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had better send for a physician. The lock-up is under the office, not
in the jail proper. Mr. Clapp thought it was not best to send for a
doctor, unless the prisoner got worse, but to attend to him ourselves.
We had to lay him into his berth. He laid on his side, and turned
over on to his face. He appeared like a man in a fit, though I never
saw a man just so in my life.
I saw Dr. Webster again, at the Medical College, about three
quarters of an hour after. Dr. Webster, Mr. Parker, Mr. Clapp, and
several others, were in the upper laboratory when I arrived. I only
saw two doors broken open. One was a privy door.
Some one asked where the furnace was, and Mr. Littlefield walked
towards it. The Doctor appeared very much agitated in the labora-
tory. Not so much so up stairs as down stairs. I went down with
Mr. Littlefield, and handed up the remains to Mr. Hopkins. I doq't
remember that the Doctor said anything, but he asked for some water.
He tried to drink, but spilt it all out. The remains were brought out
by the scuttle door, and there the Doctor stood, looking at them. I
was at the Medical College daytimes, but not nights, after the remains
were found. I found fish-hooks and twine.
[The fish-hooks and twine were here shown to the Jury.]
[The fish-hooks here shown were apparently the size of the largest
kind of cod-hooks, of nearly five inches in length. Three of them
were bound together with stout twine, or marline, so as to form a
grapple; and, a little above the place where they were joined, was a
piece of lead, of about four or five ounces in weight. Some three or
four more were shown, of the same size; some single, and some bound
together. With one of the bunches there was a heavy sinker, per-
haps weighing six or eight ounces. The twine was heavy and stout,
of about one half the size of an ordinary clothes-line.]
These were all found, just as they are, in Dr. Webster's private
room, on Friday night. I took them on Saturday. Saturday there
was a general search. They were rolled up in a newspaper, all in
one bundle. They were in a large closet,,on a shelf. The twine
was as it is now. The lead was found with them.
I was in the upper laboratory in the afternoon of Saturday, and
heard my name called by some one below, and went into the lower
laboratory. There I saw Mr. Fuller bringing a tea-chest, from the
front part of the lower laboratory, out into the middle of the room.
He emptied out a thigh, and other parts, with a quantity of twine
round the thigh. I cut a piece of it off.
[The twine was here produced.] It all came from the thigh.
[Some twenty-four skeleton keys were here offered to the witness by
the Prosecuting Attorney.] These keys, except one, I found in Dr.
Webster's back private room, on a shelf, tied up as they now are.
These keys - [Answer objected to by Counsel for the defence, as not
having sufficient connection with the subject-matter of investigation;
but the Court ruled that the evidence in regard to the keys was
admissible.]
There is a key fitting the dissecting-room. That key fits the door
of Dr. Webster's lecture-room, and store-room door. The second key
fits the outer lecture-room door, and bears marks of being filed. The
third key fits front door, and the door underneath the steps ; a brass
key. They were all found together, in the back private room. These
are all the keys that I know anything about.
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