Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-07-15
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RAVENNA, OHIO, MONDAY JULY l5 1850

inferred that it was gone with the missin
man, and | should only have kept tb
small one, which was all that | could pre-
tend to have paid. My single thought wa
concealment and safety; everything els
was incidental to that. | was in no stat
to consider nay ulterior pecuniarv interes,
Money, though needed it so much, was o
no account with me in that condition o
mind.
If had designed and premeditatsd thu
homicide of Dr.. Parkman, in order. to ge
the possession of the notes and cancel my
debt, not only should not have deposited
Penee's check the next day, but shoule
have made some show of getting and hav'
ing the money the morning before.
should have drawn my money from the
bank and taken occasion to mention to the
cashier that | had sum to make up or
that day for Dr.. Parkman, and the same te
Henchman, when borrowed the $40;
should have remarkedthat | was so much
short Of sum that was to pay Parkman
| borrowed the money of Henchman as
mere pocket money for the day. Ifl had
intended the homicide of Dr. P, should
not have made the appointment with him
twice, and each time in so open a manner
that other persons would almost certainly
know of it; and should not have invited
him to my rooms at an hour when the Col.
lege would be full of students and others,
and an hour when was most likely to re-
ceive calls from others, for that was the
hour, just after the lecture, at which per.
sons having business with me or in my
rooms, were always directed to call.
l looked into my room on Sunday after.
noon. After the first visit of the officers,
| took the pelvis and some of the limbs
from the upper well, and threw them into
the vault and privy. l took the thorax
from the well below, and packed it in the
tea chest, as found. My own impression
has been, that this was not done till after
the second visit Of the officers, which was
on Tuesday, but Kingley's testimony shows
that it must have been done sooner. The
perforation of the thorax had been made
by the knife. At the time of removing
the viscera, on Wednesday, put on kind
lings and made fire in the furnace below,
having first poked down the ashes. Some
Of the limbs, cannot remember which or
how many, were consumed at that time.
This was the last had to do with the re.
mains. The tin box was designed to re-
ceive the thorax, though had not conclu-
ded where l should finally put the box.
The fish hooks, tied up as grapples, were
to be! used for drawing up the parts in the
vault, whenever | should determine how
to dispose of them, and get strains enough
| had confused double object in ordering
the box, and making the grapples. had :,
before, intended to get such things to send
to Fayal; the box to hold the plants and
other articles which wished to protect
from the salt water and sea air, and the
hooks to be used there in obtaining corral
line plants from the sea. 1t was this pre-
viously intended use of them that suggest
ed and mixed itselfup with the idea Of the
other application. | doubt. even now, to
which use they would have been applied; |
had not used the hooks al the time of the
discovery. The tan put into the tea chest
was taken from barrel of it that had
been in the laboratory for some time.
The bag of tan brought in on Monday
was not used nor intended to be used; it be-
longed to quantity obtained by me long
time ago, for experiments in tanning, and
was sent in by the family to get it out of
the way. 1t being sent in just at that time
was accidental. | was not aware that
had put the knife in the chest. The stick
found in the saucer of ink was for making
coarse diagrams on cloth. The bunch of
filed keys had been used long ago by me
in Fruit street, and thrown carelesslv by
into drawer. I never examined them,
and do not know whether they would fit
any of the locks of the college or not. If
there were keys fitting doors with which
| had nothing to do, supposed they must
have been all duplicates, or keys of former
locks left there by the mechanics or janitor.
| know nothing about them, and should
never be likely to notice them amongst the
multitude Of articles, large and small, of
all kinds, and collected in my rooms. The
janitor had furnished me with key to the
dissecting room, for the admission of medi.
cal friends visiting the college, but l had
never used it. ...--'
The nitric acid on the stairs was not used
to remove spots of blood, but was dropped
by accident. When the officers called for
me on Friday, the 30th, | was in doubt
whether | was under arrest, or whether a
more strict search of my rooms was to be
had, the latter hypothesis being hardly
less appalling than the former. When |
found that we went over Cragies' Bridge,
thought the arrest most probable. When
| found that the carriage was stopping at
the Jail, was sure of my fate. Before
leaving the carriage, | took dose of
strychine from my pocket and swallowed
it. | had prepared it in the shape of a pill
before | left my laboratory on the 23d. |
thought could not bear to survive detec.
tion. thought it was a large dose. The
state of my nervous system probably de-
feated the action partially. The effects OF
the poison were terrible beyond description
1t was in operation at the College, and
before went there, but most severely af-
forwards. | wrote but one of the anony.
nous letters produced at the trial-ths