The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-07-06

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about them, and should never be likely to notice them
amongst the multitude ofarcles, large and small Of all
kinds collected IN my The anor had furnished
me key to the dissectlng room for the admission of
medical friends visiting the college, but had never
used it.
The nitric acid on the stairs not used toremove
spots OF blood, but dropped by accident.
Whenthe officers called for me on Friday Both Twas
IN doubt whether was under arrest, or whether
more strict search, ofmy rooms was to be had, the
latter hypothesis being hardly less appalling than the
former. When found that we went over Craigie' $
bridge thought the arrest most probable When
found that the carriage was stopping at the Jail was
sure Of my fate; and before leaving the carriage
took dose ofsuichninef rommy pocket and swallowed
it, had prepared it in the shape of pill before
left my laboratory on the 23d. thought could not
bear to survive detection. thought it was large
dose. The state of my nervous system probably de-
eated its action partially The effects of the poison
were terrible beyond description. 1t was in opera
ton at the college and before went there, but more
severely afterwards.
wrote but one of the anonymous letters produced
at the trial-the one mailed at East Cambridge
The ''little bundle y referred to in the letter de-
tanned by the aier contained only bottle of citric
acid, for domestic use. / had seen it stated in a
newspaper, that had purchased quantity of oral-
&c acid, which 1t was presumed was to be used in
removing blood-stans | wished the parcel to be
kept untouched, that it might be shown, if there
should be occasion, what it really was that had
purchased.
have drawn up IN separate papers an explana-
ton of the use intended to make of The blood sent
for on Thursday, the 22d, and of the conversation
with Littlefield about the dissectng vault
thlnkthat Pettee, in his testimony at the trial. put
too strongly my words about haUing settled with DR.
2. Whatever | did say of the kind was predicated
on the hope ] entertained that should be able to
pacfy DR. p, and make some arrangement with
him, and was sail in order to quiet Pettee, who
was becoming FESTIVE under the solicitations of DIR
Parkman.
After DR. Webster had stated most of the facts
recorded above, on the 22d of May, the question,
with all the earnesness, solemnty and authority Of
tone that was master Of abruptly addressed to him
IN substance.thus-' DR. Webster, in all probability
your days numbered. You cannot, You dare
not, speak falsely to me now You must not die
with lie in your mouth, and so prove to yourself
that your repentance for the sins of your life is insin-
cere and Intellectual Tell me the truth then, in a
confidence to be kept sacred during your lifetime,
and as much longer my regard for the happiness
OF your family shall seem to me to require, and the
interest of truth and justice to permit Search to
the bottom of your heart for the history of your mo-
tives, and tell me before God, did it never occur to
| you before the decease of DR. Parkman, that his
death, If you could bring it to pass, would be great
advantage to you at least, that personal injury to
him might possibly be the result of your expected
conference with him As a dying man. charge
you to answer truly and exactly or else be silent
| Had you not such thought g No, never,'' sale
he, with energy and feeling. 'As | live, and a.
| God IS my witness, never. was no more capable
of such thought than one of innocent children.
never had the remotest idea of injuring DIR P. unit
the moment the blow was struck. DIR P was ex
tremely severe and sharp-tongued, the most provok
ing of men and | am irritable and passionate 4
! qulckness and brief violence of temper has been thu
besetting sin of my life. was an only child, mucI
INDUCED, and have never acquired the control owe
my passions that ought to have acquired early
and the consequence is-all this.'' But YOU mott
fed Or Parkman to meet you at certain hour ant
told him you would pay him, when you knew vol
had not the means of paying him. "No,'' he re-
| piled, g did not tell him | should pay him ant
! there is no evidence that told him so, except m,
own words spoken after his disappearance, and afte
had determined to take the ground that | had paid
him. Those words were one of the miserable It's
sue of falsehoods to which | was committed from
the moment began to conceal the homicide | new
: er had thought of injurns Or Parkman.''
Having finished reading his notes of the statement
made by DR. Webbter on the 23d of May, DR. Pat
nam referred generally to the supplementary state
huo Wy u w epstei, VIZ his Iedsolls loI III
curing of Lttefeld about the defect in the vault
attached to the dissecting department, from which
noxious effluyia escaped his application to Little
field to procure blood for him. for experimental
purposes his letter to his family, requesting that
certain package should be preserved, which, he said,
contained ctrc acid and its preservation he suppes-
ed to be necessary to disprove statement made in
a newspaper, that it was oxalic acid also a more
particular account of the keys found in his room
and finally, an explanation about the tan and grape
vines, with which he proposed 10 make some expert
ments.
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