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Washington-street, to Court-square, and from thence, out through
Corn hill-square, or Joys Building. From Washington-street, he
went through Water-street, Devonshire-street, Merchant's Exchange
and Post Office ; then up State-street to Court-street, Green-street,
Lynde-street, and on to the corner of Vine and Blossom streets.
There I traced him into a store, where I learned that he had the
day before left a bag containing lettuce. The clerk requested me to
take away the lettuce, and said that Dr: Parkman had been there
the day before. Heard of him again in Fruit-street, which leads
from Blossom to Grove street. and the Medical College. Continued
the search all the evening till eleven o'clock at night. The police
were at work, half a dozen of them, from two o'clock on Saturday.
We inquired of every one we met. Twelve or fifteen, not in the
police, were directly concerned with me in the search. In the even-
ing, the police searched a great many houses. I was with them
when they searched five or six.
Advertisements were issued and rewards offered. The first adver-
tisement was published on Saturday afternoon, in some of the even-
ing papers. On Sunday, we searched about the city all the fore-
noon. In the afternoon, we heard he had been seen in East Cam-
bridge, and went over there. The officers went there to search, at
half past four A great many were searching about the new jail
lands, and in this houses, especially in some vacant houses, on Satur-
day. After searching in East Cambridge till ten or eleven o'clock
on Monday, I came into town, and went to the Medical College, in
company with officer Starkweather. We went all over the building,
into all the lecture-rooms, and the dissecting-room. Starkweather,
Littlefield, Dr. Ainsworth, and myself, went into Professor Webster's
apartments. We knocked at his lecture-room door; it was from a
quarter to half past eleven. We had been to the other places first.
We found the door locked. The rest of us started to go down stairs.
Littlefield said Professor Webster was there, and would open the
door. He shook the door. In two minutes, perhaps, though it
seemed longer to us, Webster unlocked the door. It was the door
leading from the lecture-room to the front entry. Littlefield said we
had come to look round, and see if any clue could be had to -Dr.
Parkman. Webster paid but little attention to us, and I did not hear
what he said. We looked round, and went down into the lower
laboratory. Webster came down behind us, ,but did not speak to us;
or whatever conversation there was, was between him and Littlefield.
After we got through the Medical College, I went back to East Cam-
bridge.
The next day, officers Clapp, Rice and Fuller, went down with me
to the Medical College, as early as ten o'clock. We knocked at
Professor Webster's door, and he opened it rather sooner than he did
the day before. When we first came into the building, we inquired
for Littlefield, and found him, or he met us. We searched his apart-
ments first. Littlefield was out and in the room, when we searched
it. We looked into his books, and searched his pantaloons for papers.
Looked into closets, into the bed, and under it. After searching
Littlefield's rooms, Fuller, Rice and Littlefield, went down through
the trap-door, and were gone ten or fifteen minutes.
We knocked at Dr. Webster's room, and were admitted sooner than
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