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and W. has got his keys with him; I then said that I would come the next
morning and look at
those rooms; three of these keys would fit doors in the building not
belonging to Dr. W.'s apart-
ments; remember hearing W. say at Cambridge that he would go back and get
'his keys, and
ilso Constable Clapp saying that he (Clapp) had got keys enough to fit
every door in the building.
Forty-seventh Witness.-CHARLES B. RICE, Policeman, called -I am connected
with the
Police of this City; was at the College, employed in the examination of it
before the arrest of
Prof, W. ; Prof. W. went into his rooms with us; was at the College at the
time when he was
brought down on the night of his arrest; I heard something said about the
furnace, but did not
go near it myself; saw Mr. Andrews, the jailor, there with the others.
Cross-examined.-I saw the tea-chest turned over by officer Fuller, and saw
the thorax and
thigh turned out of the box ; went into the lower laboratory on the day of
the first search
at the College, and heard the allusion made to the privy in the laboratory;
Prof. W. stood in an
opposite part of the room ; he said something about there being another
room which we had not
seen before.
Forty-eighth Witness.-SAMUEL LANE, Jr., called.-I am in the hardware
business in Dock
Square ; have been in Dock Square one year and a half; have known Prof. W.
since 1835 ;
some few days after the disappearance of Dr. P., Prof. W. came to the store
and asked for some,
fish-hooks ; the time is not accurately impressed on my mind, because I had
been in the habit of
doing business with Prof. W. before.
Cross-examination of this witness, declined. '
Fiftieth Witness. JAMES W. EDGERLY, called and sworn.-My place of business
(hardware)
is No. .3 Union-street; I was called upon to sell some fish-hooks on
Tuesday the 27th Nov., to-
ward night ; the person who called bought six fish-hooks and went out ;
should think the hooks
now exhibited were the ones I sold the person who called; they are of
unusual size and value;
we have had them in the store a long time; I have seen the pers on who
bought the hooks, singe
at the jail and in this Court; did not know him at the time.
Cross-examination of this witness declined. '
Fifty first Witness.-Wm. W. MEAD, called and sworn.-Am in the hardware
business at.No.
5 Union-street ; on Friday, the 30th November, a man came to the store and
said he wanted some
fish-hooks of the largest size; he said he wanted to make a grapple of
them; I showed him some,
and showed him how to make a grapple; those exhibited are not the ones he
bought of me;
can't say that the prisoner is the man who purchased the hooks of me ; I
was taken to the jail to
see Prof. W., in order to discover if I could recognize him; I did not
recognize him at the time;
he had on a smoking-cap, and was dressed differently from the individual
who bought the hooks
of me; I told the officers if they could get him to put on his clothes, I
might probably recognize
him, Prof. W. put on his hat and coat, and I thought I did recognize him as
the person, who
bought the hook9.
Cross-examined.=It was about one o'clock when I saw Professor W. at the
jail.
To the Court-I sold the man three hooks.
Fifty-second Witness.-WM. N. TYLER, called. Am a twine manufacturer; have
been in the
business 45 years; there is something peculiar in the twine now exhibited;
it is called two-
threaded marline ; have not the least doubt that the twine exhibited, and
that found round the
fish books and the thigh found in the Medical College, is the same kind of
twine; it is of an un-
usual make at the present time ; it is made of Russian hemp; that exhibited
was carelessly
made, as is indicated by the irregularity of the strand.
Cross-examined.-Have no doubt that the twine first shown, and that found on
the fish-hooks,
&c., is of the same fabric; it may have been cut off the same piece: it is
sold by the pound;
there is about five cents per pound difference in the price of this and the
common kind oftwine;
the difference between this twine and that found on the remains is, that
the latter has been
soaked in water, and has become discolored-this, " longer-jawed," as it is
technically called.
Fifty-third W2tneSS.-NATHANIEL WATERMAN called and sworn.-Am a manufacturer
of
tin-plate ware, 83 and 85 Cornhill ; am acquainted with Prof. W.; he was in
my shop about 10
o'clock on the morning of Friday, the day,he was arrested; I saw him
talking to myforeman,
and stepped up to and accosted him, and said: 11 Excuse me Doctor, but
seeing you here, I must
ask what Dr. Parkman did when you gave him the money ?" Prof. W. said, " He
snatched up,
the money and ran out of the College in a strange manner." I said, ".Some
one must have'
seen him with the money and enticed him into one of his own buildings and
killed him, and if
he is ever found, he will be found in leis own cellar; there is a story
about his going to Cam-
bridge, but I do not believe it." Prof. W. replied, °° But he did go to
Cambridge; I am sure
of it. Some one said, " Only think the mesmerizer says that he went away in
a cab, and Mr.
Fitz IT. flower has found the number of the cab, and there are spots of
blood on it.
Here the Court adjourned until three and a half o'clock.
Afternoon Sesdon.
The Jury came in at twenty-five minutes past three o'clock, and the Court
entered at twenty,
minutes before four o'clock. The proceedings commenced.
NATHANIEL W ATERMAN, recalled-I told the Professor bow the tin box should
be made; told
him it should be made with the edge coming up straight. [Here the tin box
was exhibited to
the Court.], I meant that the edge should not be turned in; he said he was
going to put small
things in it, such as books, &e. ; be said lie should like to have a strong
handle put on the cover
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