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entry of the College. He also asked Mr. Littlefield if he saw him
enter the College. Mr. Littlefield said he did not; he went into the
College,and sat down in one of the rooms. Dr. Webster asked what
time he saw Dr. Parkman. Mr. Littlefield answered and said, ',About
half past one o'clock." Dr. Webster said that about that time he had
paid Dr. Parkman $483, in his lecture-room at the College, and that
the Doctor never stopped to count. the money; but, as I understood it,
either grabbed it up, or wrapped it up, and ran off; and, said he, °' I
told him, ° Doctor, you must go over to Cambridge, and have this mort-
gage cancelled, and have it all done up in good shape ;' and that
was," said he, °' the last I saw of him." I did not understand whether
he said the Doctor made any answer to it or not. I can't say how
Dr. Webster looked. I am not acquainted with Dr. Webster's man-
ners and customs.
Dr. Webster had a cane. I saw him put it down on the ground
several times. Dr. Webster stood with his face to the College. Mr.
Littlefield was standing a little one side, and Dr. Webster and I were
facing the College.
Dr. JOHN B. S. JACKSON, sworn. - I am one of the Professors in the
Medical College - Professor of Pathological Anatomy. Have known
Mr. Littlefield since I have been Professor, and some time before. Re-
member Mr. Littlefield applying to me about one o'clock of the day
of Dr. Webster's arrest. Mr. Littlefield came to my room, and said
he could not go into the street without being told that Dr. Parkman
was in that building. He did not directly apply to me for leave to do
anything. He informed me that he bad already partly dug through
the wall. I advised him to go on, and finish the opening through the
wall ; cannot repeat the very terms in which I said it. I told him, if
he made any discovery, to go at once and inform Dr. Bigelow, senior,
of the fact, and to call at my rooms, in the neighborhood of Dr. Big.
elow's house, and leave his name on my slate, if I was not in. I en-
joined the strictest secrecy upon him, in case be made no discovery,
and pledged myself to the same. I came ilome, in the earlier part of
the evening, and found Mr. Littlefield's name on my slate. I don't
know that any parts of anatomical subjects have been used in Dr.
Webster's apartments, and probably should not have known, if they
had been.
GEORGE W. THENHOLM, sworn. - I am a member of the police. My
beat, last November, was in the west part of the city, in the district
near the Medical College. I have known Mr. Littlefield for two or
three years. Know Dr. Webster. The first time I saw him, after
Dr. Parkman's disappearance, was on the Sunday afternoon follow-
ing, about quarter before four o'clock. I was conversing with Mr. Lit-
tlefield, and he came up and said tome, ', What about that $20 bill?"
Told him I did not know; had not beard anything about it. He
then said an Irishman had presented one at the toll-house. -I am
mistaken; this was not the day. - I was talking with Mr. Blake -
James H. Blake - shortly before four o'clock, in front of the Medical
College. Saw Dr. Webster coming from towards the front steps of
the College. Dr. Webster spoke to Mr. Blake, and told him the first
that he heard of the disappearance of Dr. Parkman he read in the
papers the night before.
Dr. Webster said he thought he would come in, and let his friends
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