Washington telegraph., 1849-12-26
WASHINGTON, ARKANSAS, DECEMBER 26, 1849

n ~ 1N W = J. .
Gil At Ieng.h he applied TO the officer
~ho disposed Of the tickets for Professor
Websle7s course of lec, res to know if
-rs was a sufficient 0aiance due the
+ PRO s0r t. make mp IS note. This
4 c.fcumstaa-e is said 10 ave greatly In
censed Prof W. vino on 'riday morning
of last week called al Dr. Parkman's 5
hocse, No 6 Walnut rect, and left
word III aafDr p. wanted his money
~ tbat mortgage, ~ call 1t the Medical
College ahoul one o'clock nat afternoon'
The Docto aow to lave proceeded
10 ,he College "a the me specified
wa sceA t7 gt-S oy eFGral persons in
i the vicinity, bat ,o1s 2lsCsr seen to come
/ att The statement shat he was sub
/ sequentiy seen passing Cragie's bridge,
+ las been, as we hear satisfactorly con-
adicJed On his way the College,
I D. Par5man purchased some groceries
ar store on Use corner of Vine and
5 Blossom streets, which @ ordered TO be
sent 20 his house. bGt It in the store a
bag 3r celery. which he said he would
himself call CD i0 a iey minutes. At
-h.s time, it IS a person wishing to
( do some business win aim, waited two
oe ,Arce hgurs 10 vain in order 10 see
fhim when be should come from the
I College
is said Prot Webster admits that
D. Parkman was a the College about
the time mentioned aud that, although
be asserts be paid him re $3.50, he can
n8, show receipt tor it-when it is
vall known that Dr. 2 as very metho-
li1s 70 bis business mas ers. 1t is also
stated that durl > ,.ie whole OF the past
week Prof. Webster has kept himself very
secluded-that his rooms at the College
have been kept constantly locked
circumstances quite unusual with him.
From these aud other alleged facts, such
suspicious Were aroused, that in the
Professors absence last evening, Mr.
of the College building and grounds, was
induced to break the partition wall to
the vault under the private laboratory of
Professor Webster, in the basement Of
the building, and there discovered one
leg and portion of the trunk of human
corpse.-in a condition which made it
apparent that the remains had not long
been there deposited.
This discovery, with the fact that Prof.
Webster is not an anatomist or surgeon,
but simply a chemist, and having moth
ing professionally to do with the dissec-
ton of bodies was ample reason to give
rise to the astounding suspicion that DR..
Parkman had thus been most toully and
diabolically murdered
Prof Webster was accordingly arrested
at his residence in Cambridge by officers
Clapp and Rice, and lodged in Liverett
street Jail last night, to await further de-
velopments. We hear that he was in
tensly excited on the occasion, and gave
| way to violent eXclamations, some of
which, if reported correctly, would seem
to strengthen the chain of circumstances,
pointing to the deepest guilt. Among
the language of a similar import, it is
currently stated that he used the follow
| ing: "Can it be that internal scamp
supposed to refer to some accomplice
has betrayed me?" There are a thousand
rumors of this sort ahoat, but how much
credit to attach 10 them, we leave our
| readers TO Judge.
We learn that further and thorough
| investigation was made in the Professors
| laboratory this morning, when in the
ashes of his furnace were found pieces OF
| bone from the skull and other parts of a
mans head, together with several false
| teeth, some coat buttons, and some grains
of gold, apparently from watch melted
down. On the stairs leading from the
laboratory to the lecture-room above,
were found spots made by strong acid,
capable of destroying marks of blood
which might have been there spilled, or
of alnos; instantly consuming the flesh
| if thrown upon the person.
1t is known that Dr. Parkman carried
| a gold watch and wore some artificial
teeth, but as yet we do not learn that any
real identification has been made con-
cerning these articles. or of the portion
of the body found. 1t is said as sus-
| picious fact, III connection with the re-
cent unusual closeness of Prof. Websters
laboratory, that from its chimney an un-
commonly dense and constant smoke has
| been observed to issue for several days
past, and that great amount of pitch
pine kinGlings has been used there.
The most thorough Investigations are
now being made upon all the matters to
which we have alluded. The medical
college is undergoing the strictest search
throughout, and it may be expected that
some definite information will soon relieve
the all-absorbing excitement, which is
prevalent in consequence of the mysteri-
Gus facts already developed. A very i'll
timed and uncharitable attempt to excite
popular feeling against the Medical Col
lege, in consequence of these develop
ments, has been made: but the good sense