Word: parkman
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...Wyeth-Webster house at 22 Garden Street has a particularly gruesome history. Its owner was John White Webster, a Harvard chemistry professor who killed and burned the body of his colleague George Parkman...
According to Charles Sullivan, executivedirector of the Historical Commission, 22 Harvardprofessor John White Webster, who was tried andconvicted in 1850 of murdering, dismembering andincinerating George Parkman in the famousCommonwealth vs. Webster court case...
...public's interest became so great in People v. Webster that worker productivity went down. On the day Shaw's award was announced, the entire city of Boston stopped working to search for Parkman...
...then, on July 2, 1850, Webster admitted to the crime. He said he had become angry with Parkman and had grabbed the nearest object with which to hit Parkman. What he grabbed was a "stick of wood." The blow killed the professor...
...August 30, 1850, in front of a hushed crowd of thousands at the Leverett Street Jail, John W. Webster was hung for the murder of George Parkman...