Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-12-19
The Parkman Tragedy i'm Boss
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ted Boston, 9Th instant, which says:
The jury of inquest over the remains O.
DR.. Parkman met this morning, when, afte
considerable discussion, the Coroner decided
that the investigation should be conducted pri
vately, and the reporters were desired to retire
1t was stated that considerable new evidence
would come up before the inquest to criminate
Webster. 1t is also stated that the defence
will get up an abb, and prove that Webster
was at Cambridge on the evening of the alleged
murder, when a light was seen in the Professor
room.
Ascend dispatch, dated Boston, 9th instant
says:
Dr.. Parkman's supposed remains were inter.
red to-day by the family. The inquest is pro.
crossing slowly. 1t is said that important dis
%coveries have been made among papers found
in the possession of the accused. Among them
is a note for $4,000, belonging to Parkman, and
several smaller notes held by Parkman against
| Webster, ST..
In the Albany IN. W Express we find the
following biographical sketch of DR.. Parkman,,
the supposed victim, and of DR.. We ster, the
supposed murderer:
DR.. Parkman was,a son of the late Samuel
Parkman, of Boston, who died about twenty.
five years ago., and left nearly a million Of dol
lars to his family of eight children. One of
his sons is the Rev. Francis Parkman, d. D..
an eminent divine Of the Unitarian Church.
Of his daughters, one is married to Robert G.
Shaw, one of the most eminent and successful
merchants in the country. Another daughter
was the wife of the late Edward G. Tuckerman.
a man Of great wealth and benevolence. DR.,
George Parkman, whose mysterious disappear.
ance has caused SO much excitement in Boston.
was about sixty years Of age. He married, sew
eral years ago, one of the beautiful and accom-
plished daughters of Mr.. Macdonough, for MANY
years British Consul at Boston, and was a gem
tleman of thigh character and many estimable
qualities, The late Daniel Parkman, a brother
Of the Doctor, married another daughter Of
Macdonough. -. s
DR.. Webster, who has been arrested on sus-
picion Of the murder, is the we'll known che
mist. He is the son of the hate Redford Web
ster, of Boston, a vsry wealthy, just and phi
lanthropic citizen of that place. Dr.. w. was
for many years Professor of Chemistry and
Mineralogy in Harvard University. He is the
author Of a Manual of Chemistry, used as a
textbook in many of our Colleges, and of a
Description Of the Azores, which he visited in
1890, and where he marriedlat that time a Por-
tuguese lady, He erected an elegant house in
Cambridge in the year 1882, and became after
ward, as we were informed, seriously emharras-
sed in his pecuniry affairs. Parkman, although
at an early period of his life deeply involved by
the knavery of a brother, who fled the country
to escape the State prison, and who is now liy-
ing, we believe, somewhere on the shoressoft the
Mediterranean, had within a few years become
very wealthy by the rise Of real estate in the
western section of Boston. He'was generally
regarded, with what correctness we know not,
as a very penurious man. He enjoyed, how
ever, the esteem of many eminent persons
among them Audubon, the great ~ornithologist,
who, in a conversation with Professor Wilson,
of Edinburg, eulogised him in the warmest
terms, as reported in Biackwood's Magazine in
the year 1897. 80 Fl
. The following additional. facts in regard to
the individual concerned in this horrible affair,
are taken from the correspondence of the New
York Tribune .. s'@
DR.. Webster has been Professor of Chemis-
try in Harvard University since the deeease. of
the late DR.. Gorham, a period of over twenty
five years. In this capacity he is a member of the
Faculty of Medicine in the Harvard Medical
School, which has its location in Boston. He
is probably not far from IS years of age, al
though his manners and appearance are those
Of q much younger man. His reputation in
his profession is respectable, but not brilliant.
He is a man Of varied accomplishments and of
elegant tastes, AS a member of society in Bos-
ton and Cambridge, he has always enjoyed an
unusual popularity. His musical talents are
Of a high order, and he has done much to ele-
vate the standard Of musical taste in Boston,
His house has been distinguished as the seat
of generous hospitality, where, surrounded by
9 singnnlaZly lovely family, he has appeared to