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TRIAL OF JOHN W. WEBSTER. 103
There are seven professors connected with the Faculty. My duty is,
to dispose of the tickets, and receive the money for the same. Each
professor has his own tickets, and receives his own funds. I entered
on my duties on the 7th of November. This was my first acquaintance
with Dr. W ebster. I received one hundred of - Professor Webster's
tickets, to dispose of to the students who wished to attend his lectures.
Previous to, and up to the 23d of November, I had disposed of fifty-
five of his tickets; for which I had received pay, in cash, at fifteen
dollars a ticket, $825. Of the balance of the hundred tickets, I have sold
some for the promissory notes of the students, which they gave in pay-
ment, not being able to pay the money; and some were given away, as
"third-course," or free, tickets. Those sold for notes, and the free,
together, amounted to thirty-eight; and I have seven, on hand.
Out of the promissory notes, taken in payment, Dr. Webster had
realized nothing, prior to November 23d; though fifteen dollars had been
collected on two half-pa.y tickets of his. This sum, however, had gone
to pay Dr. Bigelow, for a debt due the Faculty. So that, previous to the
23d, the sum of $825, before named, was all that I had collected for Dr.
Webster, for his lecture-tickets. I do not know how many more
tickets than those which I received, were sold for his course. The whole
number of students attending the lectures, was one hundred and seven;
and I have only known of three instances of tickets being sold for the
Doctor's course, which did not pass through my hands. One was a
ticket for a Mr. Ridgeway, which MrC'Littlefield sold, and collected the
money for. The other was delivered upon an order of Dr. Holmes's:
and there was one other, which, I was told, passed through Mr. Little-
field's hands.
The course of medical lectures began, Nov. 7th. The first payment
that I made to Dr. Webster, or division of his part of the joint receipts
for tickets, was on the 9th. There was then due him, $510. I paid him
in this way.-I deducted out of the $510, the amount of a note due Dr.
Bigelow, $234 10, which Dr. Bigelow had given me to collect; and paid
over to Dr. Webster, the balance, $275 90, in a check: This check, which
I now produce, paid, bears date, November 9th. [Check produced.]
The next division was, on, or about, November 14th. I credited Dr.
Webster on my account, at that time, w th thirteen tickets, amounting
to $195, and paid him, by a check for that amount, about the some time.
The check was on the Freeman's Bank; and I drew it, and paid him in
the bills of the New England Bank; the teller of the latter bank cashing
it for me, for my accommodation. The next division was on November
16th. I credited Professor Webster then, with two tickets,-$30. That
amount, I paid him with a check, dated the 16th. I paid it to Mr. Little-
field, on an order from Dr. Webster. The order was not handed to me
till the 20th, and bears date that day. [Produced.] I did not see Pro-
fessor Webster in the meantime. On the 23d, I credited him with $90,
the price of six tickets sold: For this, I drew a check for $90, and
handed it to him, personally, at the Medical College, on the morning of
that day. I have paid him nothing since.
The first time that I ever saw Dr. George Parkman, to know him,
was on the 12th day of November last. He came .to my place of busi-
ness, the bank, and inquired of me, whether I collected the funds of the
Medical College,
Mr. Bemis.-State any inquiries which he made in regard to Dr.
Webster.
Mr. Sohier-We object to this conversation of the witness's with Dr.
Parkman.
Mr. Bemis, (addressing the Court.)-We do not ask it as a conversa-
tion. We ask it as a fact, to ascertain whether, or not, Dr. Parkman
made inquiries about the state of Dr. Webster's funds, in the witness's
hands.
Chief Justice.-That is admissible.
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