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versation upon general topics; Prof. W. took active part in it; there was
nothing in. his appearance which
indicated anything remarkabe. After his arrest I carried my mind back to
the evening of the 23d, and I
could remember nothing in his appearance at the time.
Cross-examined.-I saw him on Tuesday evening again, and had some
conversation with him; he manil
tested nothing peculiar in his behavior.
At this point of the testimony, the Court adjourned to half past 3 o'clock,
P. M.
Afternoon l9easion:
The Jury entered at half past 3 o'clock and the Court followed tt 20
minutes before 4 o'clock. Proceed-
ings commenced.
Thirtay-ninth witness-Dr. E. STONE, sworn. I examined the hole in the
thorax; it was not a clean out;
we finished our examination on Sunday; it is as easy to make a clean cut in
a ded human body as it is
for a butcher to make a clean cut in veal or beef.
Cross-examination of this witness declined.
Fortieth witness-Pr17LENA F. HATCH, sworn. Live in Vine street • have known
Dr. Parkman 14 years,
on Friday, the 23d November, 1849 saw Dr. P. in Cambridge street, between
Blossom and North Pleasant
streets; he was going towards Court st.; it was 12 or 13 min. before two
o'clock when I got into the house ;
I fix the date of the day from the fact that the day before (the 22d) my
husband started for Vermont
and the same night my sister came from Maine r I looked at the clock when I
came home to see how IQ
I bad been gone ; had been up the Tremont road above Dover street.
Cross-examined.-Didn't notice whether Dr. Parkman turned round or not after
he passed me; I men-
tioned having met Dr. P. to my sister after I got home, and made allusion
to his chin in order to make her
laugh; I was on the Blossom-street side.
Forty first witness-JOSEPH HATCH, sworn -i reside at No. 16 Vine-street; I
left this city on Thursdayf
the 22d day of November, and went to Vermont, and returned the 3d of
ecember; the witness last on
the stand is my wife.
Forty-second witness-Wm. B. THovrrsoN called.-I reside in Cambridge; on
Sunday night, the 25th
of November, I was called to go up to Prof. W.'s house ;' I am clerk of the
Registry of eeds; J went up
there about 6 o'clock ; I went into the Professor's study ; he was there,
and I asked hint if he could tell me
at what time the mortgage was given ;. he looked into a bundle of papers
that were lying on the table, and
shortly remarked that it was strange he could not find the paper he sought
he remarked soon afterwards
that he could give me the information in another way, and afterwards he
then looked in what appeared to
be a journal of his daily transactions. Ile then gave me the date of a
mortgage, and immediately corrected
himself, and said, " but I suppose that is not the one you want;" he said
that this mortgage was one on
personal property, and not on real estate ; I then said, I would call on
the City Clerk, and see if Dr. P. had
been there to discharge the mortgage; Prof. W. said something about Dr.
P.'s having been seen going over
the bridge on the afternoon of Friday, and he (Webster) had boon to Mr.
Page's office to see if the mort-
gage had been canceled; I remarked, as I was leaving the house, I would see
Mr. Page and find out if
there had been any mistake in canceling the mortgage; I noticed nothing
peculiar in his behavior.
To the Court.-I took down the information in notes, as the Professor gave
them to me; he gave me
the minutes from the large mortgage first; have been acuainted with Dr.
George Parkman for fire years
past; I have been accustomed to see him very otten; I saw him on Friday,
the-2:;d of November last, in
Causeway-street, in this city, at ten minutes or a quarter past two o'clock
P.M., going up toward Leverett-
street ; there was a milliners shop on one side of the street, and an
apothecary's shop on the other side, at
the place where I met him. [Here a map of the city was produced by the
Attorney-General, and exhibited
to witness, who pointed out the location of the streets.] I was coming down
from Leverett-street, and
going to ortland-street toward Charlestown Bridge • I was on the left-hand
side of the street. and howas
heading up toward Leverett-street; I fix the date of this day from the fact
that I paid for the coat I now
wear on that day, and I had also examined the title of an estate at the
Registry on that day, and was
going at that time to leave it at his place of business iii India-street; i
went to leave it there ; he was not
in that afternoon and I came over again on Thanksgiving-day, a week
afterwards; I fix the hour from the
fact that when I started from Cambridge it wanted four or five minutes oT2
o'clock by my watch ; the clock on
the Court-house said 2 o'clock; the first place I had to call at was at the
corner of Elm and Hanaver-streets,
and when I got there I looked at my watch, and it was twenty-five minutes
past 2 o'clock; 1 walked into
Boston ; am called a quick walker; I went down Portland to Elm and
Hanover-streets after I had seen
Dr. P. • he was dressed at the time in a dark frock-coat and drab
pantaloons.
He had his hands folded behind him, and was walking ; he appeared excited;
my attention was first
called to the fact on Sunday next succeeding his disappearance ; I
mentioned it to Mr. Blake, City Mar-
sbal.
Cross-examined-Am not near-sighted • sometimes wear slightly colored
glasses, because my eyes, awe
somewhat weak ; copy deeds at the Registry ; copying may weaken my eyes,
but does not impair my
sight ; do not know the name of the first street which leads to the right,
coming down Causeway front
Seventh street ; by the map, 1 conclude that it is Merrimac street which
turns cff to the right ; I remember
a broad space near the junction of Merrimac and Causeway streets, and a
planing-mill on one Aide Of the
space.
1 went down Merrimac into Portland, and thence to Elm street ; I have used
a magnifying glass about
a week in order to read very fine writing; I never told Mr. Andrews that I
could write so fine in the mes-
merio state ; I never used the term '1 mesmeric state ;" never wrote any
writing so fine in any state that 1
could not read in my natural state, nor did I ever say so ; I did say that
I bad written writing so fine in A
b a h It e le d n d h he a sea further in a biological
~v r I can
t8 ak thee next Sunday, and he (Mr.
clog a 8 e a 's ea k ~ et on Prof, W. on Sunday ata
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a n a a in ot r d it r. to r' B,
I ned meeting
t t ot r p 0 u
tur st to ent 0
t th s n em tay a h d so r'he con I -ti . "it' i P
~d him th. - on Webster replied that he was
Dr P. ey
B'ake' e tued to think avorabl~ 0, red when h. i e in
h u e then asked him ho ap e
c 0 c t _ . g . - - - p
eda d n r
Prof ~c st.r y 1. . id t '. P _I I. agent Mr. tt. g~
s t get the money collected by
hit. (~ tte b . . . tha D . had led on h Pe ' f. W.) was a d~d whelpi
i s) for the sale of ticks that he had old r. P. tes that Ile (Prof.
Prof. W. also to1dmethatPr. P. had used insulting expressions to him every
time he met him ; the st-
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