Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-12-20
From the Boston Atlas

From the Boston Atlas.
The Mysterious Disappearance Of DR. George
Parknan. Astounding Developments.
.4yrest of Professor John W. Webster
charged uiih being The Murderer.
On Saturday morning last our city was
thrown into most intense excitement, by
the announcement shat portions OF a body
suppos ed to be that of DR. George Park
man, had been found underneath the Ia
bori,ory of Professor John w. Webster,
in the Medical College al the foot Of North
Grove street, and that Mr. Webster had
been arrested the evening previous, at his
residence in Cambridge and confined in
Leverett street Jail for the murder of DR.
Parkman. The sensation caused by this
announcement, VIC never before saw equal
led in our community, and it formed the
topic Of conversation in every part oil Inc
city, among all classes. All kinds OF rn-
mors were set ahoat. and stories without
the least foundation told. We have been
at some trouble to gather all the material
facts of this horribly suspicious affair,
which we give, going back of the inter-
view between DR. Parkman and Prof. Web
ster, on Friday the 23d ult. at the Medical
College.
In the early part of the month of No
vember, DR. Geo. Parkman called at Prof.
Wcbs,er's lecture room, in the Medical
College in North Grove street, while the
Professor was engaged in delivering a lee
ture before the students, and lie waited
! until the lecture was over and the students
had all left. He then asked Prof. Web
ster for The money due him, and after
some conversation, in which both parties
! were excited, Professor Webster desired
him to wait until the 23d Of Nov, as all
the tickets for the lectures, engaged by the
students, had no, been paid for, but would
in all probability be by that time. DR.
Parkman, it is stated left the building
good deal excited. On Thursday afternoon,
| Nov. 22d. Dr. Parkman called at the resi-
dence of Professor Webster, in Cambridge,
who being absent, he left word with his
wife, that he wished 10 have her husband
call a. his (Dr Parkman's) house the next
morning, On Friday morning, Nov. 23d,
the day after, about nine o'clock, Professor
Webster called at DR. Parkman's house in
! Walnut street, and The DIR icing out, he
! left word for him that he would pay him,
! he would call at his room at the College
soon after | o'clock. Dir Parkman, Prof.
! Webster states. called at the NJ edical Col
! lcce about half-past ! o'clock, and was
paid by him (Websler) $4a3 "a, which
amount was TO lake up two notes and cam
eel mortgage. DR. Parkman gave up the
notes, but had not the mortgage with him.
He, however, said that he would 60 and
cancel it. This transaction, DIR Webster
says, took place at the counter in his lee
ture room, and that DR. Parkman left the
room through the door near the main en-
trance TO the building.
Since past o'clock on Friday. the
! 23d, the time he was seen by number OF
people TO enter the College, nothing of a
reliable nature has come TO light as to his
whereabouts. He was seen 10 enter the
College, but no one has been found who
saw lin, come OF; of it, and This fact pro-
ducel the impression in the minds of a
nnmber-more strongly in that OF Mr.
Kingsley, DR. Parknan's asent--that he
never did come out Of il. On Saturday
following the Friday the DR. my s'eriou>Iy
! disappeared. the relations laid the facts
before the City Marshal with directions TO
spare no expense to ascertain if possible
what had become of him, at that time not
having the remotest idea that he had been
roully dealt with. The city was thorough
ly searched by the police, handbils issued
describing his person and Offering rewards
for him, bnt 20 no avail. The only infor-
nation obtained, other than that he was al
the Medical College at ] past o'clock on
Friday, which any confidence conid be
placed in, was that he was seen by the
! toll- ,athercr of Cragie's Bridge To pass
owe, sad bridge that afternoon, at o.
clock. This information, however, was
no, deeme,.' wholly satisfactory, as it was
possible that ,he toll gatherer might be
mistaken as 10 IT,, lay, and on Thursday
morning a reward o, $1,000 was offered
for DR. parknan's body, ,ra.s having oeen
entertained that he had been :nGrdered.
During this time, as early last week as
Tuesday, Professor Webs,er's apartment
in the College were searched by the Pc
lice in his presence, and nothing was then
found furnishing any clue to the DIS sud
den disappearance. The uspicions, how
ever, seemed still to increase, that DR.
Porkman had never quilted the college
building, and as there was one part of il
which had not been searched, which was
the vault directly underneath Professor
Webster's laboratory, tie only access TO
which was through water closet in the
labori,ory, and as DR. Henry j. Bigelow,
Professor Of Surgery at Harvard Univer-
si,y, 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 Littlefield,
the persons who has charge Of and whose
family resides in part Of the building, TO
effect an entrance into the vault without
forcing the lock ofthe closet door.
To explain how the entrance was effect
ed 10 this vault, we will state tina, the Col
lege is built upon walls which rest upon
piles, and that the tide Gibbs and flows
through apertures underneath the base
ment floor, between the compartments
..orme,i, l." The walls. One Of these COM