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not put it through the hole without forcing it. I found some tan in a
barrel in the laboratory;
found the knife in the tea-chest, and put it into my pocket immediately.
Think it was shut when
I found it; the thorax when I turned it out of the tea-chest was back up
towards me.
I stood looking at it several minutes, and the others gathered round me ;
some one took it up,
and we found the thigh inside ; I saw the hole in the thorax when it was
turned over ; officer
Butman said, " I am going to scrape the'tan off to see how it looks;" I
forbade him; the thorax
was left alone till the Coroner's Jury sat in inquest ; we kept the thorax
under strict guard until
the Coroner's Jury had seen it ; I brushed a little tan off it with my hand.
I was at the Medical College do duty from the Saturday after the arrest of
Prof. 61., until the
5th of January, 1850, a space of five weeks; I have remarked that I thought
Prof. W. was excited
at the time of the interview in Cambridge, on the Sunday after the
disappearance of Dr. P.; have
also remarked that his behavior might be natural to him; don't recollect
that I said before the
Coroner's Jury that Prof. W. said at the College, that Dr. P. was there at
half-past one o'clock, on
Friday, the 23d of November.
Think I said between half past one and two o'clock; must have said to the
Coroner's Jury what
I have said here to-day; made a memorandum of the conversation had with
Prof. Webster, and also
a memorandum of the testimony given by me before the Coroner's Jury ; those
memorandas are at
my office ; I have not said that Prof. Webster trembled at the interview on
Sunday ; I said that he
appeared agitated when the officers searched the laboratories; we went into
the cellar before going
to the laboratories; the privy at the angle of the wall is over a trench
into which the tide flows.
The ground near the privy slopes towards the privy wall ; can't state the
angle of the slope ; 1.
found the towels under the' privy ; the labels for the minerals looked as
though they were
newly written; they looked as though they had been written five or six
months.
Mr. Sohier-The ink was not fresh, was it?
Witness.-No.
Mr. Sohier.-Step down, Mr. Fuller.
Direct resumed.-Mr. Eaton was there at the time of the discovery of the
thorax in the chest.
Forty-fifth Witness.-SAMUEL PARKMAN BLAKE, called and sworn.-Am a relation
of the
late Dr. P.; I took a very active part in the search for Dr. P., devoting
my time exclusively to
that subject; the Monday after the disappearance of Dr. P. I went to the
College, and as I wax
going up the steps I met a student, of whom I asked whether Prof. W.
lectured that day; the
student replied that he did not. know, but would call the janitor
(Littlefield); Mr. L. came, and
I asked him if Prof. W. was in his laboratory; he said he didn't know, but
would see- we went
to the laboratory door and knocked, but did not gain admittance ; Mr L.
said he would go round
the other way, and if I would give him my name he would communicate it to
Prof. W.; I gave
him my name and after waiting for some time (I thought a very long time,) I
was let into the
lecture room; Piof. W. came out of his laboratory in a working dress; I
asked him to relate to
me the particulars of his interview with Dr. Parkman on Friday the 23d of
November.
Professor Webster stated that on the Tuesday previous to Friday, the 23d of
November, Dr.
Parkman had came into his lecture room, while he was delivering his
lectures, and sat down on the
left-hand side of the room in a front seat, and waited patiently for the
lecture to finish; that after
the lecture was over, Dr. Parkman had come up to him and s~iid, `1 You have
five hundred dollars
'in your pocket, and I want it." Professor W ebzter made an expression. of
face to show how Dr.
Parkman had looked, and I (witness) thought that Prof. Webster manifested a
good deal of angel.
himself at the moment. Professor W: continued, " I told him (Dr. Parkman)
that I hadn't got all
my money for the tickets, but as soon as I had I would pay him, and Dr.
Parkman went off quite
angry. On Friday morning between nine and ten o'clock (continued Webster) I
went to his
house in Walnut street, and ~told hirn that if' he would come to the
College at hall' past one o'clook
I would pay him. At one o'clock, (continued Prof. W.) he came to my
laboratory and said.° are
you ready for me now ?I " Prof. W. then showed me the position occupied by
the two at the time;
he said that Dr. Parkman stood at the end of the table next the door, arid
he stood at the opposite
end ; and that he then paid him $483 or $484 and some cents, can't say
exactly which; that Dr.
Parkman tools a bundle o: papers trot., his pocket, from which lie tools
one and dashed a pan
across it in a very wild manner, and snatched the money up, and without
counting it, was going
off; when he said to him there is that mortgage to be attended to; he said
he had forgotten the
mortgage deed but would attend to it at once. He. (Dr. P ) then run out of
the door with the
bills exposed to sight in his hand ; have been acquainted with Prof.
Webster several years'; I
thought at the interview on Mondav that his manner was very singular, and
that he did not exhibit
his wonted curdialify; he appeared to throw himself on the defensive and
avoid answering ques-
tions by asking others; he didn't appear to sympathize with our family in
the least, or to manifest
any- regret; he said lie had paid Dr. P. a $100 bill on the New England
bank and various other
denominations.
Cross-examined.-Littlefield came up to the lecture room-.after me ; I did
not hear him come
up ; heard of the disappearance of Dr. Parkman on Saturday; and was very
apprehensive of his
fate at the time; when I entered the lecture room Professor W. was putting
a jar on the table;
he said he was to lecture the neat day; I passed into the laboratory and
looked round out of curi-
osity to see what kind of a place it was ; the settee on which we sat was
in the lecture room and
not in the laboratory ; we did not sit down in the laboratory ; Professor
Webster tallied on various
subjects ; he said he had paid Dr Parkman a one hundred dollar bill of the
New England Bank,
4nd some other small bills of which he did not remark the denomination or
the Bank.
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