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JOAN RILL alias NIXON CURRY;
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A TEIIE BHETCII OF LIFE IN ARKANSAS.
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"Among the truest friends of the peo
bee, of all in the present Convention, may
named John Hill, of St. Francis. His
energy, eloquence, and courage, fully en
title him to the proud place he holds, and
as we trust, will retain—that of the leader
of the Arkansas Democracy."—Little
Pock Gazette, in the days of the Conven
tion.
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"BLOODY AFFRAY.---A desperate ren
contre occurred last week in St. Francis.
Two distinguished citizens were killed,
and three others dangerously wounded.—
The difficulty resulted from an attempt to
arrest John Hill., a member of the last leg
islature, & formerly of the State Conven
tion, who, it is alleged, is the-notorious
robber, Nixon Curry, that committed such
atrocities."—Little Rock Gazette of 1839.
We have given the preVious extracts
from the oldest and most respectable jour
nal of Arkansas, in order to satisfy every
reader that the following narrative, extra
ordinary as some of its incidents may ap
pear, is no tissue of fiction. Indeed while
relating genuine events, and painting true
scenes, we have been especially careful to
avoid all vivid colors. Should this short
sketch, by any chance reach the forests of'
Arkansas, the people there will deem its
description tame in comparison with the
deeds of the man. The writer, who has
resided long on the frontier, has no use for
fancy in portraying its exciting life. Sim
ple memory will serve him well.
• About fifty years ago there lived in Ire
dell county, North Carolina, a Presbyte- 1
rian preacher, by the name of Corry.—
He was a man in easy circumstances, of
irreproachable character, and having a
large family of promising sons and daugh
ters. Among these, the favorite was Nix
on,
distinguished when a.boy for hie fear
leas courage and the tenderness of his'
heart alike. He seems, from several an-1
ecdotes of his early days, to have been a
child of impulse and intense earnestness
and passion. When only six years ot'•
ago he had a combat at school with a bul
ly of the playground, nearly twice his own
weight, and alter suffering dreadfully, at
last achieved the victory, due almost to
the sheer power of his endurance.
From the time he was six years old,
that is to say, from the first session he at
tended in •tho country sehobl hatise f .had
Nixon Curry been in love. His idol was
a little girl of the same age, and under the
tuition of the same master. The attach-t
meat appears to have been mutual from
the commencement. They stood up in
one class, and always managed to stand
together, during the hours of recess when ,
the other juveniles were amusing them-1
selves with boisterous sports, the preco
cious lovers would wander amidst leafy'
groves,
or by the mossy margins of silver!
rills. For ever to eternity, and y.l.enev-;
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brings i il,c bright
scattering thick-starred dreams and divine
visions of beauty over all things. Even
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cious identity of fancy end of feeling.—
Their bias for each other's society, while
children, caused no particular remark.—
Such attachments are common between
tho youth of opposite sexes in the country,
and, as usual, terminate abruptly, on ar
rival at mature years. Far different,how
ever, was the case with Nixon Curry and
Lucy Gordon. Their passion became so
evident at fifteen, that all farther inter.
course was forbidden by her parents—a
mong the wealthiest aristocracy of Caro
lina. Then followed stolen meetings by
star-light, firmer vows and wilder love,
which always increases in proportion to
its crotses, and like the tree of Lebanon,
sends down its deepest roots into the heart,
the more it is shaken by storms.
Finally, at seventeen, when Lucy's rel
atives were endeavoring to force her into,
the arms of another, she lied with the lov
sir of her childhood. They were pursu
ed—overtaken; and Nixon Curry shot his
rival and ono of the proud Gordon's dead
On the spot and found an asylum in the!
Allegheny Mountains, near the sources of.
the Catawba. Here, under the plea of ne
tessity, ho embraced the profession of a
robber,• and rendered his name famous by
the number and astonishing boldness of
his exploits. We may record it, not as a
Matter of merit, perhaps, but for the sake
of historical truth—that the youthful ban-1
dit never was known to perpetrate murder,
for the purpose of plunder, though he did,
several to avoid arrest.' At length the ru
mor of his ' felonies ceased suddenly, and
notwithstanding a reward of five thousand
dollars was oared, for. his apprehension'
by the Governor ofthe State, he was heard
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continued, to be his character, in the new
country of his adoption, for twelve succes
sive years. During all that, period ho
never had a personal difficulty or quarrel
with any human being; and yet, every
body was satisfied that such a peaceful lite
—singular for that latitude, was not owing
to a want of courage, or. deficiency in
power to perform good services, in any
sort of battle-field; for of all bear hunters
that ever pierced the jungle4of Cabe in
"the great swamp." or descended by torch
; light into the dark caves of the Ozark
Mountains, he was celebrated as the most
fearless.
He was repeatedly elected to the Ter
ritorial Legislature, where he distinguish
ed himself by a strong, impaAioned elo
quence, as a chief leader in the Democrat
ic ranks. He was next,.as we have al
ready seen, a member of the Convention
that formed the State constitution; and
was elected again the ensuing year to re
present his county in the Senate of Ar
kansas.
At this period commenced his second
series of misfortunes. Hill's nearest neigh
bors were the Strongs—four brothers of
considerable 'wealth, more ambition; and
if We may borrow the plirnge of the coun
try, "famous fighters." Notwithstanding
their character so dissimilar from that of
the pacific "bear hunter," a close and cor
dial intimacy grew up between them; and
Hill, in an unguarded moment, made the
eldest brother, George, a confidant as to
the secrets of his previous history. It hap
pened that this same George conceived a
violent desire for political distinction, and
requested Hill to resign his seat in the
Senate in the illiberal friend's favor. Hill
refused and the Strongs conspired for a
terrible revenge. Writing back to Caro
lina, they procured a copy of the reward
offered for the arrest of Nixon Curry, the
far-famed robber; and then collecting a
party of a dozen desperate men, they at
tempted
to capture Hill in his own house.
The latter had always gone armed with
his enormous double-barrel shot gun, two
long rifle pistols, and a knife so heavy that
few other hands besides his own could'
wield it. The assaultof the Strongs prov
ed horrible to themselves. Hill killed two
of the brothers, and dangerously wounded .
live of their friends, escaping unhurt him-'
self, although more than twenty rounds of,
ball and buck-shot were aimed at his breast.
The excitement resulting from the af
fair was boundless. A requisition came
on from the executive of Carolina, de
manding the surrender of Nixon Curry.
The governor of Arkansas published an
additional reward for the arrest of John
Jul. and thus betwixt the two fires, the vic
tim's chance seemed perfectly hopeless.
Hill's conduct in the crisis was prompt
and fearless as ever. Packing up hastily,
he set out with his wife and children, in a
I common moving wagon, for Upper Arkan
: sas, where he knew of a band of despera
does that he believed would_ protect him.
' He was overhauled at Con% ay Court
House by two hundred men in pursuit, all
thoroughly armed, and some of them re'-.
nowned "lighters." Hill saw their ap
proach on the distant prairie, and with his
dreadful double-barrel—that sure death
dealer to either man or beast, within the
range of two hundred yards—instantly
marched to meet his foes. This incredi
ble bravery, joined to the fear before inspi
red by his desperation, affected the advan
cing troops with such unaccountable panic
that the whole two hundred sought salety
in a disgracefully rapid flight.
Several other attempts were made to
capture the dangerous outlaw, all alike
ending either in ludicrous or bloody fail
ures. In the meantime Hill's character
and conduct underwent a complete change.
Forced to be always on the lookout, and
therefore unable to follow any study busi
ness in order to support his family, he re
sorted to the Gaming-table. He learned
also to indulge in the fiery stimulus of ar
dent drink, and his disposition, necessarily
soured by recent events, became quarrel
some in the extreme; perhaps there never
was a man, excepting only that Napoleon
of duellists, James Bowie, who was so hear
tily dreaded. I have mysell'seen persons
of undoubted courage turn pale merely at
the appearanc &Bill's gigantic form, broad
ly belted and bristling with pistols. He
was waylaid and shot at a number of
times, yet still escaped without a scar.—
But this could be considered no wonder,
for even . brave men's hands shook when
they saw him, and shaking hands general
ly make very poOr shots.
During the September term, 1843, of
the Circuit Court for Pope county, in which
Hill resided, he got out of bed one morn-!
ing uncommonly gloomy, and while at the
breakfast table, suddenly burst into tears. !
"What's the matter, my dear?" asked
Lucy—that beautiful Lucy, who had for
merly left her wealthy home in Carolina
for the robber and the robber's cave.
"I have had a ,dreadful dream," answer.
ed . the husband, shuddering at the recol
kstiet);. " I saw George Strong in' my
sleepond he kissed me with his pale lips,
that burned like fire nnd smelled of sul
pho. lam sure Ishall die before sunset."
"Then do not go to court, to-day," said
the wife, in accents Olearnest entreaty.
"But I will," replied the husband'firm.
ly. "When a man's time is come, he can
, not, he' cannot hide' from death ; beside, it
would' be the act of a coward . to do so, if
one possess the power." Then addresS
' log his son, a fine intelligent' boy of alit : .
teen, he continued, " Bill, , you' see my
gun," pointing his finger, as 'he spoke to
the great double barrel' hanging on buck
horns over the door; ."practice with that
every morning, and the day you are six
tetn, shoot the boa& of
. both barrels into
theman who will thigday kill your father."
"Yonder comes Moses Howard; he will
protect you Pa," remarked Mnry, Hill's
eldest daughter, a lovely girl of fifteen,
who was to be married the next day to
the youth then approaching: •
Hill and Howard departed; Lucy with
tears, and Mary blushing, both calling out
as they left the gate, "Take good care of
him, Mose, and be sure and bring him
back to-night."
" Never fear," answered the youth, with
a laugh ; " Hill will never die till I kill
him."
"Then he will live forever," retorted
Mary, laughing also.
As soon as the friends reached the vil
lage Hill begun to drink deeply, & mani
fested more than ordinary anxiety for a
combat, insulting everybody that crossed
his path; and all the youth's entreaties
failed to pacify him. At last, the despe
rado swore that he would clear the court
house ; and immediately entering
furious countenance, and a threat as to his
purpose—judge, lawyers, jury and specta
tors made a general rush for the door.—
One old drunken man alone did not run as
fast as Hill wished, and he sprang on the
imbecile wretch and commenced beating
him unmercifully.
Howard then caught hold of his future
' father-in-law, (alas! ho was never to
be!) and attempted to pull him away.
With eyes red, and glaring like a mad
dog, Will instantly turned upon his friend,
and with a single blow of his fist felled
him to the floor, then following up the vio
lent act, he leaped on the youth, and be
gan a most ferocious battery. In vain
Howard endeavored to escape, crying out
in tones of beseeching horror, "For God's
sake, cease! Hill, don't you know me ?
Your friend Mose! Remember Mary!"
Hill's anger only increased, till finally, he
threw his hand to his belt, and clutched a
pistol. And then Howard's blood also
boiled, and he resolved to fight for hislife.
lle was of as powerful frame as the other
—the only person in all Arkansas to be
compared with the desperado in physical
strength.
Howard grasped the barrel of the pistol
as Hill cocked it, and the weapon explo
ded in their hands without injury. Once
more they clenched, and the most dread
ful struggle ensued ever witnessed in the
west. The' advantage shifted from one
side to the other for the space of five min
utes, till both were bathed in streams of
their own blood. Even the bystanders,
looked on through the windows of the low
court house, with wonder and awe. At
length, while writhing and twisting like
two raging serpents, the handle of I lilt's
huge bowie knife, unthought of previous
ly, protruded from beneath his hunting,
shirt. 93oth saw it at the same time, and
both attempted to grasp it. Howard suc
ceeded; quick as lightning he drew the
keen blade from its scabbard, and sheath.
ed it up to the hilt in the bosom of his
friend and his Mary's lather.
"The dream is fulfilled," exclaimed
Hill, with a smile of strange sweetness,
that retrained on his features even after
he was a corpse. He then sank down, &
expired without a groan.
Howard gazed on him there as he lay,
with that singular smile on his lace, and
his glazed eyes open. And then, awak
ing with a start, as if from some horrible
vision of the night, the poor, unhappy
youth, fell headlong on the body of his
friend, crying in tones.that melted many
a hardened spectator into tears, " Great
God ! what have I done." Ile kissed the
clammy lips of the dead; wet his cheeks
with a rain of unavailing sorrow; essayed
to staunch the bloody wound with his
handkerchief; and then, apparently satis
fied that all was over, sprang upon his
feet, with a shout, or more properly a
scream—" Farewell, Mary, your ;tither is
gone, and I'm going with him;" arid turn
ing the point of the gory knife towards his
own breast, would have plunged it into his
own heart, had he not been prevented by
the bystanders, who now crowded into the
room.
The same evening Mose Howard dis
appeared, and was heard of no more for
nearly two years, when a horse-trader
brought back Word that he had seen him
in San Antonio, Texas. _
W hen the shocking news reached Hill's
family, the beautiful Mary burst into a
wild laugh. She is now in the Asylum
for the lame, at New Orleans.
Had we been inditing a tale of romance,
we would have paused with the preceding
page; but little truth compels us to record
another fact equally characteristic, both
as to the chief : actors and the backwoods
theatre of the main.tragedy.
It will be remembered; that the fallen
desperado had enjoined it on his son to
slay the slayer of his father on the day he
Clearfield, Pa., December 14, 1849.
/ THE BOSTON TRAGEDY.
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Additi6 . al Particulars and Disclosures
in relation. to:the Disopprarance of Dr.
Parkrnam -
'l'le Bo 'ten ropers of' Monday are file I
with the detals of th- My- sti:iation i to the
eircemstane s attending the suppcsA
murder of Dr. Gecrge Parkman, and
whi Ii have led to the arrest of Pro essor
Webster of Harvard Universit••. It ap
pears that in the early part of the month
of November, Dr. Parkman called at Pro
fessor NVebster's lecture room, in the Med
ical College in North Grove street, while
the Professor was engaged in delivering a
lecture before the students, and waited un
til the lecture vi as over, and the stud nts
had all -left. He then asked Professor
Webster for the money due him, and after
some conversati n, in which both parties
were considerably excited, Professor Web
ster it-sired him to wait until the 23d of
November, as all the tickets for the lec
tures, engaged by the students, had not
been paid for, but would in all probability
be by that time. I)r. Par; man, it is sta
ted, left the building a good deal excited.
On Thursday afternoon, November 22d,
Dr. Parkman called at the residence of
Professor Webster, in Cambridge, who be
ing absent, he left word with his wife, that
he wi lied to have her husband call at his
(Dr. Parkman's) hous • the next morning.
On Friday morning, Nov. 23d, the day
after, about 9 o'clock, Professor Webster
called at I)r. Parkman's house in Walnut
street, the I)r. being out, he left word frr
him that he could pay him, if he would
call at his room at tl e College soon after
one o'clock. I)r. Parkman, Professor
' Webster states, called at the Medical Col
lege about half-past one o'clock, and was
paid by him 8483 (34, which amount was
to take up two notes and cancel a mon
! gage. Dr. Park man wive up the notes,
but had not the mortgage with him. Ile,
however, said he would go and cancel it.
This transaction, Dr. Webster says, took
(that the counter in his lecture room,
andt Dr. Parkman left the room thro'
the door near the main entrance to the'
building.
Since half -past I o'clock on Friday the.
23d, the time he was seen by a number of ,
people to enter the College, nothing of a
reliable nature has come to light as to his
i whereabouts. Ile was seen to enter the
College, but no one has been found who
saw him corni! out of out ; and this fact
produced an impression in the minds of a
number—more strongly in that of Mr.
Kingsley, Dr Parkman's agent—that he
never ii.,l come out of it.
The College is built upon walls which
! rest upon piles, and the tide ebbs and flows
through apertures underneath the basement
floor, between the compartment formed by
,I
the walls. One of these compartments
forms what is termed the vault underneath 1
Prof. Webster's laboratory. There is a
imp door to the compartment next to that
used by Prof. Webster, situated some for
ty feet from the water cloSet. Littlefield
descended through this trap-door on Fri
day, with a crow-bar, and knocked an ap
erture in the wall near the wat.ir closet,
and discovered, about 4 o'clock that after-'
noon, portions of a human body, wh ch
had been washed by the sea. These por
tions were the pelvis, the right thigh and
leg. Littlefield immediately proceeded to
Dr. Bigelow's office, and acquainted him
with the fact, as we understand, in the '
most excited 'manner, saying, "I have
have found it !" and repeating these words
so often that Dr. Bigelow took hold . Of him 1
and told• him to be quiet—that ho acted
like a crazy man.
' - Dr. Bigelow went to the City Marshal's
office- that afternoon, and informed Mr.
Tukey :of the discovery which had been
made, who immediately, with some officers,
1 proceeded to the college and found it was
so, - Mr, - Tukey then gave directions for
the arrest of Professor Webster, and.Ofn
cers Clapp, Starkweatluir and Spurr, pro
ceeded tOlis residence in Cambridge in a
carriage for that purpose. They arrived
at the house about 9 o'clock, just' us Prof.
Webster wits shoWing a visitor put,, The
offiCeramet him at the gatei and told'him
that the college officers were met in con.
'should .arrive at sixteen. Without any
charge, vengeance would have been con
sidered 4. that boy as a sacred duty; for
on:tholtontiers, the widows of the slain
teach 'vengeance to their children and oc
casionally execute it themselves!
Accordingly, Bill Hill practised with his
father's gun every day for two successive
years, and this even before he had any
rumor as to the place of Howard's refuge.
He then learned that his foe was in Texas,
and two months before he was sixteen Ito
set out to hunt him up.
At the end of four months Bill Hill came
back, and hanging up the double-barrel in
its old buck horn rack, answered his moth
er's enquiring look,—"Mother, Mose is
dead; I let him have both loabs. Though
I.cried before I done it, and afterwards
too; he looked so miserable, pale and bony
as a skeleton."
"Poor Mose!" said the mother weep
ing; "but it could not be helped. The son
of such a brave man as Nixon Curry must
never be called a coward, and besides it
was yr ,father's orders."
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saltation, on the subject of Dr. Parkmates
disappearance, and had sent for hink to at
tend it. He made no objection, aliCtvhile
on' the way to Boston he conversOcheer
(ldly and freely, nnd, referring to Di. Park
man's having been at the college; and that
i house
he stopped at the doctor's on Fri-
Il day day morning, and requested hiiii'to cull at
the college tbr his money between 1 and
2 o'clock. that day. The carriage was
halted at the jail, and the party went into
the office, and then, for the first time, Dr.
Webster began to perceive that there was
something strange in the proceedings of
the officers, and asked what they had
j come to the jail for, when their destina l -.
tion was the college in Grove street, re
I marking also, that they had come out of
the way. Clapp then said—" Dr. Web
ster, it is' no use to disguise our purpose;
any further. You are under arrest, on':
suspicion that you know something aboAl
the death of Dr. Parkman, parts of whorl"'
body have been found under your laboriul
tory. We shall look no more for the bcii;
dy." Upon hearing this acct cation, Dr.
Webster staggered backwards, as if struck
to the heart, and uttered various exclama
tions about his family and children, -and
also saying —"The villian! I rim ruined!:
or "The villain! He has ruined me:"..-:-
All who were present agree that he did riot
say he was "betrayed." One of the otri
cers thinks, from some broken sentences
that he caught, that the prisoner said,some
thing about some one having placc4: the
limbs where they were found, for the'tour
pose of obtaining the reward, and .that the
discovery of them there would involve the
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prisoners ruin. .
.
his excitement was intense, and he ex
hibited symptoms of convulsions. Water
was handed to him, but he could not reail;
it to his mouth, nor could he get any dovrn
when the glass was held to his lips.—
When asked if he was willing to go to the
medical buildings with them and see what
they had found there, he expressed his
perfect willingness to do so; hut he was
so weak and overpowered with his emo
tions, that he was unable to get up and
walk, and had to be taken to the carriage
by the officers of the jail. From the jail
he was carried to the medical buildings.
Arrived there, and in his own room, the
portions of the body that had been discov
ered were shown to him. On seeing them
he instantly went into the most violent
convulsions, and cried for water. Water
%%as handed him, and at the first sight of
it, he repulsed those who offered it with as
much violence as would a person writhing
in the deepest agonies of hydrophobia.—
He seemed to be in a perfect tempest of
internal torture. The sight of the water
crazed him ! He appeared wild, ghastly,
filled with fear! Ile fairly writhed with
torment! The scene was truely a terrific
one to those who were compelled to behold
it, and probably will never pass out of
their memory. It was already eleven o'.-
clock at night, & a supposed murderer had;
grown frantic on their shoving him the;
mutilated corpse of his unhappy victim!
It was a sight to curdle the coldest blood,
and fill the stoutest man with terror'
Tragedies, with scenes like this in them,
are often played, but rarely enacted!
In this state of convulsion and frenzy
he continued for some time, and nothing
could be drawn from him. He was car
ried back by the officers to the jail, and
there confined.
After he had returned to jail the prison
er became somewhat morecalm. He sta
ted that no one had access to his appall
mcnts in the college but himself, and
could not have such access but with the
keys of those apartments in his pussses
sion, but also the key, a large one, of the
water closet, under which the remains
were found. This closet was within the
laboratory, and not accessable from with
out that apartment; and the door was lock
ed when the limbs were found below.
aturday morning brought with it still
farther di: c3veries. Officer Rice, in ar
ranging things in the laboratory' found ,in
a recess formed by the brick work of the
furnace and chimney, a tea chest, appar
ently filled with specimens of minerals,
Lot emitting a strange odur. lie at once
upset the chest, and found embedded in
the bottom, embeded in hemlock bark, the
left thigh and half roasted trunk of his bo
dy. The skin had been wholly burned or
stripped off from the trunk. The thigh
was only stained with the bark. All the
parts found are such in size that they
may very well have belonged to Dr. P.'s
body. . The missing portions, and Suppos
ed to have been burt.t up, lira the head,
contents.of the body, lett leg and foot,
arms and hands, and right foot.
' Among the secondary facts, it may be
stated that four bloody towels were found
in the vault; a very large clasp knifb, with
hunting figures on the blade, was found
with the trunk in thd' , tea chest; some
grapples, made of cod hooks, with lines
and lead sinkers attached, were found in
Dr. Webster's apparatus. room. This
room is in the rear .of the lecture room,
and connected with it by a ,door. On: the
inner side of the timieratus room is a large
closet. 'Near the door of this
.elotiet.-
the 'floor, commence. scAtteiOtr"'n of' '
blood, which `extend
the apparatus room s ap-"'
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1 a?phai• 25, zixa. islii,',l'lllsoiliokl: *Usk
1 do'• ..dcr do 31 . 1 fitf
Rag ilebOsetifilt itoperhow,
1 do' enemas • -
/• do 6 . Mordhs f . t
1. do ;st wumpla • 420
•do 2 month/ a 131 Y
2 do 6 motthi • - B' W ,
2do 12 months 10 00
9do 3 months . 6 Op.
BJo G months' ' 9 00'
3 do 12 snOntht 12 00
•do or hail asoturin. Ti months 12 00
5 do or half a column. 3 months 20 00
10 4 or one eotum'n: 0 months 90 00
10 do. oWa.do.Zurisn, 12 months 80 00
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Booki Jabs and Blanks
Of every description, prints:re Ili the very best
and mk_the shortest nodal. at a. CO upi TR y
every step of the stairs leading from tte
room down into tho laboratory. Web.
ster's official duties as a professor requit
ed of him no handling of bodies, nor was
it allowable to have subjects in, that part of
tho building. On Sunday, a. pair ,c,lf,trou
sers, marked with Dr. Webster'4:l; risme
and with marks of blood upon thenhmer)
found in the large closet; also, ,under a
settee in the room, a pair of shppetrh mar
ked with spots of blood ; also a amall saw,
with a blood stain. . _
Pn
. Saturday Mkt:pm?, Col, Pratt, COT
otter, summoned,a,jury of inquest, and at
O'clock they proceeded to the college, ex.
amined the remains . as they were . laid out
on a board, and the contents of the furnace
and• then; passed" them into the hands of
Drs. Winslow Lewis, Martin Gay, and J.
B. S. Thatcher, for such further ektunl
:,natioil us can be made of.iheiii.
I -Tho. doctors mentioned -entered' upon
the investigation', on SUntl4 - i slitnillound
Vragments of caleiiied bones. from eacli of
the missin g ; parls-Ortliebody;.: :There.wax
something like the appoaranc,e. of
. a .3vi
stab on the lefrside . of-the but
•.was not made ;Absolutely cleat Cher-the
incision was made before or after death.
It is said that Parkman, and
ster were' classmates* in college:, ; ; 4 ror a
quarter of ti_centtity rrior&Pr. Webster
has occupied a distinguished position in the
scientific world, ailitOre,*or cheraistry
and minerology in Harvard University, of
which the Medical College in Bostoo' is a
I branch.' Dr. Parkman was 64;:irin '1104 ;
ciate editor of the 211dwal - Ja:topal, pub•
fished by WellSk . - 'At the satn ! _i
time;•Dr. Webater . .wite . an associate edit();
of a general scientific journal, publish:jl
.
by Hilliard, Gray. Si Co.
Dr. Parkman was very wealthy, and
been for many years largely engaged in
real estate transactions, and in loaning
money on mortgages. He occupied
high position, and by marriage is connec
ted with the first families of Boston. He
is brother to the Rev. Francis Parkman.—
One of his sisters married the late Ed.
ward Tuekerman, Esq., and another his
brother Joseph Tuckerman,thedistinguish•
ed divine ; a third sister is a wife of Rob
ert Shaw, Esq., the eminent merchant.—
Doctor Park man lost his wife several years
since He has two children—a son and
daughter, and has left a large circle of
highly respectable relatives and friends to
mourn his meloncholy death.. - Dr. Web
ster has been more successful inacquiring
fanw, as a scientific man than in making
money, and was in debt to Dr. Parkrnan-
Out of this relation sprung disptites be
tween them.
Sonic of Dr. Parkman's friends. asssu
ming that Dr. Webster had killed Dr. P.
suppose that an angry altercation occur
red at the interview on Friday, and that
Dr. Parkman, who occasionally used ve
ry blunt language, said something which
so exasperated Dr. 'Webster, that the lat
ter suddenly dealt him a mortal blow with
some implement at hand, and then, to con
ceal the rash and fetal deed, resorted to
the means for disposing of the body which
have been described above.
Dr. Webster has been, for upwards of
twenty years, Professor of Chemistry at
' Cambridge. He has a wide circle of ac
quaintance, and has maintained through
out life an unblemished reputation. He
is about 56 years of age, and has . a wife
a
; and four children. He has paid strict
attention to the duties of his profession,
and his conduct has been marked by tun
form sobriety and steadiness. His dis
' position was frank and open, his manners
lively and social he was esteemed by all
I who knew him as a good citizen, and a
I peaceable neighbor, and a kind and sac
t onate husband end father. In every
moral and intelectual characteristic, ha
I might be regarded as one who was pla
i ced beyond the suspicion of a tendency to
the commission of crime.
The excitement created on Saturday
morning did not last over night. The
disclosures at the College formed the gen.
eral subject of conversation yesterday, but
there was not at any time—to outlinOwl
edge —either on Saturday, or yesterday,
any indication of riot displayed. The lar-
gest collection of people at the College, at
any one time, did not exceed NO persons,
and many of the visitors. were moat re
spectable citizens. The Military received
orders at an es r:y hou'e on Saturday, to be
in readinetts, in their armories. This or
der was not confined to the' Boston com
panies alone. Two companies of .Infant
ry at Roxbury, received a' similar - order ?
and were "up in arms"' all Sctinrday.
night. , .
We heard from Leverett street jail last
evening. Dr. Webster had become more
calm, but still manifested some , excite"-
ment. Ho slept sound during' .Saturday
night. An Officer in Ka, cell coustant.,
ly. .
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