The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-04-01
NEW ORLEANS. MONDAY MORNING, APRIL l. 1850 -

Question by Attorney -GeneraI.-W hat was your
own condition when you came up outof the cellar
Objected to by the defenee--bht was sustained
| by the Bench =
Ansyer,7-l was very much affected: / locked
tne ceIlar door and went down to DIR. Bigeiow's ;
the gentleman's girl came TO the door asked for
Dr' d. he was not at home, and Mrs Bipelow
came 10 the door; she asked what was the mat.
Ter with me g calling me by name then ran
Gown 70 young ". Bigelow's Chauncy place, and
told hum what had discovered; we then went to-
gether to R. g. Shaw's Jr.; the Civ MarsbsI
shortly came in, and told him What had found
he told me to run right down to the College and bs
would follow on directly L. went to the College.
and arrived there before the rest Of them II found
Mr.. TrenholIne at my house he Trenhoimel toId
me that he had been down to the cellar; the City
Marshal came in about ten minutes afterwards /:
dId not hear the City MarshaPs testimony the
hole. was near the north corner of the wall we
could stand up straight near the wall the ground
santed from the hole of the privy down to the sea
wall.
Here the plan of the building was shown to the
jury and the nature of the ground-plan was Illus
frated.I
here examined the foundation Of the walls next
the PsiVy, and do not think any solid substances
c9ui9 nave noated INTO the vault; there is cement
piled up all round the tide flows into the priyv
every day; the vault where the offai from the dis
seenng room Is thrown was tight until about two
years since, and for that space Of time the tide
flowed In aud out; but there is not sufficient space
for any thing solid to float out; was in the vault
with MI Irenhofme when we heard the steps
overhead; /; have since found out that the noise
was made by my wife and children running from
the cellar overhead; Marshal Tukey ran ND 10 get
ms revolver; we then went up to the Laboratory,
and found the bones in the furnace; officer Tren-
holme was left in charge Of the college until after
the arrest Of Prof w some time afterwards officer
spur earae to my door and said they had Prof w
out there, and that he was very faint Iopened the
door and let them in Prof. w. came in between
two men, who seemed to support him entirely !:
Webster said to me, Littlefed, they have arrest.
ed me and taken me away from my family without
allowing me to say good-bye;" he was much agi-
tated, and sweat much; | thought he trembled
some; we went to the lecture-roon and we went
to the laboratory; the doors were locked, and we
asked Prot. w. for the keys; he said they had
taken him away so suddenly that he didn't have
time to get his keys; the officers broke down the
door we got into the lower laboratory through the
cellar door, the way | always did; Prof W. had
lett that open, when we got into his private room
we asked where the key of the little room was ;-he
lW.) made the same answer that he did befofe
the officers asked where the privy key was
ster said to me, " You know where the kew is .
told him, that 1 did not; then he said "There il
hangs on the shelves" We took down the kew.
but found it would not fit the door the door Of the
little room was broken open; looked for hatchet
which used to be in the room. to break the door
|
the hatehet at first and asked Prof W. where il
was he replied, In the sink :" | went down and
found 1t there returned, broke open the door Of
the little room next broke open the privy door,
and then went into the laboratory and while there
| he asked Tor water; got him glass and he took
hold OF it, but could drink he tried to bring it
to his mouth, but when he raised 1t, he began to
snap at It like mad dog; one of the officers told
him to, let hum have the water; gave il to him !:
the officer took it and gave him some to drink, but
It appeared to choke him very badly; we went TO
the furnace, uncovered it, and took out some of the
minerals Mr.. Andrews was there at the time. and
think Mr.. Parker also; Coroner Pratt said, Let
every thing be )" and after that we went down to
the privy, and brought up the remains and nut
them board Prof w was also brought in
and the rest who were about came in I. heard
somebody ask DR.. Gay if these were parts of a
human body; he replied that he thought they
were Prot w. was very much agitated and per-
sPIfed great deal: l thought saw tears running
down his cheeks at the time; officer Spur, or Ba-
ker was lett In charge of the Medical College after
Prot w. went away have seen the slippers now
exhibited, at the College, there was blood on one
| OF the slippers when | saw them last never saw
the saw pow exhibited before the Saturday after
the discovery of the remains have seen the knife
| exhibited before; DR.. Webster. showed il to me
himself, the Monday before the disappearance of
Or. farkman; this was bowie knife which was
found DR.. w. said, when he showed me the knife
=" Littleheld, see what knife have got.n / look.
ed at it, and he said, got it to cut corks with
| answered, well, should think it was intended
for any want"
The professor used to wear pair of blue cotton
oyeralls and an old coat to work in; have not seen
those overails since hs arrest; the last time saw
them was when he had them on at the time the
officers called to search the house ON Monday or
Tuesday the Professor used to have.s key to the
dssectIng room, and those to his own apartment;
didn't know whether he had any others these was
bunch Of skeleton keys found in the back private
room.
There was some objection raised by the defence
against the introduction of this bunch of keys in
evidence
know that some towels were found in the privv
vault; one diaper roller and two crash towels were
found there were marks on the towels knew the
roller but didn't remember having seen the others
before; don't know whether the roller was marked;
never knew any part of a human body of any con-
sequence, to be used by Prof Webster.
He has sometimes asked me to get him small
pieces of flesh to try experiments upon have seen
him explode badders Of gas in his lecture room,
and these make considerable noise; have heard
noise in his lecture when he was experiment.
ing with this gas or with the galvanic battery.
Here the discovered and torn towels found on the
remains were exhibited, and the prosecuting officer
remarked that the spots were caused by acid and
not blood, as had been supposed.
AT this period, the Government tested the exam
ination Of Liuleield, and the defence commenced
their cross-examination; when his honor Chief JUS
tice Shaw adjourned the Court until tomorrow, at
O'Clock, a. NJ.
BosToE, March %.
FIFTH DAy.-Notwithstan the storm, the |
court filled as densely as ever this morn
ing before the prisoner was brought in. He en- |
tered, accompanied by officer Jones, at few min
utes before g. No great change in bis appearance |
or demeanor was percepdble, although the evidence
OF the last witnesses have been strongly against
him. The Judges having come in, the names of |
the jury We're called by the clerk-and ali being |
present, the examination of the witness who was |
on the stand when the court adjourned yesterday |
was resumed That witness was Erhraim Little |
held Ibis evidence this morning was as follows:
Cross Examination of Mr.. Littlsfeld.- went
into the laboratory Wednesday night, because |
was afraid the building was on fire. When got
in, there did not appear to be any fire in the fur
mace. In going up stairs felt the heat with NV
hand on the wall as high as my head. The dissect-
ing room was on the same level with the laboratory
the furnace was hot covered with crucibles and
minerals l did not touch any thing because DR..
w. had told me not to touch any thing left on.tbe
table unless heleft il to be washed: Ilooked into
the hogshead, thinking DR.. P. might have been
put IN there J, don't know whether 1 Thought of
looking in the furnace; Thought it suspicious |
inspected the privy, but had no key to it did NOT
try whether my key would fit it made no at
tempt to get key; Wednesday night went to n
cqhllon party; told what had seen as to the
water IN the hogsheads to NV wife rigbt off. had