kept locked,
and the keys were m my possession; they wanted to lower a light down into
the vault, but'I
told them it wouldn't burn in the vault; the width of the receptacle for
the dissecting room
refuse is about two feet; it is about two feet above the floor; they were
satisfied and did not at-
tempt to look there; we next got a light from my kitchen; Clapp, Fuller,
and myself descended
through the trap door, leading down to the foundation wall; Mr. Fuller
wanted td go to the
back side of the building, and had to go on one hand and knee.
The officers wanted to get into the vault of the privy of Professor
Webster's laboratory; I told
them that they could not do it without cutting through the wall; they then
came up through
the trap-door, searched all my rooms, and then went off; about 4 o'clock
that afternoon, Profes-
sor W. came to the College and went to his room; I heard him unlock t~e
door of his loom, as I
was standing in the entry; I heard him unbolt the door of his lower
laboratory, and started to
go into the kitchen, when his bell rung; I acid to my wife, " I guess
Professor Webster has
got his doors open now, so that I can go into his room;" I went up and
found him standing at a ta-
ble in his laboratory, with a newspaper in his hand, reading; he asked me
if I had purchased a
Thanksgiving turkey; I told him ~ had not, and as I intended to spend the
day out, I did not.
think of getting one; he asked me if I knew where Mr. Foster, near the
Howard Atheaxum,
kept; I said yes; he then gave me an order on Mr. F. and said, " Take this
to Mr. F, and get a,
nice turkey, as I make aQpractise of giving away several at this time, and
besides I want you to do
some more fobs for me shortly;" he then gave me another order on Mr. Foster
to send him some
sweet potatoes; I carried the order to Mr. Foster, and picked out a turkey,
and gave him ilie
order for the sweet potatoes.
He never gave me apresent before this time, even to the value of a cent;
came back home, and
some time after heard him coming down the stairs; I started out to go to
the Odd Fellows' Lodge;,
be saw me and asked me where I was going, I said to my Lodge; he then
asked, " are you a
Freemason ?" I replied, " I am part of one;" we walked up Grove street
together, and he turned
toward Chamber street: neat morning (Wednesday,) Prof. Webster came to the
College pretty
early, and went to his room; I went up to the laboratory door and heard him
moving things
about the room; I listened at the door and.tried to peep through the
key-hole, but could not see
through the key-hole on account of the spring being down; I looked around
and caw my wife
looking at me from below; I afterwards tried to cut through the joints of
the partition walls,
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