• College; Webster was convicted of Parkman's murder and hanged. Highly publicized because of its gruesome nature and the high social status of Parkman and Webster...
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    victim in the sensationally gruesome ParkmanWebster murder case, which shook Boston in 1849–1850. Samuel Parkman (August 22, 1751 – June 11, 1824) and...
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    In 1850, he was convicted of murder in the ParkmanWebster murder case and hanged. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Webster was well-connected both by family...
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  • victim in the ParkmanWebster murder case Håkan Parkman (1955–1988), Swedish composer, arranger, and choral director Harry L. Parkman, American politician...
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    the prosecution in the ParkmanWebster murder case, where Dr. John White Webster was on trial for the murder of Dr. George Parkman. Wyman's recognized authority...
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  • Cause célèbre (redirect from Famous cases)
    Lafarge case, France, 1840 The ParkmanWebster murder case, United States, 1849–1850 The Mortara case, Papal States, 1850s and 1860s Tichborne case, United...
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  • Cinema: Murder on Beacon Hill is an iPhone application designed by Untravel Media, based on the ParkmanWebster murder case, where John White Webster was...
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    played a minor role in the apprehension of the culprit in the ParkmanWebster murder case. Bigelow was born March 11, 1818, in Boston to his mother, Mary...
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    victim in the Parkman–Webster murder case Francis Parkman Jr., historian; grandson of Samuel Parkman; nephew of George Parkman Peabody Family Elizabeth Palmer...
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    of the most sensational trials of the 19th century, the ParkmanWebster murder case. The case, where both victim and assailant were from the upper crust...
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  • ParkmanWebster murder case (1850). Sohier and Merrick lost the case and Webster was hanged, but Sohier's and Webster's detailed notes from the case survive...
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    brought Shaw such criticism or such respect as the ParkmanWebster murder case, i.e., Commonwealth v. Webster, held in Boston in March 1850. While Shaw was...
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    the notorious ParkmanWebster murder case. Both George Parkman (the victim), a local physician and wealthy benefactor, and John Webster (the assailant)...
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  • snatching John White Webster, 1815, convicted and executed in the ParkmanWebster murder case Nathan Cooley Keep, 1827, founding dean of the Harvard School...
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  • professor John White Webster (1793–1850) College 1811; Medical 1815 Physician, professor, killer; Parkman-Webster murder case Edward Osborne Wilson (1929–2021)...
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  • murder. Parker testified as a government witness during the ParkmanWebster murder case. In 1852, Parker was removed from office for political reasons...
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  • Quintette Club founded. John P. Bigelow becomes mayor. 1850 ParkmanWebster murder case. Fetridge and Company in business. Roberts v. City of Boston...
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  • professors from the College, John White Webster who was eventually found to be responsible for Parkman’s Murder After this encounter James met William...
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  • for his role in the arrest and prosecution of John White Webster for the murder of George Parkman. Clapp was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, but soon moved...
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    Parkman-Webster murder case. The gruesome murder drew national attention and although Merrick lost the case, he received much notoriety for the case....
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    Supreme Judicial Court (1850). Report of the case of John W. Webster, indicted for the murder of George Parkman, before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts :...
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    during criminal prosecution. The second major case that Bemis was involved in was the Parkman-Webster murder case. Bemis acted as co-counsel to Massachusetts...
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    notably refusing to commute the death sentence of John White Webster for the murder of George Parkman. Briggs died of an accidental gunshot wound at his home...
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    the nineteenth century, that of John White Webster, who had been accused of the murder of George Parkman. Morton's rival, Dr Jackson, testified for the...
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    John White Webster was on trial for the murder of George Parkman in 1850 in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. George Parkman went missing...
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  • and in 1834 Henry Joseph also. In 1850, Dr. Webster of the highly publicized George Parkman murder case was executed. The conditions in the jail were...
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  • Washington Goode (category People convicted of murder by Massachusetts)
    would sentence Professor John White Webster to death for the murder of Harvard Medical School benefactor, George Parkman, another trial that would capture...
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    Archived August 29, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Parkman Club Publications No. 10. Milwaukee, Wis.: Parkman Club, 1896; retrieved January 29, 2008. Slesinger...
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    welcomed the publicity. He was in charge of the investigation of the ParkmanWebster murder in 1849–50. In 1851, he returned runaway slave Thomas Sims to Georgia...
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  • Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus...
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