Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-07-11

River Bank on Saturday, bot should
have suppressed il as going so lar to|
make up the sum which ] was toI
have prolessed to have paid the day.
before, and which Pettee knew | had
4 by me at the hour of interview. III
had not occurred to me that should
ever show the notes cancelled in|
proof of it, or | should have destroy
. ed the large note and let il be infer
red that il was gone with the nass-
ing man, and should only have|
kept the small one, which was all
THAT | could pretend TO have paid.
My single thought was o cal
ment and safety-ev thing 81
4 else was incidental to that. was.
/ iin no state to consider my ulterior|
pecuniary interest--money; though
ii needed it so much, it was Of 70 ac-
count to me in that condition oil
mind. If | had designed and pre-
meditated the homicide Of DR.. Park
man in order to get possession OF
the notes, and cancel my debt, | not
aonly should not have deposited Pet
tees check the next day, but should
shave made some show of getting and
Having the money the morning be-
fore. | should have drawn my mon.
ey from the bank and taken occasion|
Ito mention to the Cashier, that had
sum to make up on that day for
7Dr. P, and the same 10 Henchman,|
when borrowed the $40. / should
have remarked that | was so much
short of a large sum that ] was to|
pay Parkman. / borrowed the sum-
Aoi Henchman as mere pocket money!
for the day. If had intended thel
homicide OF DR.. P. should not have
made the appointment with h i mi
twice, and each time in so open al
manner that other persons would al
zmost certainly know Of it, and should
Enot have invited him TO my rooms
at an hour when the College would
be full Of students and others, and AMI
ahour when was most likely to re-
ceive calls from others; for that was,
the hour just after the lecture, at
which persons having business with
me or in my rooms, were always d.
rected to call. | looked into my
rooms on Sunday afternoon, but did
nothing. After the first visit oi the
officers took the pelvis and some Of
the limbs from the upper well and
threw them into the vault under the
privy. | took the thorax from the
well below aud packed it in the tea
chest as found. My own impression
has been that this was not done till
after the second visit of the officers,
which was on Tuesday; but Kings
/ hley's testimony shows that it must
have been done sooner. The perio-
u ration Of the ;horax had been made
by the knife at the time Of removing
! the viscera. On Wednesday | put
on kindlings and made a fire in the
furnace below, having first poked
down the ashes. Some OF the limbs
i cannot remember which or how
many--were consumed al that time.
This is the last had TO do with the
remains. The Tin box was designed
to receive the thorax, though | had
no. concluded where | should finally
put the box. The fish hooks, tied
up as grapples, were TO be used for
drawing up the parts in the vault
whenever | should determine how
to dispose of them and get strings
enough. | had a confused double
!. object in ordering the box and max
ling the g:apples. had before in
tended 10 get such things to send TO
! HFayaI-the box 10 hold the plants
and other articles which wished to
! protect from the salt waller and the
sea air, and the hooks to be used
there in obtaining Coralline plants
from the sea. Ii was this previous
Iy intended use Of them that suggest
ed and mixed itself up with the idea
OF the other application. | doubt
even now 10 which use they would
have been applied; | had not used
the hooks at the time Of the discov-
ery.
The tan put into the tea-chest
was taken from a barrel of it that
had been in the laboratory for some
time; the bag Of tan brought in on
MONDAY, was not used, nor intended
to be used; it belonged TO a quantityI
obtained by me long time ago for
Experiments in tanning, and wa s
6sent in by the family 10 get it out of
the way. Its being sent in just at
THAT time was accidental. / was not
aware that l had put the knife in|
THE chest; the stick found in the|
saucer Of ink was for marking coarse
kilograms on cloth; the bunch offi!ed|
keys had been used long ago by me
hin Front street and thrown careless
ly into a drawer; l never examined
them, and do not know whether theyI
would fit any ofthe locks Of the Col
No. or nof. if thara WARE other keVsu