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to 9$825; 1 disposed of all the tickets for the faculty's lectures; I
disposed pf about 100 in all;
fox some I received promissory notes, and some were given free, according
to custom. (Eooking
at an account) I disposed of 9o tickets to Professor Webstefi's lectures;
381 disposed of for
romissory notes; and 7 remain on hand. L collected two of the promissory
notes on half ticket.
Prof. W. would realize $lv on the amount thus collected; all therefore
collected on the tickets
sold by me amounted to $825 plus $15; the $15 1 paid to Dr. Bigelow
Treasurer of the faculty,
by order of Prof. W. I have a list, of 107 students who attended the whole
course of the faculty's
lectures. There was one other ticket to Prof. W.'s lectures which I have
not mentioned. Mr.
Littlefield sent for me to come to his house and fill out a ticket for a
student named E. R. Ridge-
way; there were two other tickets which I have not named. There was due
Prof. W. out of those
tickets, sold for the first division, $510. I paid that in the following
manner; I paid Dr. Bigelow
a note dated April, 1849, in his favor, against Prof. Webster, for $225 89,
and interest $8 21,
making the amount of the note $234 10; the balance of the funds, amounting
to $275 90, I myself
paid to Prof. Jno. W. Webster. The next division was on the 14th or about
the 14th; I credited
him with thirteen tickets sold, amounting to $195 ; I drew a check for it
on the teller of the New
England Bank. The check is dated on the 14th of November. Prof W. endorsed
the check, and
I gave him the money for it. The next division was on the 16th, for two
tickets, amounting to
$30. This I paid Mr. Littlefield on an order from Prof. W.; I also gave the
rest of the tickets
on hand to Littlefield on the order. The last division I paid Prof. W. was
on Friday, the 23d
Nov. 1849; I gave him a check on the New England Bank for $90, and charged
him with ip; I
,have now some funds on hand belonging to Prof. W. The first time I saw Dr.
Parkman was,on
the 14th November, 1849. He came into my office and inquired if I collected
the money for the
Medical Faculty. He asked me if I had any money belonging to Prof. W.; I
said I had not', as
I had paid Prof. W. but a few days before; he (P.) made some remarks, and
left the Bank.
In a few moments lie returned, and took a dividend belonging.to "his wife,
and signed his name
0e e Parkman; I asked him if Professor Webster owed him anything; he said,
" I should
org think you might know by my manner." IIe came in a few days afterwards,
and asked again' if I
had collected any more funds for Professor Webster; I said I had just paid
him $$196 ; he sI,
`I thought I had given you a hint to retain the money for me." 1 replied.
that I had no authority
to retain the funds but was ordered to collect and pay them over; he said,
" You would have
been doing justice to Prof. Webster and myself, if you had paid the money
to me because now I'"
shall have to distress Prof. Webster and his family-now I shall have to
trustee him." He made
$ome further remarks, and then said " Prof. Webster is a dishonorable man,
and do you tell
him so for me." I never saw Dr. Parkman afterwards; I went to the Medical
College about,9
o'clock on the mornin; of the 23d of Nov., 1849 ; I inquii ed for Mr.
Littlefield; there was hang-
ing in the entry a notice in the advertisement that I wished to alter from
Thursday to Saturday.
To the Court.-This was a notice given by myself to the students that I
would be at the Col-
lege on Saturday to dispose of the tickets; I went into the College and
down the stairs through
the entry into the Laboratory ; the door was not locked; I passed into the
back private room,
found Prof. W. there; excused myself for coming in at that hour in the
morning-he said,
" Walk in "-I then stated to him the reason I came; I told him that Dr. P.
had been to me
several times to see if I had funds belonging to him, Webster, with the
intention of trusteein,g
md, and as. I did not like to have any money belonging to him, W., in my
possession, and so had
come to pay it over to him; he remarked, Dr. Parkman is a sin ular sort of
man, very nervous,
and that he was accustomed to have fits of aberration of mina-so much so;
that he has been
obliged to put his business into the hands of Mr. Blake, a relative of his;
he, W., added, you wol
have no further trouble with him, Dr. P., for I have settled him. '
I gave Prof W. on that occasion $90; I called again on him the afternoon of
the same day,
Friday, the 23d at the request of Mr. Littlefield; i went to the front door
and found it looked;
a girl came to the door and told me to go round the other way; I went down
stairs to the other
door, and Mr. L. came to the door in his stocking feet; it was then
arranged about the tickets, and
I went away; I called at the College the next day; went into the lecture
room, and there saw
Mr. Littlefield.
[Here the defense objected to the introduction of this testimony on the
ground that the govern'-
ment introduced this evidence merely to corroborate the collateral
testimony of another witnes9.
The government urged the question, but the Bench overruled the introduction
of such evidence.)
I went to the College with the intention of paying him the money I then had
in my hands, be-
longing to him; do not think he knew I intended to pay him any money that
morning, or whether
he expected to see me.
I don't recollect hearing Dr. Parkman making use of any profane language
during the inter-
view at the New England Bank; he made some expression when I told him I had
paid Professor
W. a day or two before, that sounded like " the devil you have," or
something like it; don't
really know whether he used profane language or not; told him I would not
employ any ex-
pressions like those he applied to Prof. W. to him for any man.
Cross-examnined-I have only a list of those students who buy tickets of me;
don't know
whether there were more at the lectures or not or by whom the, others were
supplied.
The expressions used by Dr. P., relative to Prof. W., were very harsh;
don't know the man
well enough to say whether he was angry or not; be was a good deal agitated
at the time.
Direct examination resumed-I did not think I communicated any expression to
Professor,
Webster, Prom Dr. Parkman, similar to "you are a damned scoundrel," "
whelp," or the like.
Thirty-ninth ffritnese-JoaN B- DANA called-Am Cashier of Charles River
Bank; Prof. IV
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