discovery; he said that he could recollect but one bill; a $100 bill on the New England Bank; asked him if they were out-oftown bills or city bills-or large or small denominations. He replied that he could recollect only that one $100 bill; asked him if he had the notes which Dr. Parkman had given up to him; he answered in the affirmative, but in a way which made an unfavorable impression on my mind; his eyes dropped and he did not look me in the face; asked him if any one was present at the interview and he said very emphatically, No. He then turned the conversation to the subject of our families, Fayal, etc., and I shortly after left.

Had been acquainted with the doctor for a good many years; I noticed that his manner was singular on my first entering his room; he seemed to want that cordiality and politeness that are usual to him; thought that he looked pale; he received me in a stiff and formal manner; am confident that he did not put out his hand to me; when speaking of Dr. Parkman's being angry, he stood, fixed to the spot, and seemed to place himself on the defensive, as if waiting to be interrogated; he made no expression of sympathy for the family of Dr. Parkman; said very little about the search, and made no inquiries at all about the family of Dr. Parkman; the interview lasted some fifteen or twenty minutes; he changed his position and manner; went out by the same door at which I entered; heard him bolt the door after me.

after his disappearance till the remains were found. Accompanied Mr. Kingsley to the college, Monday, November 26th; saw Mr. Littlefield and Dr. Bigelow, and Dr. Ainsworth; told them that we had come to look over the college for Dr. Parkman; they offered no objection and we went in. Mr. Littlefield tried Dr. Webster's lecture room door and it was fastened; he knocked on it two or three times, quite hard, and then Dr. Webster came and opened the door. We told him what we came for; he opened the door; we went in, down the steps to the back laboratory, and to the lower laboratory; he followed us down. When we got to the steps of the lower laboratory, Dr. Webster said, This is all my apartments. We merely looked round the rooms and were not there more than three minutes. Was one of the party to arrest Professor Webster on Friday night; Mr. Clapp and Mr. Spurr were with me; the doctor talked very freely while coming in, about the railroad to Cambridge, etc; spoke of a Mrs. Bent, who had seen Dr. Parkman on Friday; he wanted us to drive over to the Port to see her; when we got to the corner of Second street, Dr. Webster remarked, You ought to have turned that corner if you are going to the college; something was said about the driver being green; but I could hear perfectly; I sat on the front seat; doctor sat beside Mr. Clapp on the back seat; arrived at the jail; we got out and went into the back office; Dr. Webster was the first person to speak, and he said, Mr. Clapp, what does this mean? Mr. Clapp said, We have done looking for Dr. Park

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man, and you are in custody for the murder of Dr. Parkman. What! me? says Dr. Webster. Yes, you, Sir, and you are in custody for the murder of Dr. Parkman. Mr. Clapp and Mr. Spurr then left us and said that they would go and see if they could find Mr. Parker and the marshal. Mr. Clapp made out a mittimus, handed it to me and said, Don't commit the doctor until I get back. He had previously searched his person.

Immediately after, Dr. Webster called for a pitcher of water and drank several times. He asked me if they had found Dr. Parkman; told him that I wished he would not ask me any questions, as it was not proper for me to answer them. He said, You might tell me something about it; where did they find him? Did they find the whole of the body? How came they to suspect me? Oh! my children, what will they do? Oh! what will they think of me? Where did you get the information? Asked the doctor if anybody had access to his private apartments but himself. Nobody has access to my private apartments, he replied, but the porter, who makes the fire. The doctor added, That villain! I am a ruined man! There was no further conversation. The doctor would walk the floor and wring his hands and then he would sit down. Saw the doctor put his hand in his vest pocket and put it up to his mouth; he had

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spasm; went to him and said, Doctor, haven't you been taking anything? He replied that he had not; helped him up from the settee, and he walked the floor; was with him about an hour, when Mr. Clapp came

back and told me to commit him; went to him; told him that I must commit him; took hold of his right arm and he could not stand; Mr. Cummings, an attendant, and I, led him to the lock-up; told Mr. Cummings I thought he had been taking something and he had better send for a physician, in the doctor's hearing. Mr. Clapp thought that he had better not send for a physician, but go down every few minutes and look to him.

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Had to lift the doctor up and lay him in his berth; we laid him upon his side and he turned over upon his face; he had spasm every now and then, like a man in a fit; next saw him about three-quarters of an hour afterwards, at the Medical College with Mr. Parker, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Platt, and several others, in the upper laboratory. Some one asked where the furnace was and Mr. Littlefield walked towards it and pointed it out; in the laboratory the doctor appeared very much agitated

-more so than he did upstairs. Have had some fish hooks and twine in my possession which I now produce. These were found as they now are, in Dr. Webster's private room in his upper laboratory. The hooks were arranged in the form of grapples and had attached to them leaden sinkers of a pound's weight, or more; pieces of twine, of perhaps six or eight yards in length, were wound around each; the fish hooks were some six inches long, with a bend an inch or an inch and a half across; took the hooks and twine on Saturday; they were rolled up in a paper on the shelf in the back private room. On Saturday was in the

upper laboratory and saw Mr. Fuller bring out a tea chest; upon the thigh of the body found in it there was a quantity of twine wound round. Found a bunch of skeleton keys, twentyfour in number, mostly new, or bearing marks of recent filing, in Dr. Webster's back private room, in a drawer, tied up, as they now are.

Mr. Bemis. Did you make any trial of the keys, to see what doors of the college they fitted.

Mr. Sohier objected to this evidence as not sufficiently connected with the prisoner.

Mr. Bemis stated that it would be shown that the prisoner had represented that he found the keys in the street, but tied in the same bunch with the skeleton keys were other keys, acknowledged by the prisoner to be his; as the chemical rooms were separated from the rest of the college, and had no necessary connection with the others, as testified by Dr. Holmes, it might become material to show that the prisoner had provided, or designed to provide himself with the means of access to other apartments, besides his own.

The COURT held the testimony admissible.

Mr. Starkweather. This key fits the dissecting room. This, one of the locks of the door between the lecture room and the back room, and this one the store room door; cannot find that the skeleton keys fit any of the locks of the college; these two brass keys (also found in the same drawer of the back private room, but on a separate string), fit the upper and lower front doors; also found in the drawers of the back private room, or rather in a cupboard, which was

painted on the outside so as to resemble drawers

Mr. Sohier. I should like to inquire, before permitting the witness to answer further, what the Government expect to prove in relation to that cupboard?

Mr. Bemis. We expect to show that it contained a considerable quantity and variety of ardent spirits. I will add that I do not know, in candor, that there is any necessary connection between the presence of spirits there and commission of the homicide by the prisoner; but we submit the evidence for what it is worth, as having a possible connection with his acts.

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The COURT held the evidence inadmissible.

Mr. Starkweather. Have heard Dr. Webster make some statement in regard to the skeleton keys; while waiting in the police judge's private room, I said to him in the presence of Mr. Andrews, the jailer, Doctor, I found some keys in your back room. What, says he, those that are filed? I picked them up in Fruit street one day and threw them in there, into the cupboard.

Cross-examined. Found the keys all tied together, as at present, on a shelf in the back private room; did not say to Dr. Webster that I had found skeleton keys; recollect about the doctor proposing to go back for his keys and Mr. Clapp telling him that we had keys enough to gain admission with.

Charles B. Rice. Am a police officer; was one of the party who went to search Dr. Webster's apartments the Tuesday after Dr. Parkman's disappearance, as already described.

Samuel Lane, Jr. Am in the hardware business in this city; saw Dr. Webster in my place of business about the first Monday or Tuesday after Dr. Parkman disappeared; Dr. Webster came in and inquired for fish hooks; replied that we did not keep them and he went out. Mr. Stephen B. Kimball, was clerk in the store with me at the time -the store of Mr. R. C. Warren.

Stephen B. Kimball. Am clerk for Mr. R. C. Warren. Monday or Tuesday of Thanksgiving week Dr. Webster called at the store and inquired for large sized fish hooks.

James W. Edgerly. I am a hardware dealer in this city; remember the time of Dr. Parkman's disappearance; a person came into my store Tuesday following, about night, and inquired for the largest sized fish hooks; he bought and paid for a half dozen; these shown me are the same; I think defendant is the person who bought them of me.

William W. Mead. I am a hardware dealer. On Friday, November 30th, a person came into the store and inquired for fish hooks to make a grapple with; he bought three; I put them together and showed him how to form a grapple. The size was considerably smaller than those produced in court; think that it was Professor Webster, but should not swear positively to it. He was dressed in dark clothing.

William N. Tyler. Am a rope maker and a twine and line manufacturer; for forty-five years; have been called upon frequently to give an opinion as to quality and manufacture twine. The twine shown

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(consisting of specimens from that tied round the thigh, that used with a grapple, and that found on the ball in the back private room) is what is called two-threaded marline; have not the slightest doubt that all the pieces are of one and the same manufacture and quality. They are all made of good Russia clean hemp, which is unusual in this sort of marline at the present day.

Nathaniel Waterman. I am a tin plate worker; saw prisoner in my place of business November 30th, about 10 o'clock in the forenoon; went up to him and said, Excuse me, doctor, but I want to know how Dr. Parkman appeared when you paid him that note? He said, He took the papers in his hand and darted out in his usual manner. If that is the case, said I, he did not get far from the college, before he was murdered; as some one seeing his money may have enticed him into one of his houses, and I believe that if he is ever found he will be found in one of his own houses, for I do not believe the story of his going over Cragie's bridge. Webster said, He did go to Cambridge. He said this energetically, as if he was sure of it. He then said, Only think of it, Mr. Waterman! A mesmerizing woman has told the number of the cab he went away, or off in, and Mr. Fitz Henry Homer has found the cab and blood has been found on the lining.

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He wanted a tin box. He said that he was going to have small things, say books, etc., put in; spoke of having the handles made very strong; had never made any such apparatus as this for Dr. Webster before, nor

anything precisely like it for any one else. On Saturday morning it came down from the shop labeled; it has not since been called for.

Charles B. Lothrop. Am foreman of Mr. Waterman; remember Dr. Webster calling for a tin box; wanted a square tin box, made of thick tin. Mr. Waterman told him that if he would send the box in after he got his things in, he would solder it up for him. No, Mr. Waterman, said the doctor, I have got to send it out of town, and I have got soldering irons, and will do it myself.

Samuel N. Brown. I am one of the toll gatherers on West Boston bridge; knew Dr. George Parkman and Dr. Webster; On 30th November saw Dr. Webster pass by the window; asked. him if he could recognize a twenty dollar bill that I had taken in the morning; did not show the bill to him. In the morning of the 30th, an Irishman offered me a twenty dollar bill to take his toll of one cent from; he said he had nothing smaller; changed the bill for him. I asked Dr. Webster if he could recognize that bill? he said no, that the money he paid Dr. Parkman he had received from the students; some in large and some in small denominations. Parkman, on the Wednesday or Thursday before he disappeared, came to the toll house and asked me if I had seen Dr. Webster that morning; told him I had not, and he turned and went back to the city. He had been down to the toll house twice within four or six days to inquire for Dr. Webster.

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Betsey Bent Coleman. Reside in Cambridgeport; have known

Dr. Webster for years; He called at my house the day of his arrest, about 4 in the afternoon; he said he had called respecting Dr. Parkman, and asked what day I thought that I had seen him; told him I thought I saw him on Thursday, before Thanksgiving, the day before his disappearance, as I was sitting at my window, in the afternoon. Dr. Webster said, Was it not Friday you saw him? I said, No, I was very busy on Friday, down in the lower part of the house. He asked how he was dressed, and I told him that he was dressed in dark clothes and had a cane.

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Asked Dr. Webster if he had heard anything from Dr. Parkman. He said that a cloak coat had been fished up which was thought to be his which had spots of blood on it, and I said, Oh, dear! then I am afraid he is murdered; he says, We are afraid that he is; that there was a twenty dollar bill left at the toll house by an Irishman that was suspicious; he asked me twice or three times, and at the door in leaving, if I was sure that it was on Thursday.

Samuel D. Parker. Was at home, Friday, 30th November, about 8 in the evening when ten or fifteen gentlemen came in suddenly upon me, among them Dr. Henry J. Bigelow, Mr. Edward Blake, Mr. Robert G. Shaw, Jr., Marshal Tukey, and others; they stated that certain discoveries had been made at the Medical College, supposed to be connected with Dr. Parkman's remains, and that Dr. Webster was in jail; told them that if they were satisfied that the remains were human the coroner should be sent for; the matter of hold