Chapter 3 Section 3

Professor West mortgaged his precious ore collection to Dr. Pikeman in the course of several loans.Behind Dr. Peckman's back, Professor West had sold the same ore to Robert Shaw, the doctor's brother-in-law and partner, a few months earlier.Dr. Pikeman was extremely dissatisfied when he learned of the incident, and threatened Professor West to repay the debt immediately, otherwise he would resort to law.The doctor once broke into Professor West's laboratory and home in order to press for debts.One night, he came uninvited to a party at the professor's house and humiliated the Wests in public.

Professor West said that on the morning of November 23, a bank clerk named Seth Petty sent him a check for $90, which was the opening fee just paid by the students, which made him finally Raised enough cash.When the doctor arrived in his laboratory, Professor West gave him all the money, a total of 483.64 US dollars.Dr. Peckman was in a hurry and left without any money.But he told Professor West that he would write off that loan as required. Later, Professor John West told the police about his whereabouts throughout the weekend. After Dr. Pikeman left, he lit the furnace in the laboratory to prepare some oxygen for the next experiment.But the work was not going well, and he stopped halfway through, leaving the laboratory at around 3 o'clock to eat at the nearby Bradham Restaurant.Came home after dinner in a stagecoach, stopped at a shop on the way, and arrived home about half past five.In the evening, my wife and I went to the house of a professor in the neighborhood to have a party with friends.

For the next two days, apart from going to Father Pikeman’s house at 3 o’clock on Sunday afternoon and occasionally going to the medical school and neighbor’s house, I was always at home, playing cards, studying, etc. with my family. Work as usual on Monday. On Tuesday, November 27th, Professor West gave a turkey to Ivren Littlefield, a handyman in the medical school, because the annual Thanksgiving is two days away, and every family in the United States eats turkey day.The school will be on holiday for four consecutive days from that day on. This Evren Littlefield was the third principal person in the case.A few days later, he repaid Professor West's turkey in his special way.

According to the descriptions in some books, Yves is in his 30s, with a beard and a fairly vigorous appearance. Evelyn Littlefeld's chores at Harvard Medical School included cleaning, managing human samples, and running errands for professors.After each anatomy class, Yverren was responsible for sewing up the dismembered corpses of the students and injecting antiseptic potion.If properly preserved, a corpse can be used repeatedly by teachers and students for up to six weeks.The remuneration paid to Ivren by the medical school is a modest salary, and a place to live for his family - two bedrooms on the first floor near the east door, a living room and a living room. kitchen.But life was not miserable for the Littlefields.Everyone in the medical school knows that Ivergin still has some "gray income".

Friday, November 30th, the day after Thanksgiving and exactly one week after Dr. George Peckman disappeared.According to Evren Littlefeld's later testimony in court (indeed, much of what is now known about the case is constructed from court records), that afternoon he first crossed the street to Leonard Borrowing some tools from Mr. Fuller's blacksmith shop, he returned to the medical school, locked all the doors leading to the outside, and then opened the trap door on the floor in the front foyer, and went down to the room between the first floor and the river beach. basement, or cellar.

The basement is full of drainage and sewage pipes, no windows, and no light.Yvergin carried with him a kerosene lamp with a shade.However, due to the thin air, the kerosene lamp will automatically go out after a while.Yvejen crawled about 60 feet down a narrow tunnel in the basement until he came to the sewage pipe beneath Professor West's chemistry laboratory. The sewage pipe is connected to the toilet mouth of the professor's private bathroom, and also serves as a waste outlet or sewage outlet.After a short distance, the mouth of the toilet meets the sewer connected to the sink.This design in the early years was to flush away garbage and dirt while discharging sewage.

At that time, there were no large metal or plastic cylindrical pipes like those used today. The sewage pipes of the medical school were built with five layers of brick walls, which were extremely strong to ensure that they would not leak or be corroded by chemical reagents.Yves used short drills, hammers, steel drills, crowbars, etc. to chip away at the brick walls in sequence.According to estimates by experts who later studied the case, this was at least one and a half day's work for one person.When the last wall was pierced, Ivren could almost see the human body in the sewage pipe at a glance-only 1.5 feet from the opening in the brick wall.

Evren Littlefeld rushed out of the basement without even putting on his coat, and braved the severe cold with his wife to go straight to the home of Dr. Jacob Baikiru, a professor at the Faculty of Medicine.The news quickly alerted the police, and the police led by Director Francis Tucker and Inspector Delasta Colap re-entered Harvard Medical School that night, and the focus of the search was of course John West Professor's laboratory. Professor West's chemistry laboratory consists of two parts, distributed in almost the same location on the first and second floors.The upper floor is mainly a student laboratory, with two long experimental benches and facilities such as sinks and stoves.On the other side of a not-so-thick partition is the professor's own small laboratory, which is used to prepare chemicals and glassware needed for students' experiments.On the left is a private room that locks the laboratory's valuables and dangerous items.

In the northeast corner of the student laboratory is a dedicated staircase leading to the professor's research laboratory on the first floor, where there are two sinks, a furnace (also called a smelting furnace), two stoves (or heating furnaces), two Experiment bench and two Hogshead water storage tanks - so named because of the water valve protruding from the lower part in the shape of a pig's head.The narrow and low place under the stairs is Professor West's private bathroom, which contains a toilet and some sundries.The toilet later became the main investigation point for the police.However, since there is no specific description in the current materials on this case, we can only piece together a general concept from the lines.There should be a seat board on the toilet, under which is a straight tube with at least the same diameter as the toilet mouth.There must have been no running water system at that time, for example, some books mention that the two pig-head water storage tanks were regularly filled by the handyman Ivren Littlefield.A door was opened on the east wall of the laboratory outside the bathroom, and the fuel storage room inside was stacked with three different types of coal.The main entrance to the laboratory is on a sloping wall facing southeast.The third door is on the west wall, and outside the door is the corridor with the anatomy laboratory.