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Witness was requested to state, in general terms, about the search
which was made. Answer: It was as general and thorough as the
means at the disposal of the city would allow.
Men were sent in all directions for 50 or 60 miles, on all the rail-
roads-to all the towns on the coast, including those on both sides
of the Cape.
We searched over land and water, and under water. We pub-
lished and circulated 28,000 copies of four handbills. The first
merely stated that Dr. Parkman was missing. It was published on
Sunday, the 25th. The second, published on Monday, the 26th,
offered a reward of $3000 for the discovery of Dr. Parkman.
The third offered a reward of $100 for the recovery of a watch,
without saying whose watch it was. It was a watch that had been
in the possession of Dr. Parkman.
The fourth was published Nov. 28th, and offered a reward of
$1000 for the discovery of Dr. Parkman's remains. I first heard of
the discovery of remains at the Medical College on Friday, Nov. 30,
in the afternoon. Went immediately to the Medical College. We
went into the cellar room of the latter, and thence down a trap. Little-
field, Trenholm, Clapp, and I, went down together. The trap-door is
on the same level with Mr. Littlefield's apartment, in what might
be called the basement of the building. We passed a good distance
below, and over an uneven surface, for about 60 feet, to ~a corner.
In this corner there was a cross wall, in which there was a hole made
about 18 inches square; the mortar and bricks lay around, as if
freshly broken down from the wall.
When we came up to the corner where the hole was cut in the wall,
we got a light, and I took the lamp and reached into the hole, and looked
about. I saw what I thought pieces of flesh. The water from a sink
was running and spattering about. When all had looked in who
wished, I asked Trenholm and Littlefield to go in and pass out what
they could find. We got a board, and they passed out, to the hands
of Mr. Clapp, three 'parts of a body. I asked, as a matter of form,
of Dr. Bigelow, if these were parts of a human body; and he said yes.
I then inquired whether it was part of one which had been prepared
for dissection. He said it was not. I asked Littlefield whether there
was any entrance to the vault below, except through the privy hole,
and the aperture in the wall, at which we stood. He replied that there
was not. We brought the remains out, and placed them in the apart-
ments above, on the same floor with the laboratory. I went into an-
other room, while.the men searched the laboratory and lecture-room.
I afterwards went up stairs, (having been told by the men that they
had found something.) I then went into the lower laboratory, and
the officers with me. I stopped near the furnace. I saw officer
Clapp with something like bones, which I ordered to be let alone
until a commissioner of the Court could take them into his charge. I
then sent for Professor Webster, and in the mean time went back to
the house of Robert G. Shaw.
[Mr. Tukey here opened a box which he had had in his custody
since the contents were found. It contained miscellaneous matters:;
among them, parts of bones calcined, and stuck among shag, or the
vitrified remains of coal or other mineral substances, which. had. been:
burnt. A knife, with a silver hilt and sheath, was also among the con.
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