perforation in the region of the heart, some instrument having glanced from one of the ribs and penetrated in the direction of the heart. To these remains there had been an application of strong alkalis, but no injection of the veins with any preservative fluid, as is done for automical purposes. This shows that it could not have been a part of a subject of dissection. And for another reason it could not have been, for all such subjects were strictly accounted for. It will also be shown that the parts of the body had been separated by some person who had a certain amount of anatomical skill.

We come now to the inquiry, was Dr. Parkman murdered by the prisoner? This inquiry will lead us back to the consideration of facts long prior to the disappearance of Dr. Parkman. We shall offer evidence to show the relation existing between the prisoner and Dr. Parkman, and there were pecuniary transactions between them which we shall notice. In 1842, and ever since that period, Dr. Webster has been always embarrassed in his financial affairs, often reduced to great straits, so much so that at the time when these occurrences which we are investigating took place, all the personal property which Dr. Webster had in the world was under the hand of Dr. Parkman.

Dr. Parkman was a large property holder-was accustomed to making loans-and although a liberal man in his donations, was extremely exact in his business matters. He loaned the prisoner, in 1842, the sum of four hundred dollars, and took his note. Things remained in this condition until 1847, when he (Dr. Parkman) made one of a number of gentlemen to lend Dr. Webster money enough to enable him to meet the pressing demands of his creditors; in connection with this transaction, Dr. Parkman took from the prisoner a mortgage of his personal property, including his household furniture, and cabinet of minerals. This mortgage served also to secure the balance due to him on the four hundred dollars he had lent in 1842, that balance being $456.27. Such was the relation of Dr. Parkman and Dr. Webster, when Dr. Parkman received information that the property mortgaged by Dr. Webster

had been sold to his (Dr. Parkman's) brother-in-law, Robert G. Shaw, while under mortgage to himself.

Dr. Webster had made application to Robert G. Shaw, to raise money on loan, and offering as security these minerals, which were mortgaged already to Dr. Parkman, representing his necessity as being so urgent, that an officer had been about to enter his house and take his household property for debt. Mr. Shaw, having no knowledge of the above transactions with Dr. Parkman, had agreed to advance to Dr. Webster the sum of $1200, and he did advance it, as I believe, in different amounts.

Dr. Parkman, learning of this conveyance of these minerals by Dr. Webster to his brother-in-law, was of course highly incensed. He regarded it as an act of fraud on the part of the prisoner, and he determined to compel him to pay his debt. The evidence will satisfy you, gentlemen, that from this time he constantly pursued him as a creditor who felt that his confidence had been injured, and regarded himself as fraudulently deceived. It will probably also prove to you, gentlemen, that Dr. Webster had obtained further and further delay from Dr. Parkman, under the promise to pay him when he had received the proceeds of the tickets for his lectures at the Medical College.

Dr. Webster was a professor at Harvard College, and also a lecturer at the Medical College; the compensation for his services there, depended entirely, I understand (I may be mistaken), upon the sales of tickets. The professors of that institution (the Medical College) had made an arrangement with a very respectable person, Mr. Pettit, to act as their collector from the students.

These lectures commenced this last season on the seventeenth day of November. Dr. Parkman, as early and as promptly as the ninth of November, having in view the resolution which he had formed of compelling Dr. Webster to pay his debt, and having yet in his memory the fraudulent proceedings of Dr. Webster, as before mentioned, calls upon him and insists upon the payment of his debt. Dr. Webster requests

him to wait further, under the pretext that he had not received the money for his tickets yet, and induced him, according to his own statement, to make a still further delay.

It will appear, gentlemen, that when Dr. Webster did receive the proceeds of his tickets he gave it to other purposes than the payment of Dr. Parkman's debt. He gave it for the payment of other debts due to his brother professors, Dr. Bigelow and others. Dr. Parkman still pursuing him and not satisfied with his explanations, on the twelfth of November calls on Mr. Pettit, the collecting agent, to ascertain himself in what condition Dr. Webster's affairs might be at that time, and what were the proceeds of the sale of Dr. Webster's tickets.

He calls again on Mr. Pettit on the fourteenth, and then, gentlemen, he threatens a trustee process; he then tells the collector that Dr. Webster is a dishonest and a dishonorable man. On the nineteenth of November, angry, doubtless, he calls upon Dr. Webster again and declares with great decision, almost angrily, that "something must be done about the payment of that debt." On the next morning, the twentieth, Dr. Webster writes him a note, with reference to the same subject. On the twenty-second (Thursday), the day before his disappearance, Dr. Parkman rode out to Cambridge to see Dr. Webster.

These, gentlemen, are the occurrences up to the morning of his disappearance. On that morning, the twenty-third of November, Dr. Webster called at the residence of Dr. Parkman and there made an appointment to meet him at his rooms at half past two o'clock to receive his pay there. He returns himself about nine o'clock that morning to the Medical College and there had an interview with Mr. Pettit, the collector, who, in consequence of what Dr. Parkman had said, was anxious to get out of his hands all money that might have come into them belonging to Dr. Webster. Dr. Webster finds him that morning in the Medical College, and Mr. Pettit there pays him the sum of $90, which was the balance in his hands, and there informs him of Dr. Parkman's proceedings against

him, threatening a trustee process, etc. Dr. Webster then makes a reply to Mr. Pettit, that he will have no more trouble with Dr. Parkman, because he has settled with him. That $90, gentlemen, perhaps I may as well state in this connection as any other, from the beginning to the end, Dr. Webster had held out to Dr. Parkman the expectation of receiving. But not one of the amounts which he received on account of these tickets would have began to pay Dr. Parkman.

This $90 which he received on the morning of the day when he was to have had an interview with Dr. Parkman at the Medical College, was in his possession the next day, and by him deposited in the Charles River Bank. The check received from Mr. Pettit was deposited by Dr. Webster to his own credit in the Charles River Bank.

I was about to remark that Dr. Webster's lecture days were Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. On Saturday and Monday there were no lectures. After the lecture on Friday there should have been no light or fire in his rooms. But it will appear in evidence that Dr. Webster was in his room late on Friday night, and likewise on Saturday and Sunday nights. The doors were then fastened, though they were never known to be so before. The key of one of the doors was not left in its usual place. On Saturday, which was cleaning day, the janitor went into the professor's back room, which is a room in the rear of his lecture room, to get into the laboratory, but Dr. Webster ordered him to go another way.

I have already said, gentlemen, that Dr. Parkman's friends were making anxious search for him in that region of the city. On Saturday, that day, they had published his disappearance in five papers. It will appear that Dr. Webster took one of these five papers that contained the advertisements. It will also appear to you, gentlemen, and this is an important fact, that Dr. Webster's relation to some of the members of Dr. Parkman's family, were somewhat peculiarly intimate. The first disclosure which Dr. Webster makes is an interview which took place between him and Dr. Francis Parkman on

the afternoon of Sunday. During that Saturday night, and during that Sunday morning, the Parkman family were in a state of great anxiety and distress. As late as three or four o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday, Dr. Webster made an intimation to Dr. Francis Parkman, the brother of Dr. George Parkman, that the latter had been with him on Friday, and the manner of making the intimation was very striking and made a deep impression on Dr. Francis Parkman at the time. Dr. Webster also stated to the friends of Dr. Parkman that the latter called on him between one and two o'clock, on Friday, to receive his money, and that on being paid, he seized it, and without leaving any evidence of the payments, was about going. On being called, he took a pen, and drawing it across the signature, ran out, passing down two steps at a time, saying that he would see that the bond was canceled. He said he had no recollection about the money paid, except that among the bills was one of one hundred dollars on the New England Bank. The statements which have been made by Dr. Webster to different persons on this subject, are utterly inconsistent with each other, and show all his representations to have been mere fable and fiction.

You will have, further, to consider a variety of facts in regard to Dr. Webster's conduct during the week. You will recollect that was Thanksgiving week. There were no lectures that week, and it was unusual to have fires then; and yet Dr. Webster was there, and had fires of a more intense heat than had been known before. We shall show you that, as early as Tuesday of that week, he had purchased several large fish-hooks, which will be connected by the evidence, to a certain extent, with these remains; that on Friday he purchased three fish-hooks, with which a sort of grapple was made; that around the thigh bone in the tea-chest was a piece of twine of the same description as that attached to the grapple.

I have already adverted to the conduct and deportment of the prisoner during the week-to the fact that his rooms were searched on Monday and Tuesday. The evidence will show