Awful disclosures and startling developments in relation to the late Parkman tragedy : with a full account of the discovery of the remains of the late DrGeorge Parkman and the subsequent arrest of Professor John WWebster . hat the discovered remains have been injectedwith arsenic acid, or chloride of zinc, a newfeature will arise in the case which will pro-duce still greater surprise than any yet mani-fested. As the burnt copper cups, which weresupposed to have been the remains of DoctorParkmans coat buttons, have turned out to beinstruments for chemical purposes ; the silverand other metals v
Awful disclosures and startling developments in relation to the late Parkman tragedy : with a full account of the discovery of the remains of the late DrGeorge Parkman and the subsequent arrest of Professor John WWebster . hat the discovered remains have been injectedwith arsenic acid, or chloride of zinc, a newfeature will arise in the case which will pro-duce still greater surprise than any yet mani-fested. As the burnt copper cups, which weresupposed to have been the remains of DoctorParkmans coat buttons, have turned out to beinstruments for chemical purposes ; the silverand other metals vvhich were supposed tohave been the remaints of the Doctors watchand specie, have proved to be lead and tin :and as the supposed spots of blood turn outto be tobacco juice, vvlien examined by a pow-erful microscope, it woidd not be surprising ifthe remains of the corpse should be found tohave been infused with anatomical injectingmatter, and thus, destroy the tragic poetry withwhich the public have been entertained andshocked for the past week. The following are the appearances of theartificial teeth and one natural tooth, taken:fiomthe furnace. It will be perceived thatthere are three blocks of teeth—a front and. two side blocks. They are supposed to bethe work of Dr. Keep, the Dentist, and are:riveted with platimmi wire. The naturaltooth has an external orifice from which goldor some other material appears to have beenmelted out. It is said that the peculiar shapeof these blocks of teeth, and the peculiar 14 The Varkman Tragedy. manner in which the natural tooth was filledwill auggest, to the dentist, who manufacturedthe one and filled the other, to whom the teethbelonged. The Remains of Dr. Parkman, as collectedby the committee of examining physicians,and placed together.
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