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sixteen years, [Here the mineral teeth were exhibited to witness.] I think
there are peon=
liarities in the blocks of teeth shown, which would'enable the maker to
recognize them.
Cross-examined,-There is a strong probability that a person who made these
teeth might
recognize them; they may have been warped into disshape or out of their
natural shape, by the
heat which has been applied to them.
Fifth Witness-BENJAMIN H. Topr sworn.-Am a resident of this city; am
employed in
the Custom-house; was at Cambridge.Cragie's bridge on the Sunday next
succeeding the disap-
pearance of Dr. P.; I went over with Mr. Littlefield having heard that
Marshal Tukey was
going to have a lot of men searching for Dr. P. in East Cambridge that day,
The toll.man and an old gentleman were present; there might have been
another person present;
don't remember exactly; we conversed about the disappearance of Dr. P. ;
the toll-man said that
the young man who had taken toll at the bridge, while he (the toll-man) was
at tea, had seen Dr. P.
and an Irishman pass over the bridge late on Friday afternoon and the
Irishman bad paid the toll;
Littlefield, on that occasion, said, I think, that Prof. W. had told him
that he (W.) had paid Dr. P.
some money on that Friday..
Cross-examination.-Don't remember exactly what time this conversation was
recalled to my
mind; have had some conversation with Littlefield on the subject of this
conversation at the toll.
house.
Sixth Witness-ISAAC H. RUSSELL sworn.=Know S. A. Wentworth,
provision-dealer in Lynda
street; don't remember being in his company on Friday, 23d November, 1849;
remember that Went-
worth pointed out Dr: P. to me one day, but don't recollect the date.
It might have been one day before the disappearance of Dr. Parkman, or it
might have been six
months before; think, if I bad seen him at any time just before his
disappearance, I should remem•
her it; don't know when I first saw the notices in the newspapers of Dr.
P.'s disappearance; don? t
know where I was, with Wentworth, when I saw the Doctor.
Cross-examined.-Sometimes walk with. Mr. Wentworth; do not recollect
anything about the
affair of meeting Dr. P. on Friday, the 23d Nov. at all.
. Direct resumed -Am in the habit of reading the papers daily.
The State Attorney here rose and said that the Government had summoned five
or six witnesses to
prove that an unknown person had bees seen in the city on the afternoon of
Dr. P.'s disappearance
'who bore so great a resemblance to Dr. P. that' he had been approached by
several persons who
discovered, on addressing him, that it was another person.
The counsel for the Government quoted a well known case in Massachusetts
Reports in which a
like instance is stated, which occurred in the Courts of Middlesex.
This rebutting evidence was objected to by defense, as entirely
incompetent, and its introduction
eras again urged by the Government, but the Court ruled it out, as contrary
to the rules of evidence
recognized by the law, and therefore inadmissible.
Seventh Witness-GEORGE W. FIFFIELE called.-Am toll-gatberer on Cambridge
bridge;
recollect the time when the clock was put up on the Court House; can't tell
the exact time; it is
said to be a bad time-piece
Cross-examined.-I have frequently noticed the difference between this and
other clocks; some-
times it bras a quarter and sometimes half an hour too fast.
Eighth W2titeSS-SAMUEL B. FULLER sworn.-Am toll-gatherer on the East
Cambridge side of
the bridge. Have observed the clock on the Court House in East Cambridge;
it is often wrong,
and .1 have known it to be 5 or 10 minutes out of the way, and have known
it to stop; noticed the
irregularity in the Spring more than before.
At this point the Government rested their rebutting testimony.
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