The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-08-15
T1PToN. IOWA. AUGUST Is. 1879.

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basement. He remembered that OF
the day Parkman disappeared. th,
Professor, instead Of leaving the col
lege - soon - bis lecture was conclu
ded, as was his custom, remained lstt
In the evening, shut up iD the labra
tory and that, though there were nt
classes on Saturday and Monday, and
during the following week none aftcl
Tuesday, owing to the occurrence ol
. religious festival, DR.. Webster had
passed the greater part Of every day,
including even Sunday, till late hours
In the evening, In the labratory,
which he had never been known to
do before.
II was still moro remarkable that,
though he had directed the servants
not to light fires In his rooms on those
days, fires Of moro than ordinary siss
and intensity had been burning every
day, which tho Professor must have
laid and lighted himself. The doors
were kept locked, and the key Of one,
which led to . sink attached to the
laboratory, was carried away every
evening by Dr.. Webster. Saturday
was the usual day for cleaning and
iusting the apartments, but the Pro-
fessor had locked the doors, and
spoken to the servants through the
key-hole, desiring them to 60 away.
Littlefield had accidentally over
heard Parkman on one occasion charge
the Professor with fraud, and threaten
legal proceedings; and he remembered
that, on the same day, the Professor
asked him how access was hsd to the
vault below the School of Anatomy,
into which the human remains from
the dissecting table were cast, and
whether light would burn there.
Littlefeld replied to the latter query
In the negative. adding that he had
recently hung the head Of . negro to
macerate, but the cord rotted and the
skull fell. and the foul cir extinguished
the lamp when he tried to recover 1t.
On the day before Parkman disap-
peared. DR.. Webster had asked the
Porter to procure him jar Of human
blood from the hospital, saying that
he required it for experiments In the
lecture Of the following day but q
none Of the patients were bled on that
day, he was unable to procure 1t. He
had . misgiving that this blood was
to account for any stains Of
blood that might have been discovered
In the laboratory when 1t was visited
by the detectives.
He remembered, too, that he had
seem heavy hammer In DR.. Webster's
room on the day Parkman disappeared,
and that. though missed from lite ac-
place in another apartment,
It had not been seen since. On the
same day, at the time for extinguish.
Ing the fires aud clearing up the labo-
ratory, he found oil the Pr0fessor's
rooms locked. and could get no reply
from within, though he heard some
one moving about, and water running
from the tap over the sink. The doors
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ster left, contrary to his usual custom,
which was to leave them open.
Remembering all these things,
Ephraim Littlefield suspected that DR..
Webster had murdered Parkman and
OF the corpse in the college.
The only place which had not been
by the police was the vault.
aud the Professor had, since the day
Oh which Psrkman disappeared, kept
the key of the door leading to 1t In his
pocket. But Littlefield's suspicious
had becameso strong that he did not
to make an opening In the
outer wall, creep under the floors upon
his hands and knees until he reached
the vault, and make an aperature
therein large enough to admit his head
aud one arm. He then saw, by the
glimmering light Of latern, . thigh
and the lower portion Of the trunk Of
. human being lying upon the ground.
1t was on the evening Of the fourth
day after Parkman's disappearance
that this horrible discovery was made.
Littlefield Immediately communicat.
ed with the relatives of the professor.
and these. accompanied by an officer
Of police, descended into the vault and
raised therefrom the ghastly remnants.
which there was too much reason to
believe were those Of DR.. Parkham.
A warrant was immediately issued
for the arrest OF DR.. Webster; but the
officer who executed it merely inform
Ell him that the search at the college
was to be renewed, and that his pres
ence Ut the time was thought desirable.
The Professor accompanied them with
out betraying the slightest uneasiness
or reluctance. and 1t was not until the
vehicle In which they rude stopped
.. the city jsil that he was Informed
that he was prisoner.
He seemed to be struck Immediately
with horror and despair. He neither
protested his innocence nor acknowl-
edged his guilt, but begged that his
family might not be informed Of bis
position, andlthen ell into state Of
physical and mental prostration pain
ful to witness. He asked. In gasping
tone, for water, but he could not swal-
low, and his hand shook 90 that be
spilled the water and dropped the glass
upon the floor.
On the following day the upper por-
tion Of the trunk was found, imbedded
In tan, in an old tea chest, 70 packed
a. to appear to contain only mtneralog.
ical specimens; and this chest wae
proved to have been brought by the
carrier from DR.. Webster's residence
at Cambridge. together with sack o.
tan. A large and sharp knife. stained
with blood, and . butchers saw, wer'
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