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prisoner after his arrest, and were tied to a piece of twine similar to
that on the leg of the body found.
The prisoner's counsel still objected, and the keys were withdrawn.]
Mr. Littlefield. I was not present when the towels were found by an
officer. I have sometimes been in the dissecting-room, and got for Dr.
Webster a small piece of muscle, as big as my finger, to experiment
upon. Other than that, F have never known him have any occasion
for anything from the dissecting-room. I have heard noises from him
from explosions of pistols by galvanic batteries, and bladders filled with
gas; by filling and setting fire to them, they would go off as loud as
cannon. I helped to hang them up, fix them ; used to stay to hear him
explode them.
[The towels, as they were found in the vault, were shown the wit-
ness, and he identified them.
The cross-examination was about to be commenced when the Court
adjourned.]
FIFTH DAY. - Saturday, ATarch 23.
Cross-examination by Mr. Sohier. What hour, on the evening of
Monday, November 19th, was it that Dr. Parkman came to the College?
'Mr. Littlefield. It was not dark out of doors, but Prof. Webster
had lights. I was in the upper laboratory, and saw Dr. Parkman
come in. He went out the same way that he came in. When he
came in, I was standing by the stove. Dr. Webster was at his table.
When he first spoke, Dr. Webster seemed surprised. Dr. Parkman
said, "Are you ready for me now?" or "to-night?" Professor Web-
ster said, r' No, I ain't, Doctor." Dr. Parkman accused him either
of selling something that was mortgaged, or of mortgaging something
that was sold. He mentioned somebody's name; I believe Mr. Shaw's,
but can't be sure. Dr. Parkman, as be went out said, " Something
must be done to-morrow." He staid, perhaps, half an hour.
PIr. Sohier. You say on Friday evening, November 23d, you
took the broom. Where did you take it from?
Mr. Littlefield. I don't know; there was no particular place for it.
Put it back behind the door. Saw the sledge. It was one that a
workman left. It was a sledge, I supposed, for breaking up stone.
It was left by a mason, who came to tear down a flue. . Saw the sledge
after the workmen were there, but never saw it before. Did not know
that it was sent from Cambridge. The two faces of the sledge were
rounded. Did not say that one was flat, and the other rounded.
Never used the sledge. Searched for the sledge all over the building,
and under the building, after Dr. Webster's arrest. There was a
smaller sledge there, weighing two or three pounds. That is there now.
i dine at one o'clock, during Dr. Holmes' lecture. I said before,
I dine just at one, and he begins his lecture at one. I ring his bell
first. Was detained, on Friday, November 23d, by examining Dr.
Holmes' tickets. Suppose it took me fifteen minutes. - Took the tickets
in my hand. Stood there till the class went in. They made a consid-
erable rush ; recollect I got crowded out of the door two or three times.
Several students usually remain in the chemical lecture-room far
some time after the hour, and I waited for them.
On the same Friday noon, when I lay down on the settee, the
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