The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-12-08
rxu BOSTON TRAGEDY.
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FrETlER AND STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS
All Doubts Of the Identity Of the Body
of DR.. Parkman Removed.
BURIAL OF THE REMAINS,
Sc. &C., 40.
rFrom the Boston Transcript Dec 81

acme efson employ ed at the JAIL overhearing con-
versation between Professor Webster and his cou1-
eel, officers Clapp and Hopkins were dispatched,
last evening, to make general examination Oh the
house OF the professor, al Cambridge,
Mrs Webster received them politely, and ln5et-
posedno objection the search. On opening FRO
lessor w IS private desk, they discovered Deneatn
a quantity Of other papers, the identical note, for
CAST, winch Prot Webster mas stated ne tooA up
on the Friday THAI DR. PaIkman was last seen to
enter the Medical College SO lar as the hnding
of this note is concerned, II only corroborates what
Prof Webster has stalled, regard TO taking It up
But a further search produced evidence OF more
startling description
$4,000 dated III ls47, and becoming due in 1851:
The note WAS secured by mortgage. We could
not learn the month or day OF the month the note
was dated, but the tact that note tor the above
SUN, running five years and payable In 1891, was
Yesterday discovered among Prof Webster's
pape s, Is true anu beyond question. The back OF
this last named note contained numerous endorse
mens, but 10 what amount, or whether suiflclent
20 cover The face Of II, We have not been able to
learn. Another statement IS, that the note was
fully Hquidatsd by The endorsements on the back.
and that the mole for Sio7 was the only demand
which Dr. Park man held against the accused on
The day he mysierousy disappeared.
During last W Elk several hecks, drawn by DR..
Webster, on The Cambridge Bank, were presented
at the counter of that institution for payment, but
the telers invarlable answer was h" Mr. Webster
has no money here, nor has lie had for some tlme."
We were shown check yesterday, drawn In
favor of MIR. Cumming, bla' ksmith in Cambridge
street, tor 50 Is, that Was refused some ten days
tince,
From the Boston Herald, Dec o.
A chemical sDsy sis has been made Of the contents
Of the veins and arteries which dsssoted out of
the thighs and leg en- Monday afternoon for exsmina
zion. and neither srtenic scid Dor chloride OF zinc
have been found mixed With them Inc absence OF
these chemicals conoiusiveiy proves therefore,
that the body FROM which tho veins ana arteries were
taken net one ~hlch had been brought to the
College a. q subject for dissection.
portion Fl the found in the furnace Of the
Iaboia;oIy Of Professor Webster have also been rgidly
analysed and . small quantity of gold aud silver nave
thus been found the small quantity of each Of
the metals found would seem TO indicate that they
proceed from ths OF the ing of the PARTLY
oyet natural TOOTH the plato OF the mineral teeth
identified IS Or. PsihDaus
further and noie Iisid examination has also been
made Of the copgoni-rsied mssses OF lead and tin,
which also In the laboratory furnace, and
minute PSI tcef OF silver have been discovered in the
CON position fused metals bat in such small
quantities that II supposed that this metal OIL.
Gpy contained in The lead or nn az II Is often fouad
10 the rstuiAl state
The Supposed drops Of blood found the pants-
loons clippers and ta~ OF Or Webster, have not yet
been xsmined We .bai sive the decision OF the CON-
mittee upon the as II eau he obtained
The result Of tb- xamnstion Of the contents OF the
srsres and veins proving ~s IL does nat the remains
from which they we're taken, do Dot form part OF
subject tor dirssci asde and important link
to the fearful chsn of ciIcunstsntia evidence which
surrou 10. Professor Webster
We learn that q large bunch Of skeleton newly
nled keys have ioppd in tie drawers OF bureau
in Professor Wsb.ters Isborstory which said 70
ave the pc-seseor an to every in the
Medical college 1b.se seys were exhibited to Fro
fessor W. ana be 1pains the circumstances OF their
berg in bis posssssio, by saying that he found them
In the streets tDTe them into the drawer among
the miscellaneous art elss which were contained in the
We have beard from authentic source, that there
i one hoh vii be brought iu evidence before the
CororeIs jury. which reIosrs the certainty Of the
Identification OF the remains found in the Medical Col
less o. the bo9y Oi DR.. rarkman complete. person
intimately acquainted win The deceased, viewed the
body while a. l.d al that institution immediately
recognized tLo while orsn OF the late Doctor which
stil RENAME eDhe s,'nshtd TO the psl'r ana which
was afflicted by disease, or malformatton
technically ,sll ply nosis- disease or dcfcrmlty In
which cate b'tIas ta@ ParH@ esi ~ g'aas PENIS non
possi' ,Iuds1s tsee tus-rweNs turpeio- fsta-iosy-
y .I The exrt.Bc- at this defufmity was corrobora
ted by one q The e>sminiI physicians.
Thu discovery taken Ia connection with the others
before made sarvr tsct VI the murder OF DR.. Park
man within the ~als # the neoiosl College indspus-
INV f,ed ia IN. council of the accused relieve
bic client from ths In putation OF having committed
the d,td. viii tie accumulated macs OF evidences
sssinst him without ,onie nost extraordinary and re-
buiting testimony, s. more than eau conjecture.
It's said hat TIE Friday evening when the mur-
der was committed froiees'r Webster was at party
where ,eyeTs Of the faculty Of Harvard College we're
pres.n Mt and he played Whist with them until very
fate hour the ii. ut std his return home, Was
by Jucgs ray TO the gate q his residence
this fact Witch IL veil authenticated, Is not At all
compatible With the statement Of ar L!tteheii, that
Prof Webster was ~ the laboratory the whole Of Fri
a sofrsrpond.pt Informs that time after the
dsppesrapce Of the Doctor hat was found on Gray
wharf and ON Fr,oAy the s0th inst that hat was at
Mir CoiAmoIes Welearn that Robert q shaw, ESQ b,
said IL was DR. fsrku ans hat bat wished Mr. Cola
more 10 ssy nothing about It. We comm uuicated this
fact TO the Marshal and learned that IL had previously
been made known the police, aud that the docks In
tho vicinity OF Gray wharf, baa been dragged Tor the
rFrom tho Boston Post, Dec.
The excitsms appeared TO have somsvhst subsidized
YESTERDAY: but IL manifest rsmsfks every
hand that tive Jealous parties have been formed in re-
lston 70 the casr,-the anti.wee.t.r and the anti
IittleGeld pArtiss-eaeh exzgxerztDg every circum-
stance II supposed to make TOR its own SIDE or
against tbs ether.
vays by which the laboratory may be entered I've
from the entry leading TO The dissect1g room which
room above and accessible from the lecture
Ono from tbs passage way connected with the Jsni-
IN the OF the buiaiug which Is accessible FROM
the water side by regular landing. The nth en-
trance Is by rear wineo~, without climbing, when
Some curious attempts have been made 10 get at
ports Of the evidence bfore the jury ON "Wednesday
evening the ofacer Guty offered $40 by penny
paper what he could remember Of the testimony he
had heard
Yesterday afternoon two reporters attached to ano.
thsr penny paper. BY means OF skeleton key got in
TO the dead house the ward room where the
~ sitting aud were applying their ears 20 the ayr hol.
which up TO the vhsn they discovered
by the oficer They hsd locked them selves in. When
the door vss opened the youngest brother rushed out
AID, making lively use OF hts legs. got away. The
remsindman taken before the jury, and coroner.
From the Boston Railway Times, Dec ~
We have refrained from expressing any opinion % 70
the gunt or Innocence % IN. Webster but while ell
eveeues OF actual OF fact by the Coroner
decsion that the Inquest should be private IL closed
and thOutabd rumOrs are flying about that pre-
judicial 20 The prisoner We do not tbink II out OF the
way &c aude 20 tvo iacts that have bear.
ing UPON the natter. On the day Of the alleged
der DR. webster lsotured 10 the Glaze and members Of
usay there Dc psrc.publs change Ia hts manner,
neither was there any Observable ohsngs during sub
tesuent lectures Os the evening Of the murder he
was In company q his trends from TO ten. play.
ing Whist, and evidently enjoying himself and with
every Hpretrenee q serenity and quiet TITS friends
confident that with his cbaractestlc Nervousness,
and excttsbty Of tsmp rsment IL would have been
impos,iiity tor him u tsss done II he guilty
Of the great crime LAID TO bis charge
very singular feet has bosn Ocertaned with
regard 70 the blood spots the hOor and the pas.
sage leading TO the closet II has been found that
ns fpots have been tpgs5 with vefmillion red
placed the spots and the blood spots themselves
Look though created by blood from subject some
time dead. 10 will not be believed that Dr. Webster
has been amusing himss BY oolofng these spots with
ve1miop ssd, and neither Will Il be supposed, that
with bis knowledge u the action Of scios other