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6f this quantity, Dr.- (day separated 47 grails; Mr. Andrews, 81 5-100
grain, and myself 45
-6-lGgrains. Have been,acquainted with Professor Webster several years; we
visited each
other often in a friendly way. ,
[Here the singularly-formed knife was exhibited.]
I have seen that knife in Professor Webster's laboratory; saw it there
before Parknoan'a dis-
appearance; when I saw the knife at the laboratory, after the disappearance
of Dr. P.,-there
was a small quantity of oil and whiting on it, as though it had been
recently oleaoied.
There is a small portion of oil and whiting on the knife blade now, similar
to that I observed
on it at the laboratory on Saturday, Dec. 18,.1849. I think the cover of
the furnace was suffi-
ciently tight to keep the odor of any burning substance from. getting into
the room.
Cross-examined.-The drops on the wall and staircase were nitrate of
copper-;- alri,gertain of
it; knowing Dr. P.; to be missing, I should have no reason to believe that
those wenhis remains
found in the Medical College; there was nothing that indicated that the
parts had been boiled in
potash. I foundcaustic potash on both ends'and sides of the thorax, but
none in the interior of
it. A body-dissolved in nitric-acid would become liquid-a thick yellow
liquid; flesh would
dissolve in nitric acid quicker than bones; the bottles seen by me in the
laboratgry, were near
full at-the time ; was there do Saturday and Sunday. The splashes. of
nitrate of copper on the
walls, could not have been made a great while when I first saw them; the
colors would slave
been different if they had been there longer, for their color has changed
much since 'Wit time.
To the Court --A few minutes of the joint action of potash and fire would
be all the time re-
quisite to soften the flesh of the thorax- and thigh to the degree that it
was softened',qhen first
found. I took apiece of the Norway pine, on which were the spots supposed
to be blood' from
the staircase, which I now produce, and subjected them to the action of
nitrate of copper, but
did not. ascertain by that process whether the spots were caused by blood
or not. "'
RICHARD CROSBY, called.-I am assistant to Dr. Jackson; am a practical ch '
rofes-
jlba. I analyzed the arteries and veins and their contents, taken from the
re at the
IKedical College to discover if there was any arsenic, Acid, or chloride of
zinc i the
rorult'alitowed.the negative. I analyzed the drops of nitrate of copper,
and 'the robo-
rated that obtained by Dr. Jackson.
'Dr. NATHAarC.7 gglcr,DCirtieC, ealled.=I am a dentist, and was acquainted
with Dr. George
Psi';; attended him on an occasion when he was sick, in 1825 ; I have known
him ever since.
VWre*hs shown me, some time since, a block of mineral teeth; it was on the
Monday after
Thanksgiving-day the teeth were shown to me; I recognized them to be the
teeth made by me
for Dr. P. in 1846; there was a great peculiarity in Dr. P, 1s Jaw, and the
peculiar structure of
it left an impression on my mind; when I made the teeth for tr. P. he was
in a, great hurry_J%r
them; :he saidAhnthe-was going to speak at the opening oŁ the Medical
Collee in N. Grove
street, and that there was- but two days intervening before the day on
which the College would
bil opened. -
&e ordered that the utmost skill that could be-employed should be exercised
in the construe-
tion of the teeth. He said if he could not have the teeth then, he did not
want them at .411. I
*en't to work in the usual manner, to take an impression of each jaw. This
was done lby put-
ting soft wax into the mouth, and pressing with a piece of metal upon it
until it becomes chilled
this is then taken out, and a liquid plaster is carefully poured into the
mold thus made, and .;
the form corresponds ezactlly with the jaw an- which the mold is made.
[Here the plaster cast R
of Dr. Parkmas'sjax.was exhibited and explained -b7;Dr.=Keep:-
There were apparent fat similes of four natural aled'tilreI t stamps of
test&; with the dart thus
obtained, an impression or mold is made in a preparation of foundry ean*;
and a east correa-
pondin,& with the original plaster cast is afade in zinc or brass; by
various other processes the
teeth are formed, and the gold insertion plate affixed to them; there is a
great, resemblance be-
tween the, piece of haw found in the furnace of the laboratory, and the
mold takes by me of
'Di. P.'s javi.in 1846. ,t ;
I had to work all the night before the Medical College was opened, is order
to the teeth
finished; I got them done duet 30 minutes before the ceremonies of opening
the Meal College
4pmmeaced. -. ; ,.
j$ere the City bells rang for $re sad it being eYlnounoed that the Tremont
House watts on fire,
the Court granted as intermissiog to`allow the :Kttoraby (~eneza'1; who
boarded at the`Tremont,
to saRe his papers which were deposited there. At 20 Ipintitea pastT2'
b'clock the Court qutered,.
the J`iliy was~re-summo7red, and the proaeediagsreelimed:~ " --w" nw aaie-
~zammation of Dr. Beep continued.-I had just ~isie to Shish the blocks of
teethbefore the
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