The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-04-01

out at the Sont door he had his cane in his hand
and struck IT down upon the ground and said that
ls the very time that paid him four hundred and
eighty-three dollars and sixty cents. remember
ne put the cents on | told him I did not see Dr.
farkman come In Or go out Of the college, for
went directly into DR.. Wares Lecture-roorrl and
iaid down on a settee He said he counted the
money down to DR.. Parkman in his Lecture-room
ne SAID Dr. Parkman grabbed the money from the
taoie without counting it and az fast as he could
20, 1--WE Or three steps at time. He said Park
man told hlm that he would go with him to Cam
bridge and discharge mortgage, and Webster
saio suppose he did; have not been over to the
negister OF Deeds to see. He said this was the
hrst he had known Of il; he had read il in the
transcript; lie was there said to be engaged to
~ meet =. an uhknown gentleman he had come to see
ABOUT II, Tor he was the unknown gentleman; he
sad he had been to see DR.. Francis Parkmar he
then went away. When Webster spoke to me he
used to look me in. the face, his head up he did
not then, but looked down, and seemed confused
ana agltated never saw him look SO before :
cannot say which way he went, but thir it was
towards Cambridge.
On Monday [ could not get into his room to
make fire. The first | knew OF his being in the
college, my wife told me that DR.. Samuel Park
man had been there to see DIR. Webster asked
her how ne got in, seeing all the doors were kept
looked; went up the laboratory stairs, and saw
Dr. Samuel Parkman and DR.. Webster in the back
room they were talking about the old DR.. George
Parkman. overheard conversation about some
money.
There Is nothing new in the balance of the testi-
mony of Littefeld
Llttlefeld was about being cross-examined when
the court adjourned. His evidence is positive
against Webster
INCIDENTS IN THE CAsE-Testinaony of Lit-
tkefeId, etc.-Littefelds testimony in reference to
the Is visit OF the police to the Medical College
r ETaR mia -
Saturday, and given in detail below from the
Boston papers, attracted particular attention from
the prisoner who took notes Of it at the time
his testimony in reference to his having broken
hole through the wall of Websters privy, and
diseovered the human remains caused a deem muir
nur 70 rlng through the Courtroom and among
me crowds that were present. The anxiety to hear
ms testimony was general, and those who could not
gam admittance, went away very much disap-
pointed. The principal testimony on the mart of
the government, it is understood is now nearly in,
though some twenty other witnesses will be exam
med. he cross-examination of Littlefeld did not
take much time. Towards the hour of adjourn
ment on Friday, the Court and jury evidently felt
much fatigued after the long sttings of the four
previous days. The prisoner, on the contrary,
looked as well as usual. Since the commencement
Of the trial, his astonishing powers of endurance
and frmness, are said to have never forsaken him
Tor moment. After the adjournment Of the Court
! on Friday, he left the dock, walking through the
Courtroom witha light and elastic step and retiring
to his gloomy cell for the night. Several of his
friends and relatives have been assiduous in their
attentions to him, and have daily waited upon him
since the trial commenced.
The friends and relatives of the late,Dr. Parkman
also daily attend the trial. The members of the
bar have monopolzed the entire inner space on the
commencement of the trial, to the exclusion of the
press and public.
The knife, SO called, and which has been noticed
before, was again inspected by the Jury 1t was
not what is familiarity known as 4" a knife" or
: bowie Knife" but the Turkish " "Yatagann with
peculiar handle and sheath Of silver.
FOURTH DAY.-A tter,oon SessiO1a--Ephraim
llittleheld recalled. On Thanksgiving day, in the
afternoon, about three o'clock, began to work at
the wall, under the vault: | wanted to satisfy my
self as to there being any thing under the vault for
could not go out Of the College without somebody
sayias. TO me that DIR. p. was in the Medical Col.
legee-that he would be found there if he was ever
found any where; all the rest of the building had
been searched except that part of it that knew had
not been searched, because had the key of it |
went down the front scuttle lifted up the trap door
went 10 the back side of the wall, where officer
Fuller and myself had been the Tuesday before.
and began to work | had there a hammer and a
morticing ehisel; worked some time-got out
two courses of brick-but | could not do more
with those tools, 1 gave up work, about P NJ :
that night Iwent to the Thanksgiving Ball of the
Shakespeare Division of the Sons of Temperance,
at Cochituate Hall; next morning got IN about
nine O'Clock, and, as | sat at breakfast tDr. w
came into the kitchen and took up a paper and
appeared to be reading it.
He SAID sis there any more news?" 1 said
there was none. lie said that he had been in MIR,
Henchman's apothecary shop and Mr. H. had told
MN that woman had seen large bundle put into
a cab she remembered the number of the cab and
the cab was found and discovered to be all covered
with blood; | replied that there were so many
tpr1aa ahn IA, III
beheVe Prof. W. then went up stairs some time
after this was overseeing the arrangement of some
6usts which had employed some men to bring for
Dr. arren,s museum; DIR. Bigeow was present;
l told Dr. Henry J. Bigelow that had commenced
digging through the wall understood him to say
go ahead with it," | told DR.. B. all about Prof.
w keeping his doors locked. IThis last was ruled
out as incompetentl | went into the demonstra-
ton room and there l found DR.. ]. S. Jackson
alone told him was digging through the wall
he got up and came towards me said he, Little
held, feel dreadfuly about this matter and do you
go through the wall before you Sleep" he asked
me what l should do if i found any thing there
told him | should go to DR.. Holmes he said
" don't you go there, but go to old DR.. Bigeow, in
Summer ST., and then come and tell me write
your name on my slate and shall understand it,;
| did so.
then went to Leonard Fuller, and asked him to
lend me crow-bar. He asked me what wanted
ouo Win IT, tolu MN wanted to ulg hole In
brick wall, to carry lead pipe through the hole
Tor water. He then replied, :" guess youdon
then went to the house, and locked all the outside
doors, and left the keys on the inside so that no
one, not even Professor Webster, could get in let
down the latch of the front door then told nv
wife to keep watch, and see if any body came for
was going to work at the wall told her. if she
saw Froi Webster come, to give four sraps with a
hammer on the kitchen floor so that could hear
1t before she let him in but if the other Professors
came, to let them in, but not to disturb me; then
got pair OF gloves, and went to work at the wall
did not make much progress, and finally came up |
and went over to Fuller, and asked for cold chse
he gave me just such one as wanted ;went back |
to work, and got along for short time very fast |
but presently heard four raps above / ran up, and
my wife said, Il saw two gentlemen pass, and |
thought one of them was DR.. Webster, but they |
We're only Mr.. Kingsley and Officer Starkweather; |
they came to the door and inquired for you" | |
went out, and Mr.. Kingsley asked me what private |
place there was in the College that had not yet |
been searched. told him, and he said, 9 Let me |
go into his (Websters) room" replied, those
rooms were all locked up and we could not get into
them. They then went away; do not know which
way | saw Officer Trenholme standing in the
street. and told him that in half an hour or twenty
minutes | would give him the result of my labors
and | then went into the house. and my wife said,
: You We just saved your bacon coming up, for DR..
Webster has just now come in"
lObjected to by the defence as incompetentl
| did mt go to work again immediately; did MT /
see the Professor go in, but saw him come out he
came out of the shed, and spoke to me and Mr. |
rrenholme said that an Irishman on the other