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In pencil mark on the same note as follows:-500 of the above is G. P.'s
Plus 332 equals 832,
Also reversed on the same note the followin :-On payment of 832 dollars of
this and interest.
Dr. Webster's other mortgage and note to ~. P. of June 22d, 1$42, is to be
canceled. And in
pencil again-(copy)-W. has $831.23 1-2 collected. This note is also
endorsed as follows :--
1848, April 18th, received a hundred and eighty-seven dollars fifty
one-hundredths, by Charles
Cunningham. I gave receipt, G. P. Nov. 11th, a hundred and eighty-seven
dollars fifty one-
hundredths, by C. J., gave receipt. And again in pencil marks t 7-Nov. 3d,
$17.66 by re-
ceipt. Here the account current containing a statement of the business
relations of Professor
Webster and Dr. Parkman was read to the Court, a true copy of which we give
below.
,dccount Current -The third paper read was a memorandum dated April 25th,
1849, and
signed C. C., directed to Dr. Webster, on which is a statement of several
money transactions
between Dr. Webster and the late Dr. Parkman, showing that the note of
$2,432, was to cover
the following sums. It read as follows. " Due Dr. P., agreeing with Dr.
Webster's account, $348 83. Due me, Prescott, $200. Due
A. & C. C., $234, and for amount of hills paid which exceed the $1,600, but
allowed by several
individuals on settlement, $49 62 ; consequently, the $347 83 is included
in the balance of your
notes; and Dr. P. took his security in the note for $2.432, and mortgages
for that sum; because
he did not consider the security he had sufficient for the 88348 83, and
declined surrendering the
aflte,until the debt is paid He says you received a document from him,
dated January, 1847,
stating the amount of $2,432 covers both debts to him; the note for $2 432,
is in his favor, and
is held by him. Your debt to him :appears to be the old balance of $348 83,
loaned to you of
the $1,000; $500 deduct-paid him $376, leaves 125; giving $473 83 He says
you paid him
Nov. 3d, 1847, and have receipt for $17 56, without interest; $466 26 after
loss of $1,600
nett. 1847, you owed Dr. Y. as above, $125 ; W. Prescott advanced $500;
paid him $187 60-
$312 60 Mrs P. advanced $200; paid her 75-$12b. Mr. Nye advanced $200; paid
him
$'150-$50. C. C. advanced $100 ; paid him $75-$26. Amount, $637 50. I have
seen Dr. P.
this evening, as requested by you, and trust the above contains all the
information you wish."
In pencil thus: " But due Dr. P. is $456 27 ; $27 37 ; $483 64."
Also, in pencil. " The interest as above calculated." J
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Direct examination of Constable Clapp resumed.-I took a wallet from
Professor Webster at.
the jail, and put my marks on the memorandums; they will be found annexed.
[COPY.] '
" Mr. A. Friday received $610. $234 10, and Doctor Big., leaving $275 90;
Potter cash;
Dr. P. came to lecture room, forward 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 would be then; he, good deal excited, went away;
said I owed him
$$484 64 ; Friday, 23d, called at his house about 9 o'clock, A. M.; told
him I had the money, and
if he would call soon after one, would pay him; he called at half past one
and I paid him
$483 64."
On the 2d page of the sheet, containing the above, was also written the
following
" 9th. Due Dr. P., who called at lecture, $483 64, by his account; desired
him to wait until
Friday 28-angry."
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Friday J part 1.-Paid him to clear mortgage notes, Febuary 13th, 1847,
including small one
$2137 ; 125 due him on loan, which the large note covering, he agreed to
give up toward sale
of minerals; balance due $483 64; paid and he gave me up two notes; had not
the mortgage
but said he would go and cancel it; hued paid him 075 by Smith, 125
due-total, $500; the loan
receipt from other persons, mortgage 22d Jane, 1842: note $400, June 22d,
1842; note $2,432
January 22d, 1847."
After this a small scrap of paper was exhibited to the Court by the
Government, and put in
evidence; it had on it several words, such as " molasses jug," solder, "
paint," &c. ; it was dated
Friday 23d Nov., 1849.
Direct examination resumed-On the night when we went to the College to make
the search,
we went with Mr. Littlefield to the door of the Professor's laboratory, and
Littlefield knocked;
he knocked twice before Prof. W., come-when Pro. W., came to the door, I
recognized him at
ante; had known him by sight for a quarter of a century; I said to him-" We
have not the
slightest idea of searching your rooms, but we thought that if we began by
searching the College,
the other people in the neighborhood couldn't say anything against having
their own houses
searched." Prof. W. let us in, and we passed through the upper and lower
laboratories; I
didn't take much notice of the rooms at the time; I went toward the privy,
and some one called
my attention from it; do not remember which door we went out of, whether it
was out of Little-
field's door or the front door ; we went to the directing-vault.
The impressions made on my mind by that search were not very vivid,
inasmuch as I did not
suspect in the least that Dr. P. was inside the College rooms. We made
every thorough search
of Littlefield's apartmenta. We searched the garments of the males and
females of Mr. Little-
field's family ; on Friday night when Prof. Webster was arrested I was sent
to the College by
the City Marshal; I went down the cellar and saw the remains in the privy
vault,; came up and
went through the laboratory and examined it thoroughly; saw a pan in the
lower laboratory
which.was covered over by several pieces of freestone; I lifted the
f3reestone%off the pan .with
the assistance o€ another officer, and found some hard coal with pieces of
bone attached to it. . I
was shortly afterward sent by the City Marshal to Cambridge to arrest Prof.
Webster; I went to
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