The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-27 00:00:00

THE LATE MURDER IN THE
UNITED STATES.
(From the Boston Post of Dec, 4.)
Notwithstanding Dr. Webster had signed a paper
to the effect that he was wilting to remain in gaol
until the result of the coroner's inquest should be
known, and thus avoid, at least for the present, an
appearance in court, Mr. Parker, county attorney,
saw objections, in so grave a matter—in having
a prisoner in custody upon no other authority
than his own voluntary consent—and therefore
arrangements were made yesterday forenoon
for bringing him to the police court, and ex-
hibiting the complaint to him in due form. About
one o'clock he was brought up from gaol in a
carriage, and, together with Franklin Dexter, Esq.,
his counsel, Sheriff Eveleth, and Mr. Parker, was
shown into the judges' lobby. The court-room was
then cleared of all persons but the officers, the ;pri-
soner having requested a private hearing. He waived
the reading of the complaint, but his counsel examined
it very carefully, without taking any exception to it.
The offence not being bailable, Judge Cushing ordered
that the prisoner should be committed to gaol, there
to remain to answer to whatever charge the grand
jury for the January term, for the county of Suffolk,
may allege against him. He was then taken back to
gaol. Ile appeared affable and collected, and even
smiled pleasantly when told that lie would have to
remain a few minutes while the papers were being
made out. He read a newspaper while waiting for the
documents to be put into shape.
The complaint was made before Judge Merrill, at
his residence, about eleven o'clock on Friday night,
and immediately after Dr. Webster was taken back to
gaol from the Medical College. Up to that time he
was only held in custody under a mittirnus signed by
Constable Clapp. The gentleman who signed the
complaint was one of Dr. Parkman's letting and col-
lecting agents, and was the most decided and perti-
nacious person of all concerned in having such a
persevering search made within and under the college
building.
(From the Boston .Herald, Dec. 3.)
At nine o'clock on Saturday evening a crowd of
about 100 persons assembled in front of the Medical
College, and commenced singing the " Old Hun-
dredth," and never did the words "Be Thou, 0 God,
exalted high," fall with such a solemn accent upon the
evening air, echoed by a choir of voices such as have
seldom been heard in unison. The moon shone brightly
upon the motley group of choristers, and a number of
policemen and watchmen near by, and rendered it a
rare and painfully solemn scene. The spontaneous
acknowledgment of the band of the Deity in bringing
to light the foul deed which had been committed in the
sombre-looking building before the doors of which
they stood, was a subject worthy of a painter's art,
or a moralist's reflections. Having finished the "Old
Hundredth," they struck up "Old Grimes is dead,
that good old man," and followed in the same melan-
choly strain, with " Poor Uncle Ned has gone where
the good niggers go."
An Irishman, by the name of Patrick who
lives in what is called the "Black Hole" in Cypress-
street, harangued the multitude, stating in his speech
that he saw Dr. Parkman go into the college on Fri-
day morning. He came out at half-past one o'clock.
and returned at six in the evening. 'I his man has
been employed to take away the offal, or the relics of
the carcases, and empty them into the different re-
ceptacles of filth.

He was employed to go of an errand, and in passing
up the stairs heard what is supposed to be an alterca-
tion in the professor's study. The voice of Dr.
Parkman he distinctly heard, and could swear to, and
the subject in dispute was the payment of a sum of
money which the doctor said had been due for some
time, and that he was tired of further promises. He
stopped at the door for a few moments, and heard a
reply made either that "he or you would not have
much more trouble about the matter—he had annoyed
him to death, and h• was heartily sick of it."
There were many angry words used by both par-
ties, but he (M‘Ginnis) not thinking anything of the
matter, left the door, and proceeded to perform the
errand which he had been instructed to do. He saw
Dr. Parkman no more.
It has been discovered, by a careful comparison of
the letter taken to Marshal Tukey by Mr. Eli Kins-
ley, post-master of East Cambridge, with a piece of
paper found in a desk either at the room of Professor
Webster or at his house, that the pines exactly
matched. The letter alluded to was written on a
piece of white wrapping paper, and was enclosed in
an envelope of a piece of yellow wrapping paper.
We publish it for the benefit of our readers; it is an
important link in the evidence :
" Dr. Parkman was taken on board the ship Her-
cules, and is all I dare tell you for fear I shall be
killed. I was one of the men at East Cambridge. I
took his watch, and as I was going along the road
that leads to the long bridge to Boston, I threw it
over fur fear I should be detected."

(From the Boston Atlas, Dec. 5.)
We learned yesterday that Mr. Sawin, who drives
an express waggon between this city and Cambridge,
states that he has been employed for a long period of
time by Professor Webster to carry bundles and
parcels for him to and from his residenee and the
college, as often as four or five times a week, and
that up to last week he had been in the habit
of going into Professor Webster's apart-
ments in the college, and leaving whatever he had
there. Last week, he says, Professor Webster told
him to leave any parcels which he might bring over
for him in Littlefield's entry, and he would get them.
He also says that he endeavoured to open the door to
Professor Webster's apartment, and found it fastened
on the inside. Among some other articles which he
brought over were some bundles of faggots. A por-
tion of these was found in Professor Webster's apart-
ment.

(From the Boston Herald, Dec. 6.)
A chemical analysis has been made of the contents
of the veins and arteries which were dissected out of
the thighs and leg, on Monday afternoon, for exami-
nation, and neither arsenic, acid, nor chloride of zinc,
have been found mixed with them. The absence of
these two chemicals conclusively proves, therefore, that
the body from which the veins and arteries were taken
was not one which had been brought to the college
as a subject for dissection.
A portion of the cinders found in the furnace of the
laboratory of Professor Webster have also been rigidly
analysed, and a small quantity of gold and silver has
thus far been found, and the small quantity of each
of these metals found would seem to indicate that
they proceed from the melting of the filling of the
partly decayed teeth, and the plate of the mineral
teeth identified as Dr. Parkman's.

Some curious attempts have been made to get at
reports of the evidence before the jury. On Wednes-
day evening the officer on duty was offered 20 dolls.
by a penny paper for what he could remember of the
testimony he had heard.
Yesterday afternoon two reporters, attached to
another penny paper, by means of a skeleton key,
got into the dead house under the ward-room, whore
the jury was sitting, and were applying their cars to
the air hole which runs up to the room, when they
were discovered by the officer. They had locked
themselves in. When the door was opened the
youngest brother rushed out, and making a lively
use of his legs, got away. The remainder man was
taken before the jury, and coroner-mauled.
We learn this morning, from good authority, that
the family and friends of the late Dr. Parkman have
become fully satisfied of the identity of the remains
discovered in Professor Webster's apartments. Dr.