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tim all parts of the College to which I had access. We then saw Dr.
Jacob Bigelow in the entry. We all went into my parlor and talked.
Dr. Bigelow said, °1 Show them everything." Some one said, " Let
us begin with Dr. Webster's rooms."
I went to the door leading to my cellar, and it was fast. I told them
we must try the other way. Went up to the lecture-room door, and
found it locked ; rapped as loud as I could with my knuckles. Dr.
Webster came and unbolted the door. I told him what the officers
were there for. We all passed in, and down into his lower room. I
think Mr. Clapp went toward the small private room. Dr. Webster said
that was the room where he kept his valuable and dangerous things.
I hardly ever went into that room. Mr. Clapp did not search that room.
We all went down the laboratory stairs. Mr. Clapp looked into a pane
of glass in the privy door, and asked, "What place is this?" Dr.
Webster was then within three feet of him. I told him 1° That is Dr.
Webster's privy; no one has access to it but himself." Dr. Webster
seemed to me to withdraw their attention to another part of the room,
and unbolted another door, that led to the store-room. We all event
out.
Some, one wanted to search the vault where the remains of subjects
are thrown. I told them there was nothing there but what I had
thrown in myself; no one else had access to it; it was always locked,
and I kept the key of it. The vault is a room sunk below the Col-
lege floor, twelve feet square ; the entrance to it two feet square, and
secured by strong locks. We unlocked the access to the vault, and
lowered a lantern into it. All seemed satisfied that there was nothing
there which did not belong there.
We searched over the whole building.; then some one asked if
there was any way of getting under the building. I told of the trap-
door; we got lights, and went down. Fuller and I crawled across to
the back side of the building; there was nothing there but dirt, put
there when the building was made. I pointed Fuller to the wall di-
viding off what was under Dr. Webster's laboratory. I told him that
was the only place which had not been searched, and there was no ac-
cess to it, except by breaking through the floor, or digging through the
wall. They then searched my room.
In the afternoon of the same day, about four o'clock, I was in the
front cellar, under the front steps. I heard Dr. Webster open the
door and come in. About two minutes after, being in the entry, I
heard him come down the laboratory stairs, and unbolt the door
leading into my entry. When I heard him unbolt his door, I went
into my kitchen. As soon as I went in, I heard his bell ring.
I was in the cellar in the forenoon, Thursday. My wife wanted
me to remove the grape-vines, which were getting scattered about; I
attempted to get them into Dr. Webster's room, but could not open tire
door. Went to work on the wall about three o'clock, to get under Dr.
Webster's laboratory near the privy, to satisfy myself and the public.
I could not go outside of the building without everybody- being at me,
sayg that Dr. Parkman would be found in the Medical College, if
hew as ever found anywhere. That was the only place not searched.
I went down the front scuttle ; all the tools I had used were a hatchet
and mortising chisel. I could not do much with such tools; all I did
was to get out two layers of brick.
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