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College. I told him I was standing in the front entry, looking out at
the front door.
Dr. Webster had his cane in his hand,-and struck it down upon
the ground and said, " That is the very time when I paid him 8483.60."
I remember he put the odd cents on. I told him I did not. see Dr. Park-
man come in or go out of the College, for I went directly into Dr.
Ware's lecture-room, and laid down on a settee. He said he counted
the money down to Dr. Parkman, in his lecture-room; and that Dr.
Parkman grabbed the money from the table without counting it, and
ran as fast as he could go, up two or three steps at a time. Dr. Web-
ster said Dr. Parkman told him he would go with him to Cambridge
and discharge a mortgage ; and added, " I suppose he did, but I have not
been over to the Register of Deeds' office to see." Dr. Webster said
that this was the first he had known of it; he had read it in the Tran-
script. Dr. Parkman was there said to have been engaged to meet an
unknown gentleman. He had come over to see about it, for he was
the unknown aentleman. He said he had been to see Dr. Francis
Parkman. He then went away.
When Dr. Webster spoke to me, he used before to look me jh the
face, with his head up ; he did not then, but looked down, and seemed
confused and agitated. I never saw him look so before. i?is face
was thoughtful ; he looked pale. I cannot say which way he went;
think it was towards Cambridge. On Monday I could not get into his
room to make up the fire. The first 1 knew of his being in the Col-
lege, my wife told me; she told me that Dr. Samuel Parkman had
been there to see Dr. Webster. I asked her how he got in, seeing all
the doors were kept locked.
I went up the laboratory stairs, and saw Dr. Samuel Parkman and
Dr. Webster, in the back room. They were talking about old Dr.
George Parkman. I overheard conversation about some money ; Dr.
Webster said the old Dr. was very angry. I staid there but a min-
ute ; did not see Dr. Samuel Parkman go away. The front door-bell
rang, and I went to the door, and found there a person who I ascer-
tained was Mr. Parkman Blake. He asked me if Dr. Webster was
in. I told him he was. He said $e wanted to see him. I asked him
his name, that I might carry it to Dr. Webster. He gave it. I bad
my key in the lecture-room, but it was bolted. I went down ,and
came up the other way to Dr. Webster. He hesitated somewhat, and
then said, °° Let him in." I unbolted the door; do not know how
long Mr. Blake was there.
I went again to the laboratory door, nearly at twelve o'clock, to see
whether any work was to be done: Found it locked. Don't know
whether the door-bell rang or not. I went to the door, and found
Kingsley, and they said they could trace Dr. Parkman nowhere but
to the Medical College, and they had come to look. I told them I
would show them all the rooms that I could get into myself. Met
Dr. Holmes on the stairs; he asked if they wanted to haul all the
subjects out of their chests. They said no ; they merely wanted to
see if he had stowed himself away in the attic. Dr. Holmes told
me to show them all around. Went to Dr. Webster's room first; it
was locked. We knocked two or three times, with loud raps. Dr.
Webster did not come at first. Finally he came, unbolted the door,
and stuck his head out. I told him what the officers had come for;
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