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THE BOSTON TRAGEDY.

THE BOSTON TRAGEDY.
The Boston papers have eng'hened details
IN reference TO the case of DR. PARKMAN
and h's suspected murderer, Professor WEB
sTER. In order to full understanding of
tins horrible affair, we copy from the Atlas
the following narrative of The first incidents
connected with il:
In the early par. Of me month Of n OVEN
Der. Dr. Geo. Parkman called at Professor
Webser's lecture room in the Medical Col
lege in North Grove street. while the pro-
lessor was engaged in delivering lecture
before the students. and he waited until the
lecture was Owe and the students had all left.
Tie lhen asked Prof. Webster for the money
due him, and after some conversation. 10
which both parties were excited, Prof Web
sier desired him to wait until the 23I Of
ovember, as all The tickets for the lectures.
engaged by the students, had not been paid
for, but would in all probability be by ,ha,
time. DR.. Park man, it is said. left the build
ing good deal excited. On THURSDAY af-
tern"on, November 22h. Dr.. Parknan call
ed at the residence OF Professor Webster.
IN Cambridge, who being absent, he left
word with bis wife that he wished 10 have
her husband call at his d.. Parkmsn'S)
house the next morning. On Friday NOM
ing. n ovemher 23d, the iay after. about nine
O'Clock. Professor Webster called al Dr.
Parkman's house in Walnut street, and the
DR.. being out. he left word for him that be
would paw him if he would call al his room
at The college soon after | O'Clock. D..
! Park man. Professor Webster says. called a,
! The Medical College ahou' haIlpas O'Clock,
and was paid by him (Wehster) S4S3 81.
which amount was TO take MP two noe
and cancel mortgage. Dr.. Parkman gave
| up the notes, bu, had not the mortgage " h
him He, however said that he would %
and cancel it. This Transaction, D.. Web
ster says, took place a, the counter in his
lecture room, and that Dr. Parkman left the
| room though the door near the main en-
trance TO the building.
Since haIcpast O'Clock on Friday, the
23d, when he was seen by number Of ren-
pie 10 enter the College. nothing Of relia-
hle nature has come to Zig lit as to his where
ahouts. He was seen to enter the College.
come out Of it, and this fact produced the
impression in the minds of number-more
strongly in tina, Of Mr.. Kingsley, Dr. Park
mans agent-thal he never did come out f
it. On Saturday following the Friday the
Doctor mvs'eriously disappeared, he rela-
tons laid the facts before The city marshal,
with dIreciaes to spare no expense to
ascertain, if possible, what had become of
him, at that time not having the remo,esl
idea that he had been foullv dealt with
The CITY was thoroughly searched by the
police, handbills issued, describing his per-
son, and offering rewards for him, bu, to 10
avail. The only information obtained, OH
er than that he was at the Medical College
at haIfpast o'clock on Friday, which al y
confidence could be placed in, was that he
was seen by the toll ga,herer Of Cragie's
bridge 10 pass over said bridge that after
noon at three O'Clock. This information.
however, was not deemed wholly 'salisfac-
tory, as it was possible tha, the ,ol-gather-
er might be mistaken as To the dav. and on
Thur Sdav morning a reward Of $1,000 was
offered for Dr.. Park mans BODY, fears hav-
ing been entertained that he h ad been muir
dered.
During this time. as early in last week
as Tuesday. Professor WehSter's apartments
in HE college were searched hv the police
in his presence. and nothing was then found
furnishing any clue To the Dr's sudden dis
appearance. The suspicious. however, seem
ed still TO increase. tina! DR.. Park man never
Quilted the college building. and as there
was one part OF it which had not been
searched. which was the vault directly un-
dprneath Professor Websler's laboratory.
The only access 10 which was through
water closet in the laboratory. and as D..
lenery J BigeIow. professor Of surgery al
Harvard University was DESTROYS that all
suspicious should be cleared up, as far as
was in The power Of those having direction
in the building, he directed Mr. Ephraim
Li,iefield, the person who has charge Of,
and whose family resides in part of the
building. to effect an entrance into the
vault without forcing the lock of the closet
door.
To explain how the enterance was effect
ed to his vault, we will say that the College
is built upon walls which rest upon piles,
and that the tide GIBBS and flows through the
apprtures underneath the basement floor,
between the compartments formed by the
walls One of these compartments forms
what is termed The vault underneath Prof
Webster'S laboratory. There is a trap door
10 the compartment next to that used by
Prof. Webster, situated some 40 feet from
the aier closet Li,iletield descended thyo'
the trap door on Friday, with a crow bar,
and knocked an aperture in the wall near
the water closet and discovered, about o.