Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-01-21
From the Boston Herald
From the Boston Herald.
More Facts Concerning the Murder of
DR.. George Parkman-More Mysleri-
GUS Affairs Probability Of another
UIurAor

More Facts Concerning the Murder of
DR.. George Parkman-NIOre MySleri-
GUS Affairs Probability of another
Murder.
| The Grand Jury Of the county of Suffolk.
commenced yesterday, ths investigation of
the case OF DR.. John w. w ebs,er, charged
with the murder Of Dr.. George Parkman
Forty.two witnesses had been summoned to
give evidence; among Them are lhe exam.
ming physicians and chemists, Drs Wins.
low Lewis, Chas t. Jackson, Dr.. Kreep
and others, the officers of the police en-.
gaged in finding the remains of DR.. Park.
man, and Mr.. Li:tlelie!d, the man who
found them. Among those who will tesli.
ty, are Mr.. Isaiah and Leonard Fuller. iron
founders in | orth Grove street, a few rods
from the College. who saw Dr.. Parkman
60 into the building at half pas, O'Clock.
on the % of November last, and did no,
see him come out again.
1t is also stated that cabman will ties.
tify that he, on the night of the ALLEGED
murder, took DR.. Webster from his house
in Cambridge, about ten clock in the eve.
ming. brought him into this city and left him
at the Medical College, where he remained
all night; and that he took him back in his
cab in the morning, TO Cambridge
A new feature has been added 10 the
case by the knowledge of the singular dis
appearance that took place on the night
previous 10 the murder in this street. Il is
fact which has thus far been studiously
kept secret by the authorities. 1t appears
that young woman, about % years of
age, named Catharine Sproul, left the res
idonce of Mr.. Caleb Hows, Fo. 20, South
Grove street, on the evening of the 22d
November last, and has not been seen or
heard from since. She was rather a good
looking young woman, of Irish paren,age,
and resided in the family Of Mr.. Howe, as
a domestic asers5 7s.s,a
The circumstance of her disappearance
at this fatal period, taken in connection
with the finding of the infant near the
Medical College, few days after The mur
der Of DR.. Parkman, (buried in the dirt,
on what is called the New Jail Lands, has
given rise to terrible suspicious, and crea
ted another mystery, which it is to be
hoped the new Grand Jury will unravel.
There is certainly fearful tale yet to
be told concerning the North Grove street
murder; but since the establishment of Sc
cret Coroner's lnquisitions, the public must
be kept in the dark concerning all matters
of this description.
V THE PARKMAS TRAGEDY at Bos-
ton, came before the grand jury last
week. The Boston Herald of Saturday
says:
Prof. Webster's counsel have been fur
nished with copies Of evidence before the
Coroner's jury, and his counsel and friends
are as sanguine at this time, as they have
been from the first day Of bis arrest, that
full and complete defence can and will
bring him out triumphant.
The department ard bearing Professor
w. in his cell, is as much unlike that of a
prisoner under capital charge, as can be
imagined. He seems, to those who are
admitted to see him, like the secluded schol-
ar, the man of science. who has retired a
while from the scenes and turmoil of ac-
tive life. His counsel visit him quite Of
ten.
He is yet on terms of communication
with some, If not all, Of his brother profess
sors al Harvard.