Death
Parkman was murdered on Friday, November 23, 1849. After an extensive search by Derastus Clapp and other police officers from Francis Tukey's newly formed Boston police force, Parkman's dismembered and partly burned body was discovered on November 30 by Ephraim Littlefield, a janitor at Harvard Medical School. Parkman's funeral was held on December 6, an event for which thousands of people lined the streets of Boston.
John White Webster (May 20, 1793 – August 30, 1850), a professor of chemistry and geology at Harvard Medical School, was convicted for Parkman's murder on March 30, 1850, after a 12 day trial presided over by Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Edward Dexter Sohier and Pliny T. Merrick served as Webster's counsel, while Massachusetts Attorney General (later Governor) John Clifford and George Bemis led the prosecution. Webster was executed by hanging in Boston on August 30, 1850.
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