Litchfield enquirer., 1850-07-11


lit was entirely dIsmsmhsTsd /; & ives
quickly done, as work Of terrible and
desperate necessity. The only inssru-
ment was the knife found BY the officers
in the tea chest. which ] kept for cutting
cOris. / made no use Of the Turkish
knife as il was called at the trial /; that
bad long been kept on my paIlor mantel-
piece in Cambridge, as q curious orna-
nent. My daughters frequently clean
ed it, hence the marks on il. Ihad
lately brought it into Boston to get the
silver sheath repaired"
The prisoner describes his mode Of
washing away the blood and burning the
fragments Of the body. He says the
stick with which he struck the fatal blow
Was the piece of the stump Of large
grape vine, which being porous. he
brought to the college for the purpose
Of chemical experiments in coloring
wood. He says:
| took up the two notes either from
the table or the door, | think the table,
close by where Dr.. p. had fallen /
seized an old metallic pen lying on the
table, dashed it across the face and thrO'
the signatures and put them in my pock-
ct; / do not know why did this rather
than put them in the fire, for had not
considered for . moment what effect
either mode Of disposing of them would
have on the mortgage, or my indebtedr
ness to Dr.. p"
He says he never saw the sledge ham,
mer described by Little6eld. or knew Of
it. We quote again as follows:
"On Saturday ! visited my rooms at
the College, but made no change in the
disposition OF the remains, and laid no
plans as to my future course on Satur-
day evening read the notice in the Tran.
script respecting the disappearance; I
was then deeply suppressed With the neces.
sl.y Of imHsdta.s'y taking spme ground
us TO the character OF my iD.eryiew wit h
Parkman, for | saw that j. must becoip
known that had had such a in'eIview.
'slf had des,gped and premetitaled the
| homicide Of DIR. Pafknan, i'll Dider 10 gel
the possession Of ihe notes, and cancel my
debt, l NOT only should not have deposited
Peiiee's check the next day, but should hays
made some show OF geti6S and having tie
money HE morning before. ! should nave
drawn the money from the Bank, anu IA
ken 0ccasioii 10 mention TO The Cashier
that ! had sum 10 make up ON that Day
for DR. r, and The same to henchma1
when borrowed The $40. should have
remarked that was So much short Of a
Large sam ina. ! was 10 pay Parkman. !
borrowed The nin.iey OF t1tnchmaa as mere
pocket money tor the day. II hal in-
tended The homicide Of pr. r SHOULD
not have made the appointment with hi
twice, aud EACH time IN SD open q mannet
that other PERSONS would CERTAINLY know
Of il.
After !he frs, yisDOf the officers, took
the pelyIs AND some Of Inc limbs from the
upper well, and threw them inIo the vault
under the privy. took The ,hotax from
the we'll below; and packed i. IN ihe tea
chest as tsnnd MY uwn impression has
been that this was mol ,iOne til alter the
second visit Vi The oiiice.s, which was 0n
Tuesday; bO. Kiugslry's testimony shows
that it mus. have bcen done sooner. TIE
perforatiOn of the thorax had teen mnde
by The kmIfe III the time Ot removing the
viscera. On "Wednesday put on BINDINGS
and made IRE in the fn nace below, hav-
ing 6,si p,ked down the ashes. Ssme of
ike lin bs. lcanDOt remember which 0r how
many. were consumed al that tine This
is the las ] hal TO do with the remaihs.--
Fhe lin box was designed 10 receive The
lh0ra x, though had mot ccnci uded VIII. re
| should finally pu, the box. The 6sh hicks
tied up as graPpleS. were % be used in draw
ing up the paris ~ the vault whenever |
shouid determine how to dispose 0i them.
had cORiu-ed double Otjeci ~ ordering
The box and making the kIapples. i had
before in,eD,ed to get such things to send
TO taya-lhe boz TO hold the plants and
other articles which I wished to protect
ftom the salt water and sea air. ind The
hooks 10 be used there in obtaining Ceralii.
ner plants tom the sea. II was this pre-
viously intended use CT them that suggest
ed and mixed i,self up with the idea ot the
other application.
] doubt even now to which use they
wOuli have been applied had nat used
the hooks Al the tire Of the discovery. The
tan put i0i0 The tea chest was taken from
barrel Of Il that mad been in the laboTa>
tory for some time. and the bag OF ian,
brought in Oh Monday. was not used nor
intended to be used IL belonged to IL quan>
liiy obtained BY me u long time ago. Tor
experiments in tanning, and was sent in by
the family 70 get !. out of the way. It's
being sent in just a that time was acct.
dental. Was not aware thai. had put the
knife in the chest. The stick found il the
saucer Of ink was for marking coarse dia>,
grams on cloth. The bunch Of filed keys
had been used iorg ago by me IN F,cnl ST.,
and thrown carelessly into drawer--I me-
yer examined them aud do NOT know
whether shey would a. any of the locks of
the COllegs or not. The nitrate acid on
the stairs was not used 10 remove spots Of
blood, bat vas dropped byaccidehs.1
Webster states that he did not know that