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how much h~ , _quired immediately. He said, $600. I told bim
that I had not she money, but that. if he could get my note discounted
at any of the banks, I would purch;ise his minerals. In the course
of the afternoon, he came into my counting-room, and said he had
succeeded with a bank-the Charles River Bank, I believe. 'there
is the receipt I received from him. [Here the Court examined the
receipt.] Afterwards he brought me a catalogue and a bill of sale of
his minerals. I did not examine them particularly. On the 6th, of
June, I gave him $200 in check, and on the 31st August my note
for the balance. He then said that there were some of the minerals
in the Medical College that he should like to keep. I told him that
if lie would pay the interest on the money I had advanced, he was
at _ib^rty to keep them, and there the matter rested ; he has paid me
no mtgrest since, and I have not called upon him for any. Subse-
quently, I was walking with Dr. P., and we met Dr. W. passing. I
asked Dr. P., What salary has Dr. W. at Cambridge? He answered,
$1200. I said that was not enough, for he has come to me to sell his
minerals. Said Dr. P., They are not his to sell; and be tools me to
his house, and showed me the mortgage. He then said he would
see Dr. W., and give him a piece of his mind. [This evidence was
objected to.] Dr. P. left a wife and two children-a son and a
daughter. His daughter had been an invalid for several years-so
mach so that be did not expect she would recover. He was always
in the habit. of buying delicacies as a relish for her palate. He was
more than punctual,-he was the most punctual man I ever saw.
I do not think anything could induce him to go from horne if he
could avoid it.
The Court here adjourned.
SECOND DAY.-Wednesday, March 20.
The Jury being engaged in examining the Medical College, ac.
cording to the direction of the Court, did not come in till twenty minutes
to ten o'clock. The counsel for the Commonwealth produced and
exhibited full plans of the various floors of the Medical College, and
a wooden model of the whole building, capable of being dissected so
as expose all the floors and partitions. These models and plans were
shown to the Court and Jury, and used in illustrating the subsequent
testimony. (See Appendix A.)
FRANCIS TUKEY, sworn. -I am City Marshal; was informed 9f the
disappearance of Dr. Parkman on the forenoon of Saturday, Novem-
ber 24, by Mr. Blake and Mr. R. G. Shaw, about. ten o'clock. Com-
menced search immediately at the west end of the city. I ordered
the West End police to inspect and make inquiry around the prem-
ises of Dr. Parkman in the West End. They could get no informa-
tion concerning him, only that he had been seen in the neighborhood
on Friday. This information was given to Dr. Parkman's friends by
me, and I also advised them to advertise his disappearance, which
they did; the commission to do so having been given to the reporter
for the Journal, who was in my office .at the time.
(The Court thought it unnecessary to go into proof of the fact that
Dr. Parkman had disappeared.]
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