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tion of the behavior of Prof. W. on that night. It was different from what
I ever saw before.
He appeared like a mad creature. When the water was offered to him he
seemed to snap at it
;with his teeth, and then he pushed it away, as though it was very
offensive to him. Prof. . ap-
peared more calm whilst in the upper room, than while in the laboratory. I
went into the cellar
-through a trap door, and saw the remains brought out through the privy
vault. I noticed that
the professor was very much agitated at the time. After the prisoner had
returned to'
the jail, the
remains were carried into the laboratory of Prof. W. Don't remember whether
it was before or
after Prof. W. was carried to the jail. I made no further search that
night. Don't know what
the officers did. Summoned a jury to sit in inquest on the remains at 4
o'clock, P. M. on the
neat day. I took out the contents of the furnace either before or after the
session of the Jury.
Can't say exactly which of the police officers assisted me in taking out
the contents of the fur-
nace. I directed the officers to take out all the pieces of metal and bones
which they
could find among the slugs ; there were some pieces of metal and bones
which they could not
find among the slugs that looked like lead, and some that looked like gold;
after taking out a
little more than half the contents of the furnace, I found that there was a
considerable quantity
of fragments sticking to the brict.s ; the fragments were not very large.
At this juncture the court ^ "JJourned until half-past three o'clock.
Afternoon Sesslon.
-;, The Court came in at 2r. i_.inutes before 6 o'clock.
JABTZ PRATT, Coroner, recalled-There was a piece of an artificial jaw with
some mineral
teeth found it 'he furnace near the bottom. There were two or three other
teeth found among the
Cinders. These teeth were put by my orders into the hands of Dr. Winslow
Lewis. The teeth
were about two-thirds of the way from the top of the furnace. The furnace
was about a foot in
depth. A considerable portion of the ashes and cinders was put. by my
orders in the hands of
surgeons and scientific men. Don't know what portion of the bones Dr. Wyman
took ; that mat-
ter was settled among the Doctors themselves. Some of the bones were put
into a box for safe
keeping. All of them had not been taken out of the slugs. They were taken
out about 9 or 10
o'clock, A. M. and before the Jury of inquest was summoned. Don't recollect
what officers were
left in charge of the College. Can't undertake to say what the bones were
that were found in
the furnace. I have in my custody a tin box made by Mr. Waterman for
Webster after the disap-
p6arance of Parkman. While we were taking out the cinders from the furnace
the teeth fell
Ahrough the grate.
-[The tin box with the cover, in which some of the bones were found, were
here produced and
shown to the Court and the Jury. The box measured about 2 feet in length,
by 18 inches in
v,idth, anti about a foot high. It was heavily soldered at the different
joinings, and appeared
mite new. Its production in the court created some stir and excitement in
the gallery, and at
the same time the multitude outside Court loudly shouted.]
-- Cross-examined-Can't tell what the.substance sticking to the sides of
the furnace was com-
posed of; I broke them off the day they were discovered, and they fell
among the ashes; there
were pieces of boles in the fragtnetits broken off; don't recollect what
officers were left in charge
of the College; I did not go as far as the hole made by Littlefield in the
wall of the vault.
Dr. WINSLOw LEwis, called-I was at the Medical College on Saturday, the day
after the ar-
"sst of Prof. W.; Dr. Charles T. Jackson, Dr. Martin Gay, Dr. James W.
Stone, were there also;
the Coroner sent for me to attend ; Dr. Stone took charge of the bones and
of the pantaloons,
supposed to have blood on them; Dr. Stone Gec. H. Gay and myself undertook
to furnish a re-
port upon the peculiarity of the parts of the body found in the College.
o- .'(Here the report was produced. Ti:e signature of Dr. Lewis exhibited
to, and acknowledged
by him, and the report was read by the junior counsel for the Government,
Geo. Bemis, Esq.
A diagram, also, was exhibited by Dr. Lewis, meanwhile, and the report was
illustrated to the
Jury by means of it ],
THE REMAINS FOUND IN THE MEDICAL COLLEGE.
No.' -Represents the vertebrae and thoracic cavity which is charted, and
contains the lungs.
- Rio. 2.-Represents the pelvic cavity, covered by flesh in its lower part.
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-No. 3.-The right thigh disarticulated from the pelvis.
No. 4.-The left thigh disarticulated from the pelvis.
No. 5.-The left leg disarticnlated from the thigh and foot.,
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