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the left. We then passed on to the laboratory. He said, " This is
my private laboratory, gentlemen."
When we got down to the foot of the stairs, Mr. Clapp asked, turn-
to the privy, « What place is this?" Mr. Littlefield answered," Mr.
Webster's private privy." At same time, Dr. Webster said, '° Gen-
tlemen, here is another room." We passed on, taking very little
notice of what was in the lower laboratory. I did not mind what
there was there. I noticed Dr. Webster hurried us through the
rooms. After we looked at the main vault, I then passed on with
Mr. Littlefield, who took a lantern, and went down into a scuttle,
through an arch under the building and went to the corner by the
privy. I asked Mr. Littlefield if that was the outside wall. He
said it was the privy wall. There was no hole there at that time.
There was some short conversation between Mr. Littlefield and my-
self, there. I have been under Dr. Webster's laboratory two separate
times, and have examined the walls about the cellar. There is an
access to the tide in the cellar. Since the arrest, I have been through
the hole in the brick wall.
I am the officer who found remains in the tea-chest. I had been
searching, Saturday, 30th November, from half past eight till a few
minutes before four. i had seen the chest once before. Mr. Rice,
Trenholm, Butman, and others, were there; there were some six or
eight of them. I told them that I would take that side of the build-
ing, and search everything. I looked over the bottles, &c., in the
laboratory. 1 looked at the box, and thought it was where he kept
his minerals ; but as I meant to search everything, I commenced tak-
ing off some of the minerals. The writing on the labels looked fresh,
and after.I had taken out a few minerals, I noticed some tan; and I
then run down my hand through the minerals into the tan. I put
my hand into the tan as far as my wrist, and drew out a large knife;
opened it, looked at it, shut it, and put it into my pocket. I made a
remark, that I thought that there was something besides minerals there.
I then took the chest out into middle of the room, and turned it out,
and there were the remains of a human body, - a thorax and other
arts. When the contents of the chest came out, the back was up, as
turned out the remains. I found a hole in the trunk, in the left
breast, about the region of the heart. The tan was scraped off by
the hand. Some one took up a stick to scrape it off; I told them not
to touch it till the Coroner had been called. I made a remark, that I
thought the knife would fit the wound; but I did not try it.
[The tea-chest in which the remains were found was here shown
to the Jury. It is a common one, without the lead lining. Three
sides of it are covered with heavy marks of blood on the inside, as
though the wood was well saturated with it.]
I also found a kidney. There were some bed-clothes found in the
lower laboratory, on the table. There was a comforter, and two
woollen blankets. I found them near the window, done up in a news-
paper. Should not think any of them had ever been used; they
were new. I remained in these rooms five weeks, lacking one day-
from early in the morning to eleven o'clock at night. We allowed
no one in without a permit from the City Marshal or the Mayor. I
watched Littlefield very closely, and did not allow him to move an inch
without watching him, as I was ordered. The privy hole was nine
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