e he was roused shortly before eleven, to be
taken to the college. He was quite incapable of walking, and had to be
supported by two of the officers. He was present there while his rooms
were searched; but his state was painful in the extreme. He asked for
water, but trembled so convulsively that he could only snap at the
tumbler like a dog; his limbs were rigid; tears and sweat poured down
his cheeks. On the way back to the jail, one of the officers, moved
by his condition, expressed his pity for him. "Do you pity me? Are you
sorry for me? What for?" asked Webster. "To see you so excited," replied
the officer. "Oh! that's it," said the Professor.

The whole night through the prisoner lay without moving, and not until
the following afternoon were his limbs relaxed sufficiently to allow of
his sitting up. As his condition improved, he grew more confident. "That
is no more Dr. Parkman's body," he said, "than mine. How in the world
it came there I don't know," and he added: "I never liked the looks of
Littlefield the janitor; I opposed his coming there all I could."

In the meantime a further examination of the Professor's rooms on
Saturday had resulted in the discovery, in a tea-chest in the lower
laboratory, of a thorax, the left thigh of a leg, and a hunting knife
embedded in tan and covered over with minerals; some portions of bone
and teeth were found mixed with the slag and cinders of one of the
furnaces; also some fish-hooks and a quantity of twine, the latter
identical with a piece of twine that had been tied round the thigh found
in the chest.

Two days later the Professor furnished unwittingly some additional
evidence against himself. On the Monday evening after his arrest he
wrote from prison to one of his daughters the following letter:

"MY DEAREST MARIANNE,--I wrote Mama yesterday; I had a good sleep last
night, and dreamt of you all. I got my clothes off, for the first time,
and awoke in the morning quite hungry. It was a long time before my
first breakfast from Parker's came; and it was relished, I can assure
you. At one o'clock I was notified that I must appear at the court room.
All was arranged with great regard to my comfort, and went off better
than I had anticipated.

"On my return I had a bit of turkey and rice from Parker's. They send
much more than I can eat, and I have directed the steward to distribute
the surplus to any poor ones here.

"If you will send me a small canister of tea, I can