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try. First time I beard of his being missing, was the first night it
was advertised in the papers.
DR.. LESTER NOBLE, sworn. -I was an assistant of Dr. Keep, in
1846, and remained in his service until 1849. Am now pursuing
my studies in Baltimore; am a student at the Baltimore College.
Recollect working upon teeth for Dr. Parkman; it was in the autumn
of 1846.
[Here he was shown the mould of Dr. Parkman's teeth, and recog-
nized his hand-writing on it.]
Yes this is my hand-writing-« Dr. Parkman, in October, 1846."
1 did recognize these teeth. Was called to the Attorney General's
room ; the blocks were brought in under seal, and there I eyamined
them. They were delivered to me for safe-keeping, and I have kept
them in my pocket since, until they were called for to-day. The
circumstances accompanying my recognition of them were, in the first
place, the general shape of the block, which was the same that I
remember to have worked upon for Dr. Parkman. Also I found on
the inside a surface which appeared to be ground. At the moment I
saw it, I recollected that this block of Dr. Parkman's teeth had been
ground in the same way ; that I saw Dr. Keep grind them. It was
after the doctor had worn them, after he had been to the Medical
College with them, that he said his tongue was incommoded.
I have every reason to believe that the blocks were Dr. Parkman's
teeth, and no reason to believe that they were not; have as good
reason to believe it as any other fact. I have not the slightest doubt
that they were the blocks I worked upon for Dr. Parkman. We
were obliged to be very prompt, in making the teeth, to the time
of an appointment by Dr. Parkman. They had to be ready at the
time, because Dr. Parkman was sure to be there at the very moment
he appointed. The time of the appointment for their being finished
was, when he wished to attend a meeting at the Medical College.
An accident which occurred in blocking spoiled a part of the front
block ; it occasioned the necessity of remaking it, which, of course,
caused delay, so that we bad to work upon them a large portion of
the night; remember that I worked upon them almost all night.
We got them finished just in time for Dr. Parkman to go over to the
College with them. I went myself, ini order that I might see, when
the doctor had occasion to speak, how well he used them. Think it
was in the early part of November, that the Medical College was
opened. I rather think he did not speak; merely, when complimented
for his generosity, by Governor Everett, he acknowledged it with a
bow, yet I am not confident but what he said a few words. I under-
stood that he had been liberal in a donation by furnishing the
ground, etc.
Here the Court adjourned.
AFTERNOON.
The Court and Jury came in at half past three o'clock.
DR. NOBLE - exanianation resumed. - The Medical College was
opened in the early part of November. It was in the early part of
my studies that I worked on Dr. Parkman's teeth; I began about the
11th of September. We first take the impression in wax. I made
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