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both sides. I carried it down stairs into the laboratory, and set it
up against the box in the centre of the laboratory. I have never
seen anything of it since, though I have hunted the building all over.
I do not remember anything particular till quarter before two o'clock,
when, after I had eaten my dinner, I was standing in the front entry,
looking out at the front door. I thought, before the Coroner's Inquest,
that it was about half past one ; but, reflecting upon it, 1 remembered
that that day I had examined the tickets at Dr. Holmes' door, which
would make it quarter of an hour later. I saw Dr. Parkman approach-
ing the College, in North Grove-street, abreast of Fruit-street, walking
very fast. I entered Dr. Ware's lecture-room, and lay on the settee
nearest the register, and nearest the door, waiting for Dr. Holmes' lec-
ture to finish, to help fasten his doors and clear away his things.
I did not hear any one enter Dr. Webster's lecture-room. The
front door was open till after the lectures, that day. Dr. Ware's lec-
ture-room door was closed. That and Dr. Webster's lecture-room door
close by a spring.
After putting away Dr. Holmes' things, I came down and locked
the front door. About quarter past two o'clock, Dr. Holmes went out.
He is generally the last one to go out of the building. Then I went
down stairs to prepare the furnaces for the next day. I always sift
the coal out in the afternoon. I cleared out the furnaces that
warmed the anatomical and medical lecture-rooms. They are both in
the cellar, close under the front steps. I then went up and cleared
out the stove in the back private room of the medical lecture-room.
There are three lecture-rooms. The anatomical, up stairs; the chem-
ical and medical, below - the former in the west, and the latter in the
east wing.
I then went down to Dr. Webster's laboratory door, to clear up his
room-the door that leads to my cellar-the door under the stairs
leading from Dr. W ebster's small room to his laboratory- under the
laboratory stairs. I found that door bolted on the inside. I then went
round to the next door, that led to his laboratory, and found that fast.
Put in my key; found I could not get in, and that it was bolted. I
heard him in there walking. I heard the Cochituate water running.
Went up stairs, and tried the door that led into the lecture-room from
the front entry.
I found the door locked; it was bolted on the inside. I went into
my kitchen; stopped a while, and laid down. About four o'clock, a
young lady called; came into my bedroom, and told me there was a
gentleman at the door who wanted to see me. I went to the door, and
found Mr. Pettee, of the New England Bank, collector of tickets. He
wanted me to fill out a course of tickets for a student who was about
to leave town; the student was Mr. Ridgeway. He gave me the
tickets, all but Dr. Webster's; I took the money for Webster's tick-
ets. After Pettee went away, in about fifteen minutes, I went to Dr.
Webster's door and found it fastened. Did not try again that day, till
late at night. My object in going was to do his work up, wash his
Flasseh, and fix his fires. In the evening, about half past five o'clock,
was called out of my kitchen, and heard some one coming down the
back stairs that led from the front entry. It was Dr. Webster; he had
a candlestick in his hand, and a candle burning; he never did
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