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PLAN OF THE GROUND FLOOR.
DISSECTING ROOM.
PASSAGE wnv.
LITTLEFIELD STORF- ROW.
Examination of .Mr. Tukey resumed.-We looked into the vault, through the
hole, and could
hear the water splashing in the vault, and there saw the remains, as first
discovered; after look-
ing at them a few moments, I ordered officer Trenholm and Littlefield to
enter the privy as#
bring out the parts of the body ; Littlefield went to get a plank, and they
entered and brought
forth the remains; I asked Dr. Bigelow if those were parts of a human body,
he replied that
they were; I asked him if that was a proper place for them to be put in; he
said " no;" who]&
Littlefield and officer Trenholm were in the vault, we heard some one
walking above us; Little=
field came out of the vault and said that Dr. W. was 'in his room then;
with that, we went up
stairs and searched the building, asking the officers first if all was
secured about. They then
replied yes; by my orders, the officers then looked all over the building,
but found no one---
asked the officers if they had searched the Lecture-room-they said yea; we
dent also to the
Laboratory and it was discovered that Prof. W, was not there, when we went
there and looked
into the large furnace; about that time I saw Constable.Clapp with
something in his hand; I ex=
amined it tend saw that it was a slug, or cinder of coal wised with
fragments of bones; the bob
containing the bones that were found in the furnace, was here exhibited to
the Court, by the
witness, also a large knife, which he stated he found on the premises. The
production of theeq
articles created a thrilling sensation and general buzzing noise in the
gallery. The blade of #3e
knife was somewhat like that of a large Bowie knife, extremely pointed. -
Cross-examined.-The first hand-bill was written by me, I think, on Saturday
night, but wed
not printed till Sunday. On entering the apertures made through the brick
wall, we were about
one foot from a line with the hole of the privy overhead. The remains were
lying a little one
side from a direct line with the hole of the privy. Can't tell the precise
distance--can't may
which particular piece of the remains was most directly in a line with the
hole ; they lay a little
toward the north wall. The hole in the privy was eighteen inches wide.
By Government.-Can't say whether the tide ebbs and flows into the vault;
the foundation
walls of the building are strong and compact enough to exclude any solid
object, but cannot tow
whether or no the tide could enter; don't know whether or no the inner
walls of the vault head
any projections or not; did not enter the privy vault.
CaLVirr G. MOORE called.-Reside at the corner of Fine and Bride streets ;
kept a grocery
store opposite my house; saw Doctor Parkman on the afternoon of Friday, the
23d of November,
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