Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1850-07-19


per laboratory; they were all consume,
there that afternoon, with papers, peck
et-book and whatever they contained
| did not examine the pockets nor remov,
anything except the watch. saw that
or the chain of il, hanging out. tool
il and threw it over the bridge as wen
flo Cambridge. Ny next move was 10
fget the body into the sink which stand.
lin the small private room, by setting til,
body partially erect against the corner
eand by getting up into the sink myself
Il succeeded in drawing it up there; i
twas entirely dismembered; it was quick
Ily done, as a work of terrible and des
Iperate necessity. The only instrument
fused was the knife found by The officer.
'in the tea chest, which kept for cutting
Icerks. / made no use of the Turkish
knife, as it was called at the trial; tha
|had long been kept on my parlor mantel
piece in Cambridge, as curious orna-
Iment.
| My daughters frequently cleaned il
hence the marks of oil and polishing
found on it. / had lately brought it in.
TO Boston to get the silver sheath repair.
led.
While Remembering the body stream
|oi Cochituate water was running through
the sink carrying of the blood in pipe
|that passed down through the lower lab
|ratory. There must have been leak
lin the pipe, for the ceiling below was
stained immediately around it.
There was a fire burning in the fur
mace of the lower laboratory; Littlefeld
WAS mistaken in thinking there had new
Ter been fire there; he had proba-
|bly never kindled one, but had done
1t myself several times; had done il
that day for the purpose Of making oxy-
gen gas; the head and yiscera were put
into that furnace that day, and fuel heap
led on; did not examine at night TO see
10 what degree they were consumed;
some of the extremities were put in there,
i believe, on that day. The pelvis and
some of the limbs, perhaps, were all put
under the lid Of the lecture room table,
lin what is called the well, deep sink Ii
|ned with lead; stream of CoclIituate
was turned into it and kept running thro'
III all Friday night; the thorax was put
into similar well in the lower laborato.
Try which filled with water and threw
lin quantity of potash which found
there. The disposition of tie remains
was not changed till after the visit of the
officers on Monday. When the body
had been thus all disposed of, l cleared
away all traces of what had been done.
think the stick with which The fatal
blow had been struck proved TO be a
piece of the stump Of a large grape vine
SAY two inches in diameter and two
feet long. 1t was one of several pieces
which | had carried in from Cambridge
long before, for the purpose of showing
the effect of certain chemical fluids in
coloring wood by being absorbed into the
pores; the grape vine being very po-
roua wood was well adapted TO this pur-
pose. Another longer stick had been
used as intended and exhibited to the
students; this one had not been nscd-I
put il into the fire.
/ took up the two notes either from the
table or the floor, think the table, close
by where DIR. p. had fallen; 1 siezed an old
'mctalic pen lying on the table, dashed il
across the face and through the signatures,
and put them in my pocket, do not
know why | did this rather than put
Them in the fire, for ! had not consider
led for moment what effect either mode
'of disposing of them would have on the
mortgage, or my Indebtedness to DR.. p.
land the other persons interested, and
had not yet given single thought TO the
Question as to what account should give
|of the objects of the interview with DR..
|P.; never saw the sledge hammer spo-
ken of by Litllefeld- never knew Of its
!existence-at least have no recollec-
ltion of it; | left the College to 60 home
has late as six o'clock; l collected myself
las well as | could, that might meet my
family and others with composure. On
saturday visited my rooms at the Col
Ilege, but made no change in the DISPOSE
|tion of the remains, and laid no plans as
Ito my future course; on Saturday even
ling read the notice in the Transcript res
|pecting the disappearance; was then
deeply impressed with the necessity Of
Immediately taking some ground as to
the character OF my interview with Park
man, for saw tina, il must become known
that had had such an interview, as
HAD appointed il first by an unsealed
note on Tuesday, and Friday / had my.
self called al his house in open day and
ratified the arrangement, and had there
been seen and had probably been over.
heard by the man servant. and | knew
not by how many persons DIR. p. nigh
have been seen entering my room, OF
how many persons he might have tolt
by the way where he was going, the in
I.erview would in all probability be knows
and must be ready TO explain il. The
Question exercised me much, but on Sun
day my course was taken. would g
iuto Boston and be the FIRST to declar.
myself the person as yet unknown will
whom DR.. p. had made the appointment
/ would take the ground that | had inyi
ted him to the College 10 pay him hin
money, and that had paid il according
ly. | fixed upon the sum by taking III