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past twelve. From that time, and my subsequent movements, not
being in a hurry, I suppose that I must have gone out about twenty
minutes past one o'clock, -not later. I do not take so long to have
dinner, when I am in a hurry. I formed my impression concern-
ing the time next day. I was examined on the coroner's inquest,
and do not know whether I said I left my house at a quarter or twenty
minutes past one. I did not write down any statement relative to
this matter, nor did any one do anything of that kind for me, that I
know of. On the afternoon of Saturday, Mr. Kingsley came to me,
and made inquiries relating to Dr. Parkman. I don't recollect saying
anything to him, but that I had seen him.
It was after Mr. Kingsley left me that I considered over the time.
I do not remember whether or not I might have said that I had or
had not seen Dr. Parkman that day, before I spoke to Mr. Kingsley
on the subject.
MARTHA MOORE, smorn.-I am wife to the last witness. I knew
Dr. Parkman by sight; but I did not see him on Friday, 23d Novem-
ber last. I told my son George to go to school, that day, ten minutes
before two. He was then on the corner of Fruit and Bridge streets,
on the sidewalk, near a truck. I spoke to him from an open window.
I had just looked at the clock before I spoke to my son to go to school.
My attention was called to this fact. when inquiry was made for Dr.
Parkman.
Cross-examination. My son attends school in Pinckney-street. It
commences in the afternoon at two o'clock. I cannot recollect many
occasions of warning my son to go to school. It is not often; and
when I may have occasion, it is only such natural occasion as any
mother may have. I am sure it was within a week that my attention
was called to time. It was called to my recollection by my son, with-
in a day or two, when he said he had seen Dr. Parkman. It might
have been the next day, or it might have been two or three days. It
was in the house we talked over the matter; and I cannot say whether
any one was present. I know it was Friday, the 23d day of Novem-
ber, and I know that I looked out of the window on that day. I am
not aware who I spoke to first on this subject. I told it to the sheriff.
I cannot recollect any other transaction that, day.
GEORGE F. MOORE, Worn. -I am twelve years of age. I knew
Dr. Parkman, and last saw him on Friday, 23d November. I heard
of his being missing on Saturday, when I recollected to have seen
him in Fruit-street. I was standing alongside a team which had got
stuck in the . mud in Fruit-street, when Dr. Parkman passed down
towards Grove-street.
[The locality was pointed out on a map, and the attention of the
jury directed towards it. The boy pointed out his position, and that
of the team, on the street, at the moment Dr. Parkman passed.]
This was about ten minutes before two. My mother called me,
and said I should go to school, as that was the time. Another boy,
named Dwight Prouty, was with me, and I said, « There goes Dr.
Parkman!" The truckman was not whipping his horses. We went
to the Phillips School, which was not above a quarter of a mile, and
got there just before it commenced. Two o'clock is the usual hour
of commencing school.
Cross-examination. I don't recollect seeing Dr. Parkman on any
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