The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-09-05
Execution OF DR.. John White Webster at Boston


This morning, Professor John White
the law, for the murder of DR.. George
Parkman in the Boston Medical College,
on the 23d of November, lS49.
TIE execution took place in the yard
ofthe Leverett street Jail, in presence Of
about three hundred persons, who were
invited to attend by Sheriff Eveleth.
Long before the time fixed for the ex-
ecution, the streets in the vicinity exhib-
tied an extraordinary excitement, and
thousands congregated on the roofs and
in the windows of all the buildings
in the vicinity, In the hope of getting a
view of the prisoner, either as he stood
upon the scaffold, or as he passed through
the yard to it. Premiums were freely
offered and given for choice places where
the scaffold might be viewed.
strangers poured into the city by thous-
ands, and We'd with the citizens in exer-
tions to get a good view of the last sad
scene. A large awning was erected over
the scaffold, which to considerable ex-
tent distracted the view. 1t was an
nounced that the execution would take
place at nine O'Clock, though the persons
admitted were notified to be present at
eight O'Clock.
Among those admitted to the Jail yard
were several reporters for the press of
this and other cities.
The prisoner was attended in his cell,
before the execution, by Rev, DR.. Put
man ahd few others, and appropriate and
deeply affecting religious services were
held.
Considerable time was consumed by
these and other causes Of detention.-
The prisoner was at length conducted
from the jail through the yard to the
|scaffoid, walking firmly and conducting
himself with the composure that he has
all along exhibited.
He ascended the scafold, the rope was
adjusted by Sheriff Eveleth, and at pre-
cisely twenty minutes before ten o'clock,
the drop fell, and he was swung into eter-
nifty.
He died without struggle, and after
being suspended for some time, the body
was taken down and carried into the
prison again.
Professor Webster's bearing up to the
time of the execution was firm as ever.
He expressed the deepest penitence for
his crime, and his sense of the full justice
OF his sentence and execution.
No new confssion was made, as was re-
ported would be the case, and no new
statements have come to light as yet,
since the execution. The report that he
left any other statements, TO be opened
after his death, is not believed.
In compliance with one of the last re-
quests of the unhappy man, his body will
be laid out in the prison, and remain there
unil to night, when it will be removed to
his late residence IN Cambridge, from
whence it will probably be inferred pri-
vately at Mount Auburn.
Mrs. Webes ter und her daughters are
as yet unacquinted with the fact of
his execution. Their last visit to the
prison was on was yesterday the usu-
al day for their visits, and as they
always parted as if they were never to
meet again, nothing unusual occurred to
indicate to them that the day of execution
was so near. The sad intelligence will
be communicated to them as quietly as
possible. to-day, TO prepare them, IN a
measu re, for the reception of the corpse
to -night.-Ereaing Bulletin.
I'm Lnveterate.-Mr. Paine. the great
shot at the recipient of explosive cigars.
and the well known maker of gas, now
gives as reason for not explaining the
"whoie thing" about his ae,o light, that
experiments are in progress with respec,
to 1t OF far more importance than its ap-