The Terrible Deed of John White Webster

Good evening. This is Crime Classics. I am Thomas Highland. I'm going to tell you another true crime story. Listen. The man in the Striped Pants and Red Galluses and Salluloid Collar is Master of Arts and Doctor of Medicine at Harvard University, as well as Irving Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy at this institution.

Quite an educated man, a scholar. He has just turned on the faucet for a reason. He has just dissected a Kali and he needs to wash away the blood. This is Thanksgiving Week in the year 1849, the disactor's name, John W. Webster, the dissectees, George Parkman.

Dr. Webster has just committed murder because Dr. Parkman was a stubborn man to the very And tonight, my report to you on the terrible deed of John White Webster and his crime that shocked a nation.

Crime classics. A series of true crime stories taken from the records and newspapers of every land from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Highland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders.

Now once again, Thomas Highland. The place is the Massachusetts Medical College on Grove Street in Boston and the year 1849. The college was a three-story building, the top two floors of which were reserved as offices and studies for the faculty.

Dr. Webster occupied two high-ceiling grooms on the second floor, just below the suite occupied by Oliver Wendell Holmes. On the afternoon of November 23, Dr. Webster had a visitor, a man much taller and heavier than him, a man of scholastic bearing, a man whose spectacle ribbon touched lightly his mutton-chopped whiskers.

His name? Dr. George Parkman. Dr. Lecturer. Cratitor. A man with a purpose. I want my money. You'll get it. When? When I've got it. I must tell you something, Dr. Webster. No, can't you just drink your tea and enjoy the afternoon?