Report of the case of John W. Webster, indicted for the murder of George Parkman, before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts : including the hearing on the petition for a writ of error, the prisoner's confessional statements and application for a commutation of sentence, and an appendix containing several interesting matters never before published / by George Bemis.

  • Webster, John White, 1793-1850.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Report of the case of John W. Webster, indicted for the murder of George Parkman, before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts : including the hearing on the petition for a writ of error, the prisoner's confessional statements and application for a commutation of sentence, and an appendix containing several interesting matters never before published / by George Bemis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    upon it, at the time it was made. They were kept in my cellar, where I had put them away. I keep my moulds, mainly, to provide against any accident which may happen to the set of teeth, made from them. I had before fitted parts of a set of teeth for Dr. Parkman ; — a block for this left lower jaw, where the absorption is shown. This absorption occurred while he wore that block. This was before he went to Europe. I took a cast of his jaw, at that time. I first heard of Dr. Parkman's disappearance, Saturday night, November 24th, before going into the country. I read the advertisement in the newspaper. Direct, again. — Dr. Parkman wore no single mineral- teeth. The natural teeth, which he had remaining, were one tooth, and two roots, on the left side, and three teeth and one root upon the right side, in the following order : — beginning from behind, on the left side, two roots, then a tooth, (the eye-tooth,) then a vacancy; then, upon the other side, three teeth in succession, then a root, or stump. The teeth remaining, upon the right side, are one front tooth, the eye-tooth, the first bi-cuspid, and the root of the second bi- cuspid. Two roots of natural teeth were exhibited to me, said to have been found among the ashes. One of them, at the time of the examination before the grand jury, was still ad- hering to the largest block. [Witness identifies it, now sep- arated from the block.] There was a third block, adhering to the two now connected together, united with them, by means of slag, or some other matter, when the teeth were first shown to me. It has since been broken apart. [It was stated by Mr. Clifford, and acceded to by Mr. So- hier, that this separation had taken place, when Mr. Sohier, in company with the counsel for the Government, was ex- amining the teeth at the City Marshal's office, previous to the trial.] Lester Noble, sworn, — examined by Mr. Beinis. I was an assistant of Dr. Keep's, in 1846. I entered his office the 11th or 12th of September, of that year, and remained with him till the middle of July, 1849. I am now a student of dentistry, in the Baltimore College of Dentists. I recollect working upon a set of mineral teeth for Dr. Parkman, in the autumn of 1846. The superscription upon the plaster-mould, shown me, Dr. Parkman, Oct., 1846, — (the mould No. 2, produced by Dr. Keep,) is in my hand- writing. I remember writing it.