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a dishonorable and. dishonest man. On Monday evening, after the re-
peated subterfuges of Dr. Webster, he calls on him again, and says,
with anger, that something must be done. On the next morning, Dr.
Webster writes a note about the interview. On the day before his
disappearance, Dr. Parkman rides out to Cambridge, still in pursuit
of Dr. Webster. And this was the relation of these parties on the
morning of that fatal 23d of November. The improvident debtor
evading payment of his debt! The creditor resolutely pursuing !
On that morning, the 23d of November, Dr. Webster called at the
residence of Dr. Parkman, in Walnut-street, and there made an ap.
pointment to meet him at his rooms, to pay him, at one and a half
o'clock on that day. That is a fact, and will be proved. Though no
person in the family knew that Dr. Webster was the man who called
yet the whole evidence will show you that this must be the case. He
did not call at Dr. Parkman's house to pay him, but to make an ap-
pointment with him to meet him there at a time when the College would
be vacated by the students, his lecture terminating at one o'clock, and
the meeting being between one and two. Dr. Webster has an inter-
view with Mr. Pettee about 9 o'clock on that morning. Mr. Pettee
was anxious to get out of his hands whatever he had, in consequence
of, his having been requested by Dr. Parkman to pay him what was
due. He sought Dr. Webster at the Medical College, and paid him
the balance of $90, which was what he had in his hands, and there
informs Dr. Webster of Dr. Parkman's threats of the trustee process,
and he then makes the reply to Mr. Pettee, '° You will have no fur-
ther trouble with Dr. Parkman, for I have settled with him." His lec.
tare-days -
Chief Justice Shaw. Mr. Pettee paid him ?
Mr. Clifford. He paid him $90. Perhaps I may as well state in
this connection as any other, that, from the beginning to the end, it
will appear that Dr. Webster had held out to Dr. Parkman the expect.
ation, and that D;. Webster had represented to others besides Dr.
Parkman his intention, of giving this money from the sales of tickets
to Dr. Parkman. We shall show you that in that Dr. Webster has
falsified. We shall show you that not one dollar of that money
received from tickets could have gone to Dr. Parkman. This $9Q,
received, on the morning of the day of the disappearance, from Mr.
Pettee, was in his possession the next day, and was deposited by him
in-the Charles River Bank. His account there will be open to any
explanation which the prisoner and his counsel may be enabled to
give. I was proceeding to remark that the lectures-
Judge Shaw. Stop one moment, Sir. What did you say was done
the next day ?
Mr. Clifford. I said that the amount received from Mr. Pettee
was deposited in the Charles River Bank on Saturday, and was not,
therefore, paid to Dr. Parkman. I was about proceeding to remark,
that Dr. Webster's lecture-days were Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday; that he had no lectures on Saturday or Monday. _ And,
therefore, you will observe that the longest interval he had during
the week, when his official engagements did not call him to the College,
was after Friday. It will appear that on that Friday he remained
at the College till after candle-light; that he was seen by more than
one person at so late a period as that; that he was there again on
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