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Mr. Sohier. No, your Honor; ho now states that it was made on Tuesday
instead of Wednesday.
Court. He says now, if we understand him right, that he can't tell exactly
when.
Mr. Sohier. Mr. Littlefield; do you mean to say now that you stated before
the coroner's inquest that you
did not know whether it was efore or after the search that the turkey was
given to you? A. I can't say.
Attorney General. I don't think it will appear that it was after.
Court. Witness, you don't think you sap that this turkey was given on
Tuesday. Witness. I don't think
it was. I say it was on Tuesday that Dr. W. gave me the order for the
turkey.
Mr: Sohier. Did you not say before the coroner's jury that after you got
through the examination, Dr.
W. came to you and followed you down stairs after the examination, and
offered you the turkey ? Ana. I
presume I did, because I wrote it down.
Q. Did you write it down. after or before the coroner's inquest ? Ana. I
wrote down the heads of it. !
did not write down half wht I testified to yesterday.
Q. You said before the coroner's inquest it was Wednesday instead of
Tuesday ? A. That was a mis-
take.
Q How came you to get Wednesday and Tuesday so confused together in your
mind? A. I can't say.
Attorney General. He wants to know how yon discovered your mistake.
Mr. Sohier. Did you make any other mistake which you did not alter in
regard to this transaction of
Wednesday! A. 1 made no other mistake. I don't think I have. ,
Q. Did you first arran a in your mind these facts that you have testified
to here yesterday ? A. I don't
know, iL was after Dr. ~ was arrested in that week.
Q. ll along that week that impressed them on your mind ? A. Yea.
Q. How early did you begin to take a memorandum of the facts ? A. I began
#t on Sunday night.
Q. What hour on Sunday night ? A: As soon as I went into my room I told my
wife about it.
Q. It was on that Sunday night you began to watch Dr. W. ? A. It was.
Q Were you hunting round the neighborhood ? A. Yes. I hunted round, and
went into an adjoining
building, and to an old cellar that was near.
Q. Did you tell any one you were to get the reward ? A. No, I did not.
Q. Did you tell Dr. W. that yon were ? A. INTO, I did not.
Q. You say your suspicions were excited that night you speak of, about Dr.
W. ? A. Yes.
Q. When you saw-Lr. W, the day you state, in your direct passing along the
street, at which side, of the
street was it ? A. Ho was at the N. W. side of Fruit street.
Q. Was he near the side walk ? A. There was no sine walk.
Q Were you standing in such a position as that he should pass you ? A. No ;
be walked on the flat
walk, and then went to the side walls.
Q. This was on Sunday ? A. Yes.
Q. You took particular notice of his face ? A. He looked,particularly
pale-much paler than I over saw
him before.
Q.-He looked on the ground? A. Yea.
Q. You now then pretend to say, that then you suspected him for having
something to do with Dr. P.'s
murder ? A. ! did.
Q. Did you then suspect him, you say, for killing Dr. P. ? A. I did.
Q. Yon say you then suspected Dr. Webster for killing Dr. Parkman ? A. I
did.
Q. 1 wish you would state in words what Dr. W,'s words were when he toad
you be last saw.Dr. Park-
man? A. He said that was the very time that I gave him X483.63 ; he then
counted the money down on
the table, and went off as fast,~s he could go, down two steps of stairs ;
he also said that Dr. P. told him
ho was going to Cambridge to ~rsaharge a mortgage; he then said he did not
know that Dr. P'."vvas missed ;
he then left me and went off.
Q. You said that the Monday after the occurrence your wife told you that
Dr. P.'s brother had gone up
to the college, and he and Dr. W. were there together? A. On Monday I saw
them together; they were
then talking.
Q. You said that you then had suspicions of Dr. W. ; did yon state it to
any person ? A. T don't know;
I wont down stairs.
Q. Had you then in:ynyr mind any auspiciorl about Doctor Webster ? A. I
don't know.
Q. You do not understand my question. On Saturday you say you saw Dr. W. ?
A. Yes.
Q. You went up, you say, into the laboratory, and saw Dr. W~ and Dr. P.
talking to each other? A. !
caw them, and I went back down to the laboratory.
FIow long was it before Dr. P, left, and when did he go ? A. I went down
into the laboratory, and
in t e room door.'
Q. After that, how long did Dr. P. remain there ? A. I ddn't know; I
believe until after 12 o'clock.
Q. You also saw Mr. Kingsley on the day Dr. Webster's brother was at the
college ? A. Yes.
Q. Where was Dr. W. at the time ? A. He came down himself, and put his head
out of the window,
end asked us who was there.
Q. Did the Dr. stop there ? A. 1 cannot say.
Q. You say in your direct, that you went in the back laboratory the first ?
A. I believe I want in the
first, and they all followed me.
. Then you went down the stairs? A. Yes, and left them there ; the Dr. was
them s1,t.the time.
~. Did you see Dr. W. after the examination this Monday ? A. I cannot say
whether i did or not.
. At what hour ? A. I cannot say.
Q. Where did you go on Monday night ? A. I went down to Bryant's Dancing
Academy. [immode-
rate roars of laughter.]
Q. Did you try all the doors before you wont to the academy ? A. Yes ; I
did try them all.
Q What was your object in going to the laboratory? A. My only object in
going there was to do the
work.
Q. What did you do there then; did you pass down to his room, and ask him
if he wanted a fire ? A: I
did; and he said he did not.
Q. How long after was it that yon made the examination ? A. I think about
11 o'clock.
Q. Who led these gentlemewinto the laboratory, when they first R'erit there
? A. Dr. W. himself.
Q. Yon recollect stating that you went down stairs after leaving them in
the lecture mom 1 A: Yes.
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