ical lectures; - Dr. Webster's among others; recollect seeing Dr. Webster, Friday, 23rd, after the lectures were over, about 6 o'clock; saw him about ten or 12 feet from the carriage shed on the east side of the building, and entering the shed; am not able to state whether he entered the college or not. Cross-examined. It was a circumstance to meet Dr. Webster there that night, so remarkable that I laid it up in my recollection; first mentioned this to Mr. Richardson, a member of the bar; had never seen the doctor there at so late an hour before, after he had lectured. His usual habit was to go away, lecture days, immediately after he had lectured. William Calhoun. I drive a team for Mr. Fuller, the iron founder; recollect seeing Dr. Webster the Sunday after the disappearance, in front of the college; was with Mr. Littlefield, talking with him; Dr. Webster said to Mr. Littlefield, Did you see anything of Dr. Parkman the latter part of last week? Yes, says Mr. Littlefield, I did. Whereabouts did you see him? About the ground where we now stand, he replied. Which way was the doctor coming? Littlefield answered, He was coming towards the college. Where was you when you saw him? Mr. Littlefield said, Somewhere about the front entry, or front door of the college. He also asked, Did you see him enter the college? Mr. Littlefield said, No, as I went and sat down in one of the rooms. He asked what time it was when he saw Dr. Parkman. Mr. Littlefield answered, It was about half-past one o'clock. The doctor said that he paid him $483 on his lecture room table; that Dr. Parkman never stopped to count the money, but grabbed it up, or wrapped it up, and ran away, or went off as fast as he could; and that he told Dr. Parkman that he must go to Cambridge and see if the mortgage was discharged, and everything done up in good shape; and that was the last he saw of him. Dr. John B. S. Jackson. I am one of the professors at the Medical College; am Professor of Pathological Anatomy; have known Mr. Littlefield seven years; about 1 o'clock of the day of Dr. Webster's arrest, Mr. Littlefield came to my room; informed me that he had already commenced and partially dug through the wall; advised him to go on and finish the opening through the wall; told him that if he made any discovery to go at once and inform Dr. Bigelow, Sr. and call at my rooms in the neighborhood and to leave his name upon my slate if I was not in; enjoined strict secrecy him; when I came home found his name upon my slate. on George W. Trenholm. Am a police officer; last November my beat was in the district near the Medical College; Knew Mr. Littlefield and Professor Webster. Saw Professor Webster on Sunday afternoon, 25th; was standing in front of the Medical College, in North Grove street, talking with Mr. James H. Blake. Dr. Webster came from towards the front steps toward us; his first remark was that he had read of Dr. Parkman's disappearance in the newspaper the evening before; he said that he thought he would come in and let his friends know that about that time he paid him $483, and some odd cents; that Dr. Parkman took the money up and started out of the room without counting it, and told him that he would go to Cambridge and discharge the mortgage; left Dr. Webster and Mr. Blake there together. On Friday was passing by the college about 4 o'clock and met Mr. Littlefield; he told me that he had commenced digging through the wall and of his suspicions of Dr. Webster; said that he had told the officers that every place in the college had been searched except the doctor's private privy, and that he was now going to dig through the wall, to satisfy himself and the public; he took me into the dissecting room entry, told me that the wall had been very hot the day before; so hot that he could not bear his hand on it; put my hand, by his direction, upon the wall, but could not then feel any heat; we went round to the front of the building, and while we stood talking, Dr. Webster came up and said to me, What about that twenty dollar bill? told him that I had not heard anything about it; he said that an Irishman came to the Cambridge bridge and offered a twenty dollar bill to pay one cent toll; the toll man thought that it was strange that an Irishman should have a twenty dollar bill, and he asked him where he got it and he said, From Dr. Webster. Dr. Webster said that the marshal had the bill and had sent for him to identify it, but, said he, I told him that I could not swear to it. The doctor then went off, bidding me good night. Assisted in taking out the re mains. We all went down to get them. Mr. Littlefield and I crawled through the hole; I held the lamp and Mr. Littlefield passed the remains out; about 11 o'clock Professor Webster and his party arrived; some one asked for the key of the privy door and Mr. Littlefield made answer that the doctor had the key, as he always kept it himself; the doctor pointed to a hook, or a nail, and said, that it was up there; I think Mr. Starkweather took the key down and handed it to Mr. Littlefield; he and I went down to the laboratory and the key would not unlock the privy door; I tried the key and told Mr. Littlefield that it was not the key; we went up stairs again and Mr. Littlefield told Professor Webster that that was not the key; don't recollect what Professor Webster replied; the door was then broken open. Dr. Webster appeared differently in the two rooms; more agitated in the laboratory; he snapped at the water given to him. Cross-examined. Had not heard anything about the twenty dollar bill till Dr. Webster spoke of it; was slightly acquainted with Dr. Webster, he having employed me on some police errands. Mr. Littlefield told me of his suspicions of Dr. Webster on Friday; told me that he wished me not to say anything about his digging through the wall. Nathaniel D. Swain. Run the Cambridge and Boston express; know Professor Webster; have been in the habit of bringing in and carrying out articles for him; was there Monday, November 26th, and brought in two bundles of fagots, or cuttings of grape vines; took them to Pro fessor Webster's house; brought in also an empty box and a bag of tan; the box was about a foot and a half square, like a soap box; took the bag and box from Dr. Webster's house in Cambridge and left them in Mr. Littlefield's cellar; I received directions from Dr. Webster to leave them there, and he said, I will take them into my laboratory myself; had never received any similar instructions before; have been in the business three years next August, and suppose that I have been to the college for him during that time, two hundred times, at least; had always been accustomed to leave articles in the lower laboratory, or else in the upper; if I found the doors locked would take the keys in Mr. Littlefield's kitchen and open them myself. Monday when I left the articles, looked for the keys and tried to open the door; took hold of the laboratory stairs door to set the articles in, but found it fast; I then sat them down by that door, in Mr. Littlefield's cellar and went through the entry to the store room door and found that fast, like the other one; then looked for the keys and could not find them; went again to the Medical College for Dr. Webster on 28th November, Wednesday, and carried two boxes; the largest was about two and a half feet long, one foot deep, and ten inches wide; the other was about one and a half feet square; the small box was full and the other empty; left them in Littlefield's cellar, where I left those on Monday; a piece of the cover of the small box was broken off, one end, and I observed a piece of a small check handkerchief; did not try the door; I saw the other things there, the grape vines and the box,-though not the bag of tan; went to the college after the arrest of Professor Webster; I could not find but one box which I could identify, and that was the small one which I took in on Wednesday; the box which had the check handkerchief; it was marked with red chalk, J. W. Webster, Cambridge. I saw the grape vines, but not the other things; the other boxes were made of pine. Cross-examined. Have seen this clasp knife, or jack knife, before [that found in the tea chest]; saw it on 17th November, last, in Dr. Webster's hands, in his garden at Cambridge; he was trimming his grape vines, and was standing on some steps. Derastus Clapp. Have been a police officer since 1828. On 5th December was directed by the City Marshal to search the house of Dr. Webster; took Officers Hopkins and Sanderson; the others went up stairs while I remained down; went to search for a particular parcel of papers in Dr. Webster's house, in consequence of directions which were given me; asked Mrs. Webster if she had in her possession any particular parcel or package given her by the defendant; she left the room and presently returned, bringing a bundle of papers; the papers not being articles named in the search warrant, requested Mr. Sanderson to replace in the trunk up stairs where he had found them and to bring the trunk down, which was done; recognized the handwriting of Dr. Parkman on two of the papers, and put my ini tials on all of them, for the purpose of identification. [The notes bearing the witness's initials were produced and $400. put into the case; the defendant's handwriting being admitted by his counsel. The following are copies of the notes:] Boston, June 22d, 1842. For value received, I promise to pay George Parkman, or order, the sum of four hundred dollars in fifteen months from this date, with interest, to be paid at the rate of six per centum per annum. J. W. Webster. [On the bottom of the note, in pencil marks, admitted to be the handwriting of Dr. Parkman, was the memorandum:] This is to be given up, on pay't of W.'s note, of Jan'y 22d, '47. [And on the back of the note were two indorsements, in ink, also admitted to be by Dr. Parkman, of—] 1845, July 10th. In't is act'd to date, by rec't, and seven dolls. of principal, leaving due $393. Oct. 10. Seventy-five dolls. [In another place, on the back of the same note, was an indorsement in pencil, which, Mr. Bemis stated, would be shown to be in the defendant's handwriting, as follows:] $483.64, bal. p'd. Nov. 22, '49. [Across the face of the note were two heavy transverse dashes, each about two inches and a half long, and from an eighth, to a quarter of an inch in breadth. One of these terminated in a collection of hair, or fibrous marks, as if made by an instrument capable of making a number of such marks simultaneously. There was also a single heavy transverse dash across the signature, "J. W. Webster." It was stated that it would be hereafter proved that these dashes, and similar ones on the other note, were not made by a pen, as had been represented by the prisoner.] [The second note was as follows:] Boston, Jan'y 22d, 1847. Value rec'd, I promise to pay to Geo. Parkman, or order, twenty-four hundred and thirty-two dollars, within four years from date, with interest yearly: a quarter of said capital sum being to be paid yearly. J. W. Webster. $2432. Witness, Chas. Cunningham. [Underneath the body of the note (and on its face) were two memoranda, both admitted to be in Dr. Parkman's handwriting. The first, in pencil, as follows:] 500 of the above is G. P.'s.+332=832. Bal. due Mr. Chas. C. [The second memorandum (in ink), with the exception of the words and figures after "cancelled," was as follows:] On pay't to G. Parkman, of eight hundred and thirty-two dollars of this note, and in't, Dr. W.'s other mortgage & note to G. P., of June 22d, 1842, is to be cancelled. (Copy W. has, 831 832, corrected.) [Across the face of this note were two heavy dashes, similar to those upon the face of the other note, though still wider. The signature was also dashed out, with a similar heavy dash. The word "paid" was also written twice, transversely, across the face of the note, in ink. The counsel for the defense declining to admit that these latter words were in the prisoner's handwriting, it was stated that they would be shown to be so, hereafter, by the Government's proof. On the back of the note, indorsed in pencil (in what was admitted to be Dr. Parkman's handwriting), was the memorandum]— 7, Nov. 3d, $17.56, as by rec't. [Also in ink, and in Dr. Parkman's handwriting, the further memoranda:] 1848, Apl. 18th. Rec'd a hundred and eighty-seven dollars 50-100, by Chas. Cunningham, and gave ree't. G. P. Nov. 11th. A hundred and eighty-seven dolls. 50-100, by C. C., and gave rec't. Mr. Clapp. The memoranda shown to me came from the prisoner's wallet, when I searched The first read as follows: Nov. 9, Friday, rec'd $510.00 him at the Leverett street jail the night of his arrest, November 30th. 234.10, out Dr. Big. Petee Cash........$275.90 Dr. P. came to lecture room, front left hand seat,-students stopped he waited till gone, and came to me and asked for money -Desired him to wait till Friday 23d, as all the tickets were not paid for, but no doubt wd be then-he, good deal excited-went away-and I owed him $483.64. Friday 23d, called at his house about 9 a. m.; told him I had the money, and if he wd call soon after one, wd pay him-He called at 1/2 past, and I paid him, $483.64 cts. 9th Due Dr. P., who called at lecture, $483.64, by his act. Desired him to wait until Friday 23d-Angry. Friday, 1⁄2 1, pd. him; he to clear mortgage. Note, Feb. 13, 1847, including smaller one, $2432. (The) $125 |