The New York Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1850, Page 1

wow erens wares em ee ee me a a a ak aE a at ttt } } ! | | 4 NO. 5713. DOUBLE SHEET. THE PARKMAN TRAGEDY. & Review of the Eviderce of Dr. Webster's t—New and Astounding Develope- ments, Boston, January 26, 1850. James Gorpon Bexnett, Esq. Much has already been written and published with regard to the recent appalling tragedy at the Medical College, in this city. Facts in the case, implicating Dr. Webster as the murderer of Dr. Parkman, divulged soon after the discovery of the dead body in the College, left, for quite a length of tyme, no other impression on the public mind than that of Dr. Webster’s guilt; and Ido not think that Reneral opinion has been maternally changed even to the present hour. But certain it 1s, that withina | few weeks strenuous efforts of a most extraordina- ry character have been made to change public sea- sument, make Dr. Webster appear an innocent and persecuted man, and fasten the crime of murder upon an individual against whom no evidence of guilt can be found, except in the imaginations and desires of Dr. Wevster’s personal friends. Why sit, if these writers know as much as they pro- fess, tending to clear Dr. Webster, that they do not ‘send their correspondence to journals in this vici- nity? If their letters contained the least shadow of truth, not a Boston newspaper would refuse to publish them. I leds persiculariy. to a letter that recently appeared in Savannah Ri ican, «(merely as one of a number of the same character, sent to distant cities,) parpercing to be written by “an intelligent citizen of Boston,” and sent to a “fend” in Savannah. The letter alluded tois dated at Cambridge, the iy where Dr. Webster’s family resides, and was probably written by Judge 8. Fay. Itcontains a series of most palpa- | bie untruths, and is calculated to lead into error the minds of all persons, uta distance, who read :t. ‘The New York Herald being the best mediam for | leyenghaiome the United States public the facts with | re} to any subject of interest, 1 present to you a brief narrative of occurrences us they have actually transpiied, in the case of the murder of Dr George | Parkinan.. Without referring particularly to the letters written by Dr. Webster's friends, I will merely attempt to disabuse the public mind of errors exeate by. many univunded statements hitherto published in various quarters, by present- ing the following review of matiers crimumating Dr. Wel , und an array of evidence which is ithered from sources of undoubted credibility. | lo this without wishing to piejudge and convict Dr. Webster—whoee fate is left for our Supreme | ‘Court to decide—but with the feeling that crime shoule not go unpunished, evea though the perpe- trator belong to the highest class in the commuui- ty. Itis a lamentble fact, that in this vicinity the poor man often sufiers the penalty of the law, when the rich man, though equally crimiual, cuta, with a golden kuife, the cords that bind him, and escapes. Dr. George Parkman suddenly and mysteriously disappeared on Friday atternoon, the 23d day of Lutle public excitement was inches at the top. Mr. Clapp endeavored to look through, and inquired ‘ What place is. this ?” Little eld replied, * That 1s Dr. Webster's private privy; he has the key.” Immediately on this, Dr. Webster started for the opposite corner of the room, and exclaimed hastily, Gentlemen, here 1s another apartment where I keep my dangerous articles,” and ierawing open a door, diverted the officers’ avention, and the whole party crossed In the last room nothing was seen but jars, &c., and the officers made ne criti- cel examination of the place. Dr. Webster then threw open the door to an entry leading to the dis- secting room, and the officers soon passed out and left. In this connection [ would express my firm belief that, bad the officers at that time insisted on seeing the interior of the privy, they would have there beheld the clotted and mutilated carcass of Dr. Parkman. Thus matters remained for the present, so far as respected searches made by the police. It is well known that Ephraim Litefield was the first to discover any portion of the remains of Dr. Perkman. This portion of the evidence, as pre- sented to the Coroner’s jury, | will now review. To Dr. Webster's apartments in the college, from the time of the first occupaney of the build- ing, Litlefield, as jamtor, had always had free access. When Dr. Webster left at wight the doors were leit unlocked, and, at Dr. Webster's request, Littlefield was in the habit of doing cer- tain chores in those apartments, such as filling water carke, building fires, ec. ‘But—and this 18 a remarkable fact, bearing hard on the ease—trom the very afternoon of Dr. varkman’s disappear- ance, the doors of these rooms, whether Dr. Webster was inside or ont, were invariably locked, by nightand by day. Littlefield, of course, thought ita singular circumstance; but | do not know that he had py euspicions of the cause for at least two days. On Sunday afternoon, the 25th, a little betore dark, Littletield was standing on the corer ot Fruit sneet, a few rods from the college, con- versing with a friend, when Dr. Webster was seen coming up the street towards them On arriving at the-epot where they stood, Dr. Webster imme- diately mentioned the digappearance of Dr. Park- men, said he had’only heard of it that day, and had come in trom Cambridge purposely to inquire about it. Some cenversation ensued with re gard tothe matter, and Dr. Webster went on to relate that just betore the reported disappear- ance, Dr. Pakman had come to his room—that he (Webster) had paid Parkman a note of over $400—that Parkman acted very strangely, and, as soon as he received the money, without stopping 10 count dt, ran up the lecture room, two stairs at atime, end hastily disappeared. While Dr. Web- ster told this his eyes were bent on the ground, his whole trame shook, and his agitation was such astobe remaked and remembered by both lis hearers. Dr. Webster’s conduct on this occasion, together with the fact of keeping his doors locked. excited inthe mird of Litiefeld a suspicioa an curiosity not easily to be satisfied. 1 understand that be, that seme night, mentioned his belief that “Webster had killed Parkman,” to his wife; that she reproved him for the remark, and said, “Never mention such an absurd idea again to any body.” The next afternoon, taking the opportu- nity when Dr. Webster was out of the building, Litdefield, when the tide was low, crept round on the river side of the building, and, after some ef- fort, clambered into the window of the laboratory. He entered the room, and observed that under- neath the furnace, (about a footsquare,) remain- ovember : manifested until he had been missing for two or three days, and then the anxiety to know his where- | abouts became gencral. Hendbills, offering alarge | |, Were posted on every coraer, policemen | were sent in every direction, and hundreds of men, | in the hope of reward, turned out to scrutinize the highways and byeways of the surrounding countr’ rake and scrape the saspicious purlieus of the We: End, and grapple in the neighboring nvers an Jo the meantime, a rumor was aflout that . Parkman, when last seen, was on his way to East Cambridge going thither to discharge a mort- which had shortly before been settled with | . Webster, who had paid him a certain sum of | a. This rumor was traced to Dr. Web: shimself. Search was of course made in the v nity-of Cambridge. Nothing being discovered, the | most re appreheasions—feurs ofa secret mur- | der— the public mind. Bat for seven days, not the slightest whisper of suapicion was breathes against the fair fame ot Dr. Weoster, so far as wes pp to the public. On the afternoon of the 30th | November, a portion of the mutilated remains of | Dr. Parkman were discovered in a part of the Medi- | cal College to which Dr, Parkman alone had ac- | cess. On the evening of the sume day, Dr. Web- ster was arrested conveyed to Leverett street ~ ‘The prisoner is charged with the murder of | Dr. Parkman ‘The ‘ieap oF inquest, under the di- | rection of Coroner Pratt (whilom a Methodist oe, alterwards Colonel of the 34 Regim ee and now Coroner and Deputy Sheriti jul also a deacon in the church, to sey nothing © etice at the bar), have endeavored to keep in found secrecy the evidence which come beiore But, notwithstanding this out- rageous proceeding of seid jary, upheld py neither law nor precedent, a large number ot appalling tacts have been divulged, and, with your perinis- siop, | will give, in detail, such as have come to my knowlkdge, from the most authenticated source: 8. It sppears by evidence before the Coroner's and Grand , i #, that from the very first disap: pearance of Dr, Parkman, his agent or private se- eretary, Mr. Charles M. hingeley, had his sus- acions pointed in the direction of the Medical lege, and at Dr. Webster ne the only person who could. tell of the missing man’s whereabouts — K knew well that Dr. Webster was the debtor of Dr. Parkman—that trequent difficulties bad occurred between them— and that, about one o’clock on the 23d day of November, Dr. Parkman lett home to go to the Medical College, there tore- | ceive the sum of from Dr. Webster, 19 pay- ment of a note which had been some time due— | Kingeley knew that Dr. Parkman had made repeat- ed nds tor payment—that Dr. Webster, ex- asperated, herrassed, and desperate, had repeated- ly threatened Dr. Parkman in very serious terms ; and Kingsley knew, from inquiries made at the outset, that Dr. Parkman did go to the College be- tween one and two o'clock ou the day epecined— in fact, after one or two days elapsed, and the ex- citement became general, Dr. ebster him: admitied the truth of Dr. Barkmon’s reported to his room et that time. Mr. first to put the police on the right tre day, the 25th, Mr. K., 1m company with efficer | Starkweather, visited the College building, and went throw, room,) and the las boratory immediately underneath ; the of ee rooms were ed, and no entrance was ob- | |. Of course, n* discovery was made. On fa few of the police visited the building, ‘another search was made, with the same re- — On Tuesday, Mr. Clapp and oiher went oe on sy lege, deter- ined on making a thoros search. met, at the door, Mr-fiphraim Llttlefeld, the janttor of i the college, who recides with is family, in the basement of the building. Mr, Clapp intormed Littlefield of his determination, and de: L's. co-operation. Littlefield remarked that the whole building had been thorough searched, wi tion of Dr. Webster's : pment, in which Dr. Webster then rs and Littlefield then proceeded to ft the chemical lecture | but the was locked on the inside. Littlefield knock- ‘no one came; he then gave three loud raps short time Dr. Webster giened the door, aud ood a little door, a on 01 ae a bum that the officers s es a te, oes . it mi them to examine (Dr. W's) f— Be weil of the College. Lr. Webster was oes and said noth 3 but, mo- to the party, founedeately tod the way = Seay face nas Near Sal | the ofa, the arty gue nS ster le ry, & large , and two the party noticed nothing parti- | dr. Webster's condeds taey | recollection that the Doctor, | laboratory, seemed hat | He pomted hurriedly to va- room, making such remarks my furnace; thete are the ; those are minerals on ir. Clapp being in one core hed the Doctor's private ce built under the stairs, In ihe upper pert of the door of this privy was a pane of glass inserted, which was painted white, wil the exception of three or four ae | on Fr ith the excep- | apartment, (which | er | ed the embers of @ very het fire; the furnace was filled with something, the nature of which he could not distinguish, and was covered with seve- rel crucibles, also containing some waknown mat- ter. He also remarked that two barrels of piteh ine kindhnge, filed only a few 4 before, had een nearly emptied; the privy was locked, and he of course, made no entrance. After a hasty ¢: emination of the premises, (satisfied that some- thing mystenous was going on, he was loath to suspect what,) he made his exit fromthe labora- | | tory by the seme way that he entered. Jn the meantime, a person went to the City Mar- shel, and testified that about hwlt-past one_o’clock , the 23d, be saw Dr. Parkman enter the Med ‘ollege, and, wishing to see him on busi- ress, waited upwards of an hour outside the bui ing, but did not see Dr. P. come out; und 1 certain that Dr. P. could not have left the premi: without being witnessed. This contradicts Web- statement, that his business with Parkman y settled, and that Dr. Parkman leftim- ly. About this time, also, vague susyi- were thrown out by persons doing business viewity, that * when Dr. Parkman's on found, it would be inthe Medical College.” Al naturally came to the ears of Littlefield only served to confirm him in the opinion hie suspicions were correet. At any rate, on T! dy, he went so far as to inform Drs. H. J Biges jow and J. B. 8. Jackson ot the out-door talk with regard to the college, and his own suspicions of Dr. Webster, telling them that the only place which had not been searched was the large vault beneath Webster's laboratory, the only opening to which was the small hole in W.’s yrivate privy. The gentlemen were horror struck, and seemed to think seriously of the remarks made by Littlefield. The only way by which access could be obtained to the vault, except through the privy, or the floor of the | laboratory, was by descending through a small scuttle, in @ part cf the basement used to store | wood, seme forty feet distant, and after crawling | that distance, on hands and Knees, breaking | through a brickewall five courses thick, Drs, Jack= ron and Bigelow immediately told Littlefield to “ eflect an entrence to the vault, at ell hazards, end not to sleep until he had accomplished his ob- ject.” That (Thursday) evening, Littlefield crept under the beeement floor, and, witha hammer and # cold chisel, commenced operations—his wife, all the while, keeping watch above, to see that Dr. | Webster did not enter and discover their proceed- ings. Littefield worked nearly all that night, but without completing his object. The next forenoon he was prevented from proceeding further, on ac- | ccunt of Dr. Webster being ia the Juboratory, | Dre. Jackson and Bigelow were made ucquainted | by Litilefield of bis proceedings thus far ; and Dr. igelow, anxious to Jeurn the reeolt of the affair, | told Linlefield to break into the vault as speedily ‘as porsible, and, if he found anythivg, to come itn- mediately to his (Bigelow's) hovse, and inform | bim : f he wes not in, Littlefield was to write his name on a slate in the entry, and proceed to Dr. | Jackron’s. About two o'clock set himeelf to w . In an hour or two | he hed made q rge aperture in the wall, and, on gezing throvgh into the vault, there discovered, Ww feet Setast, and directly under Web- y, two distinct portions human body | —one, nearly the whole of a ma leg ; and | the other, the pelvis and connecting ‘Littles | field gazed but a moment, and then in diemay. Hurry ing to the house of Dr. Bigelow, Littlefield, with horror depicted on bis countenance, could only exclaim, “I've fonnd it, I've found it!” It is said that he acted almest ikea madman, Bigelow and Lit- tlefield then proceeded to the house of Dr, Ja | son, informed him of the discovery made. he, with a few offices immediately started tor ‘ the college. Mr. ley and a few @hers were | leo sent for. In a short ime the whole party met in the besement of the college building. After a | relation of Littlefield’s operations, offer Clay | Mr. Kingsley, Littlefield, and others, deecen } the out , and mee thelr way to the breach Jn the wall. After viewing well the position of 1 | parts of a dead body that laid in the vaule, the re- | mains were removed to the and plac on a board, near to the seuttle-w Uoroner | Pratt, Distriet a Parker, James Ii. Blake, Ep cthers, had by this time arrived; and a on held, as to what course should be pureued. The Mayor, howe erance, and advised that an entrance to ihe Ie ratory be effected. This was soon done, and on age geome of me Pe ce before alluded t ee one, iver falee rei scme kind of a ing to Webst« son preeent don! t murdered on those premises, nor could they resist the conviction that Webster was the murderer. A warrant wae immediately issued for the arrest | in the aehes. of Jobn Ly ee aoe eee Clapp, care weather, Ir, proceedet jn a close ca ge To Cambridge, toctcct it. They found the doett athome, Hiepeantly told him that his presence was require: d atthe Dr. jukmen, ind he ny them, conversin; the cong A Was not Tatortmeal Tested unt) they arrived at the Leverett street jul. Dr. Webster was then conveyed to a cell, i, officer Starkweether, where he Pete i ne o'clock. It 1s ted that while my |, Dr. Webster wes pen no ly agitated, ond been previously told of what had co four: college.) excla a rately noted down by Starkweather. A little after nine o'clock, the pri was again brought into the jail office, and was there waited by the District Attorney, who epoke very kindly whim, jedieal College, to assist in another consented ene n- | formation wes conveyed to Marshal Tukey, and | | and expressed the hope that he would be able to prove hisimnocence. | 5 About ten o’clock at night, with Dr. Webster in custody, the party proceeded to the Medical Col- lege, in Grove street. On their arrival, Webster was found to be faint and tottering, and required two men to support him. He was led up the front steps and into the lecture room, and then to the door of his private apartment. He was asked if he had the key to the door; and he replied that he had not. The door was then forced open, and the perty entered. Nothing ae suspicious was seen. Dr W. was asked if he had the key to his pnyy; and he replied, ‘Itis hangieg up there,” pointing to the wall ina | ap cineet, the door of which was wide open. Search was made, but no key found ; on being interrogated again, he said that he did not know where it was. (Afterwards, on being searched at the jail, the key was found in his pecket) The whole party then passed down the stairs, through the laboratory, and into that part ef the basement where the remains had been placed ona board, The gent!emen present gather- ed round, and Dr. Webster was led forward to confiont the mangled parts of a human body. On coming in sight of the horrid spectacle, his agita- tation was intense—the sweat rolled in big drops from his forehead, and he would have sunk to the ground had he not been supported ; but he uttered not a word. It was a melancholy scene, and the prisoner was soon hurried away to jail. The next day (Saturday), a minute search was commenced in the dpartnent leading from the lecture room. Stains of blood were found on the floor, and traced all the way down the stairs into the laboratory. Indications of an attempt to obli- terate some of the spots of blood with acid were | plainly visible. All the ashes in the furnace were. | teken out, and, on raking them over, a block of false teeth, two inches long, was found. (These teeth were bfterwards fully identified by Dr. Keep, dentist, who testified, before the Coroner's jury, that he had, but a few weeks previous, inserte them in the mouth of Dr. Parkman, and produced the original mould, to which the block of teeth fitted exactly.) Four large blankets and a coverlid were found in the laboratory ; those articles are proved to have come from Dr. Webster’s house, and could have been wented for no purpose but to cover up the windows. In the course of the day, officer Fuller, one of the party engaged 1 search- ing the jaboratory, while poking over a pile of boxes and rubbieh in the recess of the room, pulled out an old tea-chest, which seemed ra- ther weighty. He forced off the cover, and the chest presented the appearance of being filled with minerals. Taking out a part of the couteats, he ran his hand down into the chest, and it came ii with something sott and damp; a bad ing from the chest, was also observed Mr. Fuller then turned the chest over, and emptied the contents on the floor. Parts of a human body were found closely packed im tan, embracing the part from the neck to the middie, and that portion of a men’s left leg reaching from the knee to the thi, int. A large sized razor-bladed jack-knife, will ins ot blood upon it, was also found. The wits last discovered were laid in order with those ound on the evening previous, and it was at ouce seen that they belonged to the same body—all parts being in the same siate of decomposition. In the breast of the dead body were discovered two deep wounds, apparently inflicted with the Kuite foun in the chest. Shoriy afterwards ahamao kidsey was found in some rubbish ina by-place adjoiniag the laboratory. Next was found concested a pair of pants, (identified as Webster's) besmeared with ; end then, in the same vicinity, a smal! hand- | saw, clotied with gore. Before the day’s search was ended, calcined bones of almost every limb of the human frame were found, and arraaged in _or- der. There is vague story of some large fish- hocks being diecovered, which were attached to a cod-line,£0 28 to form a grapple, and had some connection with tJ pertions of the carcass found in the vault. I think there 18 some truth in the story, but never having had a lengthy exami nation of the writtea evidenee, | cannot detail the fects on this point. In Dr. Webster's desk, in the upper room, were found four talee keys, which could open every door leading into bis apartineuts, as, also, hia privy. | cannot divine what was the object of these keys, without it was Webster's ta- ‘ tenuon, if hard pushed, to place them on Liithe- field’s premives, and change the current of suspi- cion. On Sunday, December 2d, a coroner's jury was svinmoned; and the jury, alter viewing the re- meine, adjourned for afew days, in order that & medical committee might make a critical exaui- nation thereof, and pass their opinion as to wdentis | ) ve ery ope knows the result of the iavestiga- tions of the medical committee und the coroner's jury. Lunderetand that the sole defence to be set | up by Webster's counsel is, that it was not Park- | men’s bocy that was found in the coliege. This is javey weak pout in the ease, There were pecu- | jierides on Dr. Porkman’s body, most readily iden- tibed, and not to be dieputed, viz: tufts of hair on his shoulder blades; & ear, caused by a a i) operation. ¥ paragraph canpot be published } The Coroner's | verdict a8 well remembered—the | stat con- ciseness of its language—*' that George Paik- man came to his death by the hands ef Joha W. Websier.” Before that jury, evidence of the bluckest ebaracter was produced ; and although the public were estounded at the decided conelu- sion arnived at by the coroner's jury, that verdict Willyetbe found to have been tully warranted, cur citizens generally are now satisfied, from the recent finding of the Grand Jury ot Sutiolk ; but, whenever the trial hop pate, testimony will be presented more deep and camming in ite character iban the public bave yet suspected. Attorney General Cliflord, who will manage the government, expresses the 0 ster conld be convicted on even whole evidence that cen be preduces more doubt in bis mind that Webete actually premeditated murder, than ‘Lhe evidence of Webster's guilt is enurely circam- but itembraces a multitude of facts, not 1 will present a few of ted, in various ways, irom the of authori er the disappearance of Dr. ty Marvbal Tuber received from Last | Com briege, through the Post Office, a note written half a rbeet of letter paper, bedly opt, os iterate throughe ut, informing him that Dr. rat ke bed been killed m and that bedy had been brow, into Boston and put that had just left port. The lever na disguised hand-writing, and so y incongraities eppeered in the writer's at- tempt to epeil wrongly, that no credence was placed in it. Afterwars, on searching Webster's desk at the College, a balf sheet of letter paper wes feund, corresponding exactly with that oa which thie leer was written. ‘The next day after Porkman’s disappearance, a | check or draft picked up in the street at East Cambridge, which had been paid Dr. Parkman 8 before, on account of rent, by one , 4 Fy be ed that Webster homeelt. drey that paper ; was seen to open ailet, Whe was walking along the street, t mentioned ¥ | pase te Fgh of eee intended to direct | eurpicien in the wrong quarter. It is alleged that man entered the ootage above belt bone oné o'clock, on , Nov. | | he wee reen to go in, but was fever to come j out. From hour, all doors to ‘Webster's apartments were , was in his rooms nearly the w a | when pores 7 bri. > were cuulores fa a nen m oul a they observe: twoer three ants, 0 dene black smoke aris frem the chimney of that part of the college occu- pred by Webster; the pitch-pine kindlings were probe bly then in vee. ‘Webster ond hie friends say that he was atthe house of Judge Fay, in Cambridge, that evening, playing wr iat. Very troe—but it be oz < a ebeter came ry veh Gah w o’clech that night; a carri river thie, ond eee 1 «We er eft the the next morning. Lal ang I think, testifies thet Webster, two or three eve- nings of the week succeeding the murder, remaiced ot the college to a very late hour—a cir cumetence he hed never known to happen re. ‘There are aleo witnesresin this cose, who testi thet they saw Webster in the vicinity of the ~~ Inte ight, end that he eee Patel expreseman, name lesti- fies that, or (wo after the imerder, he bepagha faggots to the college for Dr. Webster; alo, a quannty of ten, in seme of which a part of Park- men's ‘Was afterwards found ed. hooks, at- 1 slinded above to seme large teched ton eed | A herdware merchant, im Dock Square, eye that Dr. Webster came into hie siore, the corly pert of the eame week hé was ar- rested, end imquited for rome large 8; but, net finding ‘large enough,” as he said, made no porehase. The hooks that were found, ever, were traced to another estore; and, a deys emce, two of the clerks, being asked if could identify the person who bought them, sai they believed they could. They were carned down to the jail, and brovght to Webster's cell MORNING EDITION----MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1850. window. Webster was dressed in a morning- gown, and had on 8 fener smoking-cap ; the young men thought they could identify him as he then | wan bat sald if they could see him im his usual | habiliments, they could tell sure. Webster was then requested to don his hat and outside coat, which he coolly and readily did, and the clerks then declared positively that he was the person | who boughtthe hooks. Considerable conjecture has arisen in many minds as to the use to which he intended to put the fish-hook grapple. It may | be that Webster, after a few days, was feartul the | vault would be searched; an examination had been made of his own apartments, and he perhaps felt tafe in that quarter ; his object, then, must have | been to recover the parts of the body which he had thrown down the privy, and secrete them in some | other manner. There is another remarkable circumstance, which I beheve has net been published Litile- field, in his testimony, says that a sledge-hammer, left by some of the workmen when the building was completed, had been standing in one corner of Webster’s apartment fora long time ; but afew days before the murder, the hammer appearing to be somewhat in the way, he (Littlefield) carried it down to the laboratory, and stood 1t against one of the fixtures of the room. Aud what is singular, when the laboratory was thoroughly searched, this in- strument was not to be found. Bat a woman, who lives near by, testifes that she saw Dr. Web- ster come out of the college one evening, a litte before dark, and, passing nearker, she observed that he had under his arm a. singularly shaped bundle; it was two or three feet long, and was smail round, with the exception of one end; what ever the. article was, it was wrapped closely in paper, with twine wound round it. ecording to the women’s deecription, this must have been the missing sledge, and 1 hazard little in saying, it found its way over the railing of Cambridge bridge. , Ard now comes one of the most serious points inthe evidence. Dr. Parkman held a note for $450 against Webster, which had been long over due. On Fnday morning, Dr. Webster cuiled at Dr Parkman’s house in Walnut street, and left word tor Dr. P. to call at the college that day and receive the reoney due him. Webster admits that he came, and states that the note was paid ; but, ust after Parkman’s disappearance, Webster said «bad neither received the note back nor a re- ceipt; that Parkman seized the money, and, with- out stepping to count it, hurried away like a craz man. The next day after Webster was arrested, officers were dispatched to his house in Cambridge, to see if enything suspicious could be found oa his remises. Websier’s private desk was searched, but nothing particular discovered. ‘The next day after, Webster, in jail, called tor pen, ink and paper, and wrote @ letter to one of his daughters, and giving it to one of the offi of the jail, de- sired him to deposit it in the post office. The officer, however, (uceording 10 the regulations of the prison,requiring al! letters to be examined, and of which tect Webster was probably ignoraat,) oponed and reed it. Most of the letter was an at- fectionate and fetherly epistle to his daughter; but concluded with direction to tell her mother to take good care of that package of piper she had given her a few days before; ihe sub- stance of his language was, to keep them se- ereted, by all means. The jail officer immediately informed the police, and Mr Clapp and others started for names again. On arriving at Webd- ster’s house, the ofheers saw Mrs. Webster, and stuted that they wished to procure that package of papers which the Doctor had given to her for sate gS jew days previous. After little trouble, | the off obtained possession, and the papers were exw vd. Amovg them was the note for $450 which Webster said he had peid Parkman on Friday at the college. Another note was also found for $2,400, but it had endorsements enough on the beck to cover the amount. Among other things in the package was a sort of schedule of in- structions, as how te act and what to suy in the event of certain searches and inquiries relating, o} course,to the Parkmangeflair. Here, then, 13 a piece of evidence not easily to be gotten over. Since commencing this article, | have learned, from good authority, that Dr. Parkman was ou the eve of exposing Webster, in relation to some swine dling treneactions of which Webster had been nilty in his business with Dr. P ; such as borrow- jpg money of diferent individuals besides Doctor Parkman, and giving each security by mortgage on the seme property, unknown to each other.— ikman felt very mach icensed at this condact, and had but very recently threatened to expose Webster, besides taking due course of law to reco- ver the money owing him. Dr. Webster had good to believe the intentions of Parkman, and his feurs led him to concoct a horrid seheme for his own safety, The result of his fears and plans mwy be seen in the tragedy that followed. < A few days since, Gov. Lriggs visited the Medi- cul College, and went over the ecene of cer. He examined the premises carefully, he could come to no other conclusion than that gully man. Mr. the Attorney General, says that could he have known euch a black and appalling case of premeditated murder was to come un- der his management, be never would have accept- ed ihe office 5 holds. Dr. Webster's friends ap- phed to the Hon. Daniel Webster to conduct the defenge, and offered him $2,000 to commenee it, but he absolutely refused, and would not touch the money. They then wen Rufus Choate, but with no better success, Mr. ©, even with Tegal acumen and ingenuity, thought Webs de e case; he said he could conceive of ol lefence to be set up, than that Parkman went into Webster's private room, was there seized with aviolent fit of the ague, and shook himself all to pieces—one part of his body going here, and ano- ther there—some parts down the privy, and others mto « furnace, or a box, &c. Its @ fact worthy of attention, that the Grand Jury Were unanimous in finding an indictment tor wil ful murder—a circumstance with grand juries that very rerely oceurs. On Wednesday afternoon last, coroner Pratt and Mr. Andrews visited the college, aod, m inaking a close inspection of the yshes taken from the fur- pace, found reveral small pieces ot skull and two | =n pam additional to t had been previously ound. Allowing tbat Dr. Webster committed the cnme aleged, it semaines only to be seen that his crime orig nated in bia great pecuniary embarrasements, end the vex attendant thereon. His own t habite—his endeavors, un- Tecome, to keep his fal mov- id wealthiest circles—his ex- treme negligence in meeting his creditors, sud his total went of economy—together with the harsh d abusive terms applied to him by Dr. Parkman, his prinepel creditor, whe pressed his demands with the cregtest sever! tepded to work him up to the #t excitement his naturally nervous temperament was capable of ; 10 exasperate and madden him, unul he conceived the borrible idea of murdering, and forever removing from his pre- sence him who was the immediate cause o! t bi , and of whom he had the frost 6 od There: one feet in his history that hitherto 16 unrecorded, and which, al- though not eflecting this particular case, shows a ores of duty and teaice which cannot but be ecnerdered criminal. Dr. Webster's father and and formerly resided in the town of Amesbury, th . The father of Le Dr. is wes Fy aged citizens, and was reputed @ ve on BO It is understood at Amesbury— ae there ean be no doubt of the fact—that, by the will of Dr. Webster's farmer, the eum of filty dol- lare wee to be paid an * a neat relative, One of thore children is now in the rope cA Sad nga woe wee my 4 with 1 i ing the orphans the alluded bes ba bag ont lied ol the require: mente of the will ; end at the present time the sum of $800 is duet rom Dr. Webster to these unfriended individuals. Repeated applications have made to the Doctor to pay this amount, but always witheut success. Tem told that Webster, in his | opimone, is a professed inaterialist—believim only in human exetence, end, at death, annihi- Jetven of the soul. : Lr. Webster's trial will probably take place about the 18th of March. In the meentime, | will endea- vor to keep your readere informed of whatever | new frets in the case may be divulged vaente. | eTTe. ‘THE WITSESSES IN THE CASE. | We fed thi list of witnensen, joned om | the part cf the State, end held under s reorgnizance of ‘Fite cach Jn the Borten papers ot the 26th inet : | (Parkes W Commings Tieckemith, of No.2 North Grove treet Leorard Fuller, tron fennder, North Grove street, | tepdee at No. 26 street Reh Mel Dorebeater Massachusetts. Combridge hrewe, Lr Fronete clergyman, of Boston, brother | “Netlanba Waterman: Hinman, No. a8 coral .H NO BS Ay ‘oppreite Tyler ‘ ‘Aivert Suilere brother ef Leovard Puller atthe West Boston iron Foundry, owned by wile Fuller, smother brother of Leomard Fuller, and pleye t k | princinal characters. ; N46. 7 | Foeiren ‘Tennessee 8 Powell, Phitedelphier’ Wredbridge Lord, residence or ceoupstion not _ § LU ————— TWO CENTS. ajo employed at the iron foundry, which is only two or three hundred feet from the Medical College, ja{iustavus A, Andrews, jailor of the Leverett street jail. Dr. Jefiries Wyman, physician, of Boston. Dr. Henry J. Bigelow, physician, of Bcavon Mre. Caroline M wife of Mr. Littlefield, janitor of Littlefield, edical College Robert G. Shaw, mercbant, No. 51 Commercial wharf, resides In Beacon street, corner of Belknap. G. G. Moore, residessat No, 34 Bridge street, (vici- nity of Medical College.) Nat Keep, dentist, No. 34 Boylston street. Mr. manufacturer of the minerel teeth used by man, cis Tukey, city marshal of Boston. Samuel Parkman Blake, desler in patent leather at No. 7 Central street, resides in Logg ioe Wintion Lewis, Jr., physician, No. $1 Boylston street, Dr. Samuel Parkman, physician, No, 125 Taemont street. Charles B. Starkweather, police officer, City Hall.. je and police offlcer, City pheractua Clapp, constal a Ara O. Bateman, police officer, at the West End. George W. Trenholm, night policeman. Nat)an D. Sawin, expreesman, of Cambridge. Charles M. Kingtley, Custom House, real estate agent of the late Dr, George Parkman, resides fn Blossom street. {Samuel G. Aduins, police oMoer, near ational The- r atre. Jubes Pratt, one of the Coroners of the county ef Suf- folk, who held the inquest upon the human remains found at the North Grove street Medical College. Charles B. Rice, police officer at the West end. nkbown. Edgerley, hardware dealer at No. 3 Union Resides at No, 22 Shawmut street. David ©. Perkins, unknown, Wm. B. Tarlton, police officer. Fdward Hiteboock. medical student, of Amherst. br. Edward Reynolds, Jr, physician, resides at No.29 Winter street. George Hl. Gray, hardware merchant, at No, 57 Milk atreet, resides at Wer mbridge. Lorenzo L, Whitmore medieul student, of Ashburn- m. grocer, corner of Blossom and Vine t No. 31 Myrtle street ick 8, Ainsworth, physician, at No, 11 How- ard street. Beujamin Heath. policeman. Dr James W. Stone, physician, at No. 6 Bowdoin Tyler, twine manufacturer, corner of Dover street ond Harrivos There are about ti “ government, who have net y ocgnize for their sppearancs ¢ more witnesses for the been called upon to re- t court. Bowery Tuxatee.—A new and interesting drama, founded upon the recent struggle for freedom ia Hun- gary, will be produced this evening, with splendid reenery, machinery, military unifort nd properties, by the talented articts attendant on this theatre The v Poss on the Mountains— the Frozen Waste. Cemorn— Destruction of the Fortress—the Warrior's ‘Tomb, and other effective pletures. T! ine will close with the drama of the “ Little Devil ”” y, are the attractive features of the oveut should not be serprised if the Bowery were cramme: from pitto dome Hamblin is unceasing in his exer- tiens to produce every thing novel and interesting, and ocpsequently dererven extensive patronage, Buoanway Tuxarnx —There is, at present, an excel- j¢pt cempany of comedians performing at this elegant establishment, Tho patrons of the legitimate drama in the selection of exorliont ting actor’. This evening, the modern comedy of * London Assurance ” will be produ Dave all that can be desire pieces and entitled the “Spirit of Gol other eminent actors will ew he If we may judge from the ra- week, the success of the legiti- sreciable houses of last ate drama is certain. Benton's Turatse.—The “ Serious Family,” the most successful comedy ever produced mm this city, will com- mence its eighth week of representation to-night. To rpeak of the peculiar merits of thie beautifully drawn is deemed superfluous, as there is scarcely one of ing people of this clty who has not seen It; are to witness its performance ery charac- d to the very ¥ eom of the “Heir at Law. rougbar, Clarks, Miss Chapman. and the rest of the great comic talent of this flourishing and well conducted establishment, appear im both pieces. Cuatnam TreaTne.—This evening the performances * El Bol clore with t r) fine bill for ig, and, no doubt, will attract « large arremb! | Orme T ~The programme of entertain. | ment at this old and celebrated theatre contains four pleces, which@vill be ably rustained by the corps dra matique of Mitehell, The first im order ia © Tw Meni jp which nearly all the artists will appear. = Entertainment, en- | ameralzeman, or Peri 0 Loved the This will be followed by burlesque of | volt of the Poor H Mr. Dlitebell will surtain the eberacter and the whrle will clove with the farce of the Who can resist the temptation of witn cellent pieces, every character in which artiste of grewt dramatic eelebrity? Tratiams Orena.—In consequence of the Firemen's Ball taking place this evening, there will be no per- formance to-night. To morrow, for the bemeft of Sig- por Beneventano, the favorite be Mozart's opera of * Don three acts, with acast never equalled in States. Si; ine Bertucca, Tram, and A ize. at re Pe Le ad and Novelli, Jnctpal mas te The fashionable thestre of the up-town }y will be crsm med in every department, and the talented benefolary will reeeive, no doubt, the reward due, to bis Ineereant eferts to please the opere going Fubiie. Crmiety's Moestarts — This ber the mort ruccess- four @x- ‘ie flea by ed tl we will venture to am | dancing part, : reTt, eabpot be exorlied im any part of the Union. grcat treat for the citizens of Brooklyn. Amenicas Mireum. me and every afternoon ¢, the week, the twin sisters, the dren rev who possers 5 offered to sing ® duett from Norma, eficrta will be crowned with success, Banney Wriwsame, the talented Mesteyer irom the National, commence an ment at N . Mre. Mesteyer is Prove as greate 19 AnD DEPARTURES. Cinetnnath; J.T. Lay, B.A. » Tenneres: Dr. T. G Beet, BE. Stokes. bitindeidnia, 8. B a jeoy, Bow H Wecies. 0 s Fiteburghs 3 Stote Hoteows Mr timed fiy, Mr iicharde, Mrs Tebarde. Liverposl; é Hall and lady, Maes; s we t. Ban —? were among ‘arrivals yesterday at Hurt, E. Bostwick, Michigan; A ipbie; WE, Johnron, Fieevarghi Db wills mbricge, L J. Wells, 32 Peter Fox, North & Dotgbem, Philedelpbie, F Lr Andere, Werbir stow, D i the Howard = | were take | duchy ot act | Rhune. All the westert AFFAIRS IN EUROPE. Our German Correspondence. Additional Extracts from oar Yoreign: Papers. American Affairs on the Other Side of the Atlantic. THE EUROPEAN MARKETS. Ge., Bey Se, The Journal du Havre contains the following interesting paragraph :— The charge d'affaires of France at Bogota, has pre- sented a protest against the rigorous manner in which the French company formed to establish @ rail over the Isthmus of Panama bas been dispossessed. to the profit of the Aspinwall company, of the concession which it bad obtained from the government of New Grarada. He has dem that the projector of the ccmpany shall be indemnified for the preliminary ex- pensrs Which they have incurred, amounting to up- wards of 80.000f, The government of New Granada appears inclined to attend to this demand, Nejotia- tions have been lately entered Into at Quito, the capi- tal of the republic of the Equador, to have important additions made to the commerolal treaty of ‘hat country has for the last three years imported a great number of articles from Paris, The following were the quotations of American securities in London on the 11th inst:— AMERICAN STATE STOCKS. 03 a 9 106 5g 106 4 8 95 mM a 0 oo % 82 a 83 9 a OT 96 oT 00 ao 101 Mans, Five per Cents, Sterling Bonds, 1668, 108348 104 Maryland Five per Cents, Sterling Bonds,. $8 @ 89 Mississippi Six per Cente. + © o 68 “ 19 8 2% Alabama Five per Cent 66 a 6T ef “ 70 = 72 Virginia Five per Cents, sea — Virginia Six per Cente, + Be — Keptueky Six per Cents. »- Ba Ficrida Six per Cents - Ba — New York City Five par c 8a — United States Bank Shares. .... 9s. © 108, It is said that Lord Campbell 1s to take Lord Denman’s place as Chief Justiee of England. The London Sunday Times, of the 30th ult, e are enabled to state thet a considerable it to be sent tothe British possessions rica, but eblefly to Canada. force is im North @ur Berlin Correspondence. Berwin, January 1, 1850. Affairs in Germany in 1819. The year 1849, so fatal to popular hberty m Eu- rope, and so fatal to many thousands whom the revolution has hurried into an untimely grave, has ended amid the shouts with which the approach ot another year, in the usual course of time, is greeted, The recollection of the past twelve months ia fraught with pictures of slaughter and bloodshed, executions and dungeons, and dylag martyrs and heroes; and probably few periods of history, evea in the middle ages, can show more ernel and bar- barous acts, conunitted within the space of one brief year. War, the most sanguinary and cruel, since carried on not between diflerent nations, but be- tween kindred races and people, has torn the vitals of Europe; Austria and Germany, the countries of the Danube, of the Elbe, of the Maine, and the Rhine, have been the scenes of war, aad of a mortal struggle between the trends and foes of liberty. Hungary and Western Germany are still bleeding trom the wounds received in that con hict, and which will not hea! for many years to come. Lahde oy ed the interior of Europe, calamity has visited thousands of families and individuals, while the hopes of millions have been crushed. Hungat succumbed after a di aad allant struggle, carried on singlehanded egalas: te united forces ot the two empires of Austria and Russia. She bas succumbed after in vain havin avked for assistance from every civilized nation m9 the earth, but received merely the hollow assuraace ot sympathy; while Europe, and the cause of hu- manity mi; ve been saved, if but ene natu hed given ample, that the enlightened peop of the nineteenth century im every part of t world, wiil not sufler a war of oppression to go o in opposition to every principle of right. With thi fall ol 1y, absolutism has beeo re-established everyw ughout Europe. Ia France the counter-revolution had already previously become | @ fait accomplr, but has since made rapid pro- grees. In italy, Rome, Venice, and Lombardy, have been restored to absolute goverament; while Sicily 1s subdued, and has again been made a province of Naples, under the tyran- nical government ot the Bourbon king. ‘Ger- mony, during the past year, presented ne of distraction end confusion which even des roe hos not yet been able to reduce to anyth | lke order and eystem. The constitution, wie National Assem- was completed leet spring by th bly at Frankfort, wes to unite the German States in one empire, acd to create the King of Prussia Emperor of Germany. The dazzling bait of an imperial diadem was held out to Frederick Wil- lium to induce him to accept that constitution, aad pledge himeeli to maintain the nights and liverties cuaranteed by the same. He reyected the brilliant offer, and with it the constitution, which was thortly alter generally repudiated by the German cabinets. Public irritation m many of the States— cn the rejection of the constitution setiled by the National Assembly, whieh had been daly elected by the people, and recognised by the govern- mente—broke out im open rebellion. Almost si< multancously, the peeple rose in Saxony, Bavaria, and Baden, while they were 6 to ree pearly every State of Germany. For an instant, seemed as if the German nation were determine: to defend the liberties already sealed by the bi of the revolution, and to carry into eflect the con- stitution established as the law of bem Fad the National Assembly. The insurrection in Saxow: however, was quelled by means of a Prussian tervention in that State. The cabinet of Dresd: i military, The barrie after severe! mastered throughout Sar and martial law awy The ae promaimed in s -- revolution, measwhile, wwany, had nlready take The Baden troops had gone over en mone 4 Ye the Bavarian troops had . e OF companies, were formed tiroagho ut x ¢ solved to maintain the vention in Germany was undertaken on & still larger seale than the first. The Prossian Landwehr was called out; and an army, ander the comma: of the Prince ot Prussia, sent against the re! States. The ery. was opened; but the supe- rior discipline of the Prossion troops, and, above all, the aversion of the German to go to extreme measures as long as there exists a glimpse of that matters cat settled soe showed that the eause of the ts was a lost one, One city after the other fell into the hande of the Prossien troops. Wherever the insargents offered resistanee, they were driven back; and, while the commend of insurrectionary jorces bed been entrusted to a Polish general, aad none of the leaders were able to inapire cou! or teepeet, the people sredeslly ebandosed a cause which had be come Seaperas and hopeless. The inet part of the campa' had almost ome, « farer, whieh ended eeuth the surrender of Raestedt, the last es or city it pos- sersion of the insurgents. The National Aecembly, after having travelled from city to city like a troupe of strolling actors, cl the protection of the ‘as ob) to Soooe teal ane eae the year 1849. The tray too Sek to dwell wee. who encaped the sentence of death, were condemned to imprison- ment; while proseewtions were against ali, Who bad in the pene are taken parti the meurrectron. Most of t pending still, while the or are lodged in prison. It jsestimated, one of Germavy alone, Saxony, the namber of per. cons involved in the revolutionary movements of Jost summer, against whom prosecutions are op, is eight thousand: while the dungeons ere Stace are filled with political prisoners, rea has thus bern brought on thousands of families, Civilvation turns with horror from the sceaes of bicod+ehed and systematic butehery, such ae have taken place in Hungary and Germany; but