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Mr. John Bryant met me immediately after. He is a watchman,
and I made an observation to him that that was Dr. Webster. Dr.
Webster might have touched me in passing. I first called it to
mind the day after Dr. Webster's arrest. The theatre coaches come
out from eleven to twelve o'clock. I am confident it was past eleven,
from the direction I took on my round, which I never take till after
eleven o'clock, unless something unusual calls me.
Cross-examination. I mentioned this to Mr. Bryant on Saturday.
I am a watchman. I was on that part of my round which I do not
take till after eleven o'clock. I fix the hour in my mind from that
circumstance. I don't know how many persons got out of the coach.
I don't recollect how many went the way he did. I don't know
whether there were any ladies who'got out with him. I could not
say that it was, or was not, Wednesday. I have never set any night.
It was not Thanksgiving day; for that was pleasant, and this evening
was somewhat hazy.
I don't know it was not Tuesday. It was either Monday, Tues-
day, or Wednesday. I passed him as he got out of the coach, and I
turned round and walked behind him. He walked faster than I did.
I followed him nearly to his house. but could only see him as far as
the upper end of Graduate Hall, where the bank is. When the
coach stopped, I was right against the wheel-horses, and was looking
at the people getting out of the coach. I know Dr. Webster by sight,
but do not speak to him. The moon was obscured at that time, but
it was as light as a starlight night. I met him; he came towards me,
and I was standing still at the time. I turned round then. The first
person I spoke to, after that, was Mr. Bryant. , After passing Graduate
Hall, there is a street running down to the left; that is Church-street.
The theatre omnibuses run every night; it is a common thing. They
run to accommodate persons who have been in Boston to the theatre.
DR. DANIEL HARWOOD, sworn. - I am a dentist, and have been in
practice here since 1829, except from April 1841, to January 1847.
I atn a member of the Massachusetts Medical. Society. I have always
been very busily occupied with my business. I was one of the first to
manufacture mineral teeth extensively, though perhaps not the first.
There are characteristics generally about teeth, by which a dentist
would be as likely to know his own works, as a sculptor would be to
recognize his own statues, or a merchant his own writing. I mean
to say this is generally so.
Where there are several teeth, or a block, they are called large work.
Single teeth would depend upon composition for their identification;
but in blocks, on the form and combination, as well as composirion.
I should not like to say I could distinguish Dr. Keep's work certainly,
but I think I could commonly identify his work. When I see patients
with artificial teeth fixed by several dentists, I am in the habit of
saying,
°° This is Dr. Keep's work; and this, another's ;" calling over the names
of the different dentists who I think made them. The assistant in
my laboratory is also able to detect the work of different individuals,
by their form and composition.
[The block of mineral teeth found in the furnace was here shown
to the witness.]
These teeth have been so changed, and so covered by foreign sub-
stances, that I should not wish to state with positiveness that they are
Dr. Keep's work. I have the impression that Dr. Morton, and Dr. Kel-
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