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that the Marshal had been to him about it, and asked him if he paid
such a bill to Dr. Parkman ; but that he replied, he could not swear
to it. After he went away, I went back into the building, and Tren.
holm was to call in twenty minutes or half an hour; my wife was to
keep strict watch at the door.
After getting down, I used the crowbar, and not the chisel, and
soon knocked the remaining bricks through ; it might be five minutes.
I bad difficulty to get a light through the hole, on account of the draft
of air; when I got the light in, there was no trouble from the draft.
On holding the light, I saw the pelvis of a man, and two pieces of
legs. I came up, and told my wife. She spoke to me first, and asked
we what was the matter. [Objected to by prisoner's counsel.]
Mr. Clifford contended that he had a right, as the witness had
been charged with a conspiracy, to prove his condition, and he now
asked him what that condition was.
Mr. Merrick said the prisoner's counsel did not object to that ques-
tion, but to his testifying what his wife said.
Witness. I was violently agitated. I locked the trap-door, and went
to see Dr. Jacob Bigelow. He was not at home; but Mrs. Bigelow
asked me what was the matter. I then went down to Henry J. Big-
elow's, in Chauncey-place. He told me to go along with him to Mr.
Shaw's, in Summer-street-Robert G. Shaw, Jr's. house We went
down into his study. Mr. Shaw sent for the Marshal, and he came.
The Marshal told me to go back to the College, and be would soon be
there. I went to Dr. J. B. S. Jackson's in Bedford-place, wrote my
name on the slate, and got back to the College before the rest. Mr.
Trenholm was there; he had been down and made some discoveries.
The hole I dug in the wall was about three feet from the ground, eigh-
teen inches one way, and a foot the other.
The ground under the privy was lower from the floor than the
ground in the cellar where I dug; the ground under the privy shelved
from the wall. The remains were not perpendicularly under the privy-
hole, but thrown out from it forward a little. There is no aperture
where the parts were found, by which anything but tide-water can come
in. The wall had been pointed with cement the year before. The
tide came in underneath through the broken stone placed around to
keep the wall from spreading. The receptacle for offal of the dissect-
ing-room was meant to be tight, but lets the tide in; it would not let
anything else in or out; the tide soaks through the brick.
Attorney General. You said Mr. Trenholm had been down and
made discoveries. How could that be, when you locked the door and
put the key in your pocket?
Witness. My wife had a key.
Attorney General. Were you in the laboratory when the Marshal
thought he heard Dr. Webster above, and went up with his revolver?
Witness. Yes.
Attorney General. What was the noise?
Witness. It was my wife and children running. I was there when
they brought Dr. Webster; went to the door, and saw a carriage and
several gentlemen. Officer Spear came to me and said, °1 We have
got Dr. Webster here, and he is very faint; we want some water for
him, and to get him into the College as soon as we cap." He was
altogether supported by the officers ; did not seem to have the use of
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