Chapter 8 Section 8

Someone asked about the bathroom, and Yveren said that it was Professor West's private domain, and only the professor had the key.The professor escorted us out of the lab, closing the door behind us.Several officers said they found nothing suspicious. I saw Professor West again on the evening of November 30th in the Leveley Street Prison. ………… After we arrived at the medical school, we first went to the secret room of the professor's laboratory on the second floor.Someone asked for the key to the bathroom downstairs, probably me.Professor West said the keys were hanging on a shelf at the end.We found the key, but it wouldn't go in, so we broke down the door.

I heard them say they found the bones in the smelting furnace, and someone else said don't move it, just leave it there until the forensic jury sees it.Then we went down to the basement through the floor door.The severed limbs had been removed and placed on a wooden board: abdominal cavity, right thigh and right calf.Professor West was so emotional that the police made him stand eight or nine feet away from the wreckage.After 10 or 15 minutes they took him back to the carriage. I was there when Officer Fuller found the ribcage and thigh the next afternoon.I saw them drag the tea box out of the corner and turn it over.The thighs are inserted into the chest cavity.The left thigh and a knife fell out of the box.That part of the body and the thigh was bound with a rope.We take them out and place them with the other members.

I was there when Officer Putnam found the blood-stained trousers on Sunday.I saw a dirty knife, and the saw that had been taken from a nail in the wall.Yveren picked up two pens and handed them to me. On the morning of the second day after his arrest I searched Professor West's house with Inspector Clapp and Sanderson, a Cambridge constable.We got there around 12 o'clock.The first time we brought a search warrant, the second time we didn't.We pried open the bricks in the professor's wine cellar. The court records turned a page: My name is Paddy McGowan, and I have been a servant at the Peckmans since September 16th last year.

I remember that on the day the doctor disappeared, from 8 am to 9 am, a visitor came and asked to see the doctor.I don't know the man, and he didn't give his name, so I can't be sure that he must be Professor John West.I heard the man and the doctor say they meet at 1:30 pm.I heard the doctor say, well, he agrees to meet. next page: My name is Shaw, and my name is Robert Gauld, brother-in-law of the late Dr. George Peckman.If the doctor is still alive, he should be 60 years old in February of this year.Dr. Pikeman was very familiar with defendant West.But I didn't know that the professor owed him money until I told him about West's sale of the ore to me.

………… On the night of November 30th, I heard that a severed limb had been found, and I saw it with my own eyes.They do look like those parts of Dr. George Peckman's body.Mainly the color and density of the chest hair and leg hair, etc., are exactly the same as what I have seen on him before.I've seen his chest hair once.As for the leg, I saw it last November, shortly before his disappearance.It was cold that morning and he came to my house without a coat on.I just told him that I didn't think he was warm enough.He said he didn't even wear his underpants, and he pulled up his pant legs for me to see.I saw his chest when he opened it up once to show me how thick his chest hair was.As for his thighs, I can't tell.And the shape, fatness, size, etc. of those severed limbs were exactly the same as Dr. Peckman's physique.All in all, I don't see anything out of the ordinary.

I also saw false teeth scraped from the ashes.I know he has dentures. After the autopsy, the severed limbs were handed over to me.I was in charge of encoffining and burying them. As to my business relations with Professor West, and Dr. Peckman, I received a letter from the defendant on April 18 or 19, 1848, requesting a private interview with me, and I arranged for a second morning.He came, and said he was really ashamed, and that if he didn't put together enough money at once to pay a debt that was a year overdue, the police would come and take his furniture.He wants me to buy his crate of ore.I said I don't need ore.He said maybe I could donate the ore to such-and-such a college or such-and-such research institute.He asked $1200.I refuse again.But he kept persuading and putting pressure on me.In the end, I had to agree to help him.I asked him how much the overdue debt was.He said $600.I said that if he could find a bank to honor the bill in my hand, I would buy his ore.Later he came again, on the same morning, and said that he had already found a bank, which seemed to be Joel Jiang Bank as I recall.I billed him.Here is the receipt for that bill, dated April 20.Soon, he sent me the catalog of the ore and the bill for buying the ore, which I put away for filing without looking at it carefully. On June 6th, he came to collect and I wrote him a check for $200. On August 3, another $400 was given to him.I have his receipts for all these transactions on the accounts.Then he said he wanted to keep some of the ore already on the catalogue, if I didn't object.I told him, it's fine to stay, as long as he pays the interest.But he is unwilling to pay interest.We didn't talk about it anymore after that.

Not long after that, Dr. Peckman and I met Professor West one day on Mount Vernon Road.After walking by, I asked Dr. Peckman how much Professor West's salary was at Harvard. $1900, he replied.I said, "That's less than half of his family's expenses." Then it came to him asking me to borrow money and sell the ore.Dr. Pikeman immediately said: "How can he have the right to sell those ores? He has mortgaged them all to me. If you don't believe me, I can show you the deed." He took me to his home.I compared his deed to my bill and it was indeed the same ore.He added that he was going to see Professor West and teach him a lesson.He said it was an outright fraud and deserved to be punished.

………… Responding to cross-examination by defense attorney Edward Sawyer, Robert Shaw said: "If I hadn't known that Dr. Peckman had disappeared, I wouldn't have thought the severed limbs were his remains. Before I came to that conclusion The fact that Dr Peckman is missing is as important as the color of those hairs."