The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-07-18

when was most likely to receive calls
from others; for thai was the hour just
latter the lecture, at which persons hav-
ling business with me- or in my rooms
were all directed to cali / looked in
Ito my rooms Sunday afternoon, but did
nothing. ~'ss.sa '''s''''s'''s
After the first visit of the officers |
took the pelvis and some ofthe hnbs
from the upper well aad threw them in
Ito the vault under the privy. Itook the
'thorax from the well below and packed
lit in the tea chest as found. My own
has becnthat this was not
done until after the second visit Of the
lofficers, which was on Tuesday but
|Kingsley's testimony shows that it must
Ihave been done sooner. The perfora-
|tion ofthe thorax had been made by the
knife at the time of removing the visce-
ira. On Wednesday / put on k,ndlings
land made fire in the furnace below,
|having first poked down the ashes
Some of the limbs-I cannot remember
(which or how many--were consumed at
that time. This is the last | had to do
with the remains. The tin box was de-
|signed to receive the thorax, though ]
had not concluded where should final
lily put the box. The fish hooks, tied up
las grapples, were to be used for draw
ling up the parts in the vaults whenever
II should determine how to dispose soJ
them and get string enough. | had a
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
land other articles which wished to pro-
Itect from salt water and the sea air,
and the hooks to be used there in OBJ
|taining CoralIine plants from the sea =
lit was this previously intended use Of
them that staggered and mixed itself up
with the idea of the other application. i
'danbt 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 ia !
ken from barrel of it that had been in
the laboratory for some time, the bag of
tan, brought in on Monday, was not US
led, nor intended to be used: it belong
led to quantity obtained by me long
time ago for experiments in tanning, and
was sent in by the family to get It out
the way. Its being sent in Just at that
time was merely accidental. / was not
aware that had put the knife in the
chest; the stick found in the saucer of
ink was for marking coarse diagrams on
cloth; the bunch of filed keys had been
used long ago by me in Front ST., and
Thrown carelessly into drawer; | new
whether they would fit any of the locks
of the College or not, if there were 9th
Ter keys fitting doors with which had
nothing to do, | suppose they must have
been all duplicates, or keys of former
locks, left there by the mechanics or
ianitor: know nothing about them, and
should never be likely to notice them "a i
|mong the multitude of articles, large
and small, of all kinds, collected in my
rooms; the Janitor had furnished me
with key to the dissecting reom, for
the admission of 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 Both, j was in doubt wheth-
Ter | was under arrest or whether al
more strict search of my rooms was to|
|be had the latter hypothesis being hard
|ly less appalling than the former When
II found that we went over Craigie's
bridge, thought the arrest most proba-
bile. When | found that the carriage
was stopping at the Jail, was sure off
my fate. Before leaving the carriage, II
took dose Of strychnine from my peck
Jet and swallowed it. had prepared it
in the shape of pill before / left the
laboratory on the 23d. l thought could
not bear to survive detection, / thought
it was large dose The state of my
nervous system probably defeated its
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
] wrote but one of the
anonymous letters produced at the trial
the one mailed at East Cambridge
The little bundle referred to in the lett
ter detained by the jailor, contained on
Iy bottle Of nitric acid for domestic use
i Had seen it stated in a newspaper that
/ had purchased a quantity of oxalic;
acid, which it was presumed was to be!
used in removing blood-stains. | wish
the parcel to be kept untouched that it'll
may be shown, if there should be occa-|
sion, what it really was that ! had pur-
chased. sts 81
| have drawn up in separate papers!
an explanation of the use of the blood II
sent for on Thursday, the Odd, and oil
the conversation with Littlefeld about
\ he dissccting vault. think that Pet-|
tee, in his testimony at the trial, put too!
my words about having settled
with DR.. p. Whatever / did say of theI
kind was in the hope that should be a.
BILE to paciiy DIR. +. and make arranged
ments with him, and was said in order|
to quiet Petite e, who was becoming resi-