The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-07-15
PORTSMOUTH, o. MONDAY EVENING, JULY Is, 1850


sic. ! should hive remarked that
was so much short of large sum that |
was to pay Parkman, borrowed the mo-
ney of Henelmnn as mere pocket money
Tor the day. If had intended the homi-
eide of DIR. P. ] should not have made The
appointment with him twice, and each time
IN SO open manner that other persons
would almost certainly know of it, and |
should not have invited him to my rooms
at an hour when the college would be full
OF students and others, and an hour when
was most likely to receive calls from others
for that was the hour just after the lecture,
at which persons having business with me
Or IN my rooms were always directed to
call.
| locked into my room on Sunday after
noon, but did nothing. After the first visit
of the officers, | took the pelvIs and some
ofthe limbs from the upper well, and threw
them into the vault under the prvy-I
took the thorax from the well below and
packed it in the tea chest, as fouud--my
own impression has been, that this was not
done until after the second visit of the off
GERS, which was on Tuesday; but Kings
ley's testimony shows that it must have
been done sooner. The perforation of the
thorax had been mado by the knife. AT
the time of removing the viscera on We'd
ncsday, | put on kindings and made a
fire IN the furnace below, having first pokod
down the ashes. Some of The limbs. can.
not remember which or how many, were
consumed at that time, This was the last
| had 10 do with the remains. The tin box
was designed TO receive the thorax, though
| had not concluded where | should finally
prt the box. The fsh-hooks tied up as
grapples were to be used for drawing up
the pai's in the vault, whenever should
determine how TO dispose of them, and vel
strange enough, had confused double
object in ordering The box, and making the
grapplcs, had intended to get such things
to send to Fayal; the box to hold the plants
and other articles which | wished to pro-
tect from the salt water and the sea air,
pnd the hooks to be used there in obtaining
Corvaline plants from the sea.
1t was this previously intended use of
them that suggested, and mixed itself up
with the idea of the other application. /
doubt, even now, to which use they would
have been applied: had not used the hooks
at 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 box of tan brought in on
Monday was not used nor intended to be
used it belonged to quantity obtained by
me long time ago, for experiments In tan
ming. and was sent in by the family to get
IL out of the way 1t being sent in just at
that time, was accidental. was not aware
that ! ha9 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 care
lessly into a drawer. | never examined
them, and do not know whether they would
fit any Of the locks of the college or not. If
there were other keys, fitting doors with
which had nothing TO do, l supposed they
must have been all duplicates or keys of 9TH
er locks, left there by The mechanics or jai-
lor. know nothing about them and should
never be likely to notice them amongst the
multitude of articles, large and small, of all
kinds, collected in my rooms. The Janitor
had furnished me with key 70 the dissect-
ing room, for the admission of Medical
friends visiting the College, but 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. l was in
doubt whether l was under arrest, or wheth-
er 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, l
thought the arrest most probable. When
found that the carriage was stopping at the
all, was sure of my fate. Before leaving
The carriage took dose of strychnine from
my pocket and swallowed it. had pre- oar
ID ii in the shape of pill before left my
laboratory on the 23d. thought | could
lot bear to survive detection. | thought it
Hes large dose. The state of nv nervous (
'ystem probably defeated its action partial
y lue enec's Vi Tue poison were terrible {
,eyoud description. 1t was in operation at !
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