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:kept kis bank account there; the bank-book now exhibited is one belonging
tohim; the deposites
made by Prof. W., in the month of November, were as follows: " November
10th, $375 20, a
check on the Freeman's Bank. Nov. 24th, a check for $90 on the same Bank.
On the 23d of
November, the balance due Prof. Webster.in the Bank was $130 16. On the 1st
of November
until the 16th, he bad on band in the Bank a balance due him of $426. On
the 10th, he depo-
sited the sum of $275 90. On the 13th December, he drew on a check in favor
of a Mr. White, a
check for $93 75. On December 3d, he drew a check for $5, and another for
$19.
s These were the last sums paid; there was a balance due him on the day
before his arrest,
amounting to $68 78. This amount was trusteed on Saturday, the day after he
was arrested;
,the trustee writ was issued in the name of one Richardson, coal dealer. I
sometimes pay checks
'nn one day, and don't charge them until the next; am certain that I paid
the last check on Satur-
iay, and not on Monday, as charged.
Cross-examination of his witness declined.
Fortieth Witness-Dr. DANIEL HENCHMAN called and sworn-Am a druggist, doing
business
in Cambridge; am acquainted with Prof. 11'. ; Prof. W. asked me if I could
give him bills for a
check to the amount of $10; I did so ; gave one bill; he gave me a check on
the Charles River
Bank; it bears date the 22d Nov., 1849; it was handed me on the morning of
the 23d, at about
10 o'clock in the morning; I have never received any payment for that check
up to the present
day; the check was presented at the Bank on Saturday, and they said there
were no funds.
Cross-examined-Don't know of my own knowledge tat they said there were no
funds- don't
know that it was presented on Saturday ;the man that I gave the check to
for collection told me
so.
Mr. SOHIEH-Well, get down, then.
Forty-first Witness-J. H. BLAKE called and sworn-Am nephew to Dr. Parkman.
On the
Sunday after the disappearance of Dr. Parkman, I was standing in the jail
lands with some po-
lice officers when Dr. 'Webster came up; he had no overcoat on; the day was
rather an unplea-
sant one; he said he had read in the Transcript that Dr. P. was missing,
and he had come into
the city to tell his (Dr. Parkman's) family that he (Prof. Webster) was the
man who had called
at Dr P.'s house on Friday forenoon to make an appointment to meet him at
half-past ene
o'clock; that the Dr. had called upon him, and he had paid him $483 64, due
on a mortgage, and
that be had trusted in Dr. P. to discharge the mortgage; he (W.) said, '°
We all know Dr. P. to
be an IonAst man, and he has or will do it;" he made some further remarks,
and then went into
the College. I did not see Prof W. again on that day ; I came up North
Grove street, turned
down toward the jail lands, and had stood there about three minutes when W.
came up-. he
might have come up North Grove street without my knowing it; when he
accosted me he shook
and held me by the hand .during the whole time of the interview ; I thought
it was rather sin-
gular behavior; I was not much acquainted ; he said he had trusted the
mortgage deed with Dr.
,~ ; he said also °' I have got the note"
Cross-examined-I was searching for Dr. Parkma.n at the time, but did not
mention it at the
time of the interview ; Prof. Webster said he went to church in the
forenoon,,.and had come,in
tp see the Parkman family in the afternoon, about the disappearance of the
doctor; he did not
tell me how he came in from Cambridge.
Forty-second Witness-Dr. FRANCIS PARKMAN, brother of Dr. George Parkman,
called-
Have known Prof. Webster from his boyhood ; his father's family attended my
church at ,the
North End; I also was acquainted with him while at Collep, and leave
visited the professor till
V4thin two month's of the disappearance of my brother; I baptized the
grandchild of Professor
Webster at Cambridge, I think the latter part of September, 1849, at the
request of the family
At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the day of my brother's
disappearance, Prof. W. called at
my house; none of the family bad been to church that day; Prof. W. came in,
and without
making customary salutations, said, " I have come to tell you that I saw,
your brother on Friday
last, about 1 1-2 o'clock and paid him some money.
1° I didn't come over before, because I didn't see the notice in the papers
till Saturday night,
and I thought you would beat church in the morning." Someone in the room
said," Then you
ate the gentleinan who came to see George, and made an appointment with him
on Friday morn-
ing ?" Pro f. W. replied, '° Yes, I am the one." i said, " We are very glad
that we now know
who the person was who called that day to make the appointment with Geor a
(Dr. George Park-
man); we feared he might have been betrayed by some one who had lure him to
East Cam-
bridge and there destroyed him." Prof. Webster said °1 I saw him at
half-past I in the Colle e.
and paid him $483 and some cents; he (Dr. George P.) seized the money and
took out a bun'qge
of papers, from which he selected one and dashed a pen across it in a wild
and singular manner.
I (Prof. W.) accompanied him to the gate, and left him going out; he (Dr.
George P.) said ha
would go to Cambridge and discharge the mortgage."
We questioned Prof. W. upon the behavior of my brother, and the professor
made some es
ticulations in order to convey to us an idea of the manner in which my
brother had behave at
the interview. After some further conversation Prof. W. left the house. I
thought he (groŁ
W.) manifested a most singular' behavior; his interview with the family
appeared to be merely
*business one, and be manifested no sympathy with our distress ; he
displayed much nervous
excitement in his demeanor, but not more than is, I believe, usual to him.
Never knew my
brother to use a profane word.
Cross-examined-Two men called at my house on Saturday or Sultday morning,
and said that
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