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Professor. Ile said, " ° If you bad done it, you would have been doing
justice to Dr. Webster, and all concerned;" that he should be obliged
to distress Dr. Webster and his family. He seemed to blame me for
not retaining the funds. He afterwards made some remarks, the im-
port of which was, that he was not an honest or upright man ; and he
asked me to tell Dr. Webster so. I never saw Dr. Parkman again..
On the morning of the 23d, I went to the College, to pay the $90 in
my hands.
I inquired for Mr. Littlefield, and was sent to the front door, where
I took a notice from the box in the front entry and altered it ; the
notice was to the students, and I altered the time I would meet them
there from Thursday to Saturday. I passed through into the library,
and thence into Dr.-Ware's lecture-room; and then passed through
Mr. Littlefield's cellar into the laboratory, and thence to Dr. Webster's
room. I apologized to Dr. Webster for coming so early. He told me
to walk in. I told him that Dr. Parkman had called upon me several
times, to inquire if I had any funds of his in my possession; and that
therefore I did not wish to have any trouble with Dr. Parkrian, and
had come to pay the money over to him. Professor Webster replied,
°° Dr. Parkman is a curious sort of man, rather nervous, and has been
at times subject to fits of aberration of mind;" so much so, he believed
he was once obliged to put his property out of his hands, and that
Mr. Blake, a relative, attended to his business.
After making these remarks, he said, °1 You will have no further
trouble with Dr. Parkman, for I have settled with him." I then paid
Dr. Webster by a check for $90 on the Freeman's Bank. On the
same afternoon, (Friday, the 23d,) between four and five o'clock, I
went to the College, and passed up to the front door ; I rang the bell,
and there was a woman passed through the library, and, as I thought,
was going to open the door; but she looked through the side-lights,
and asked if I wanted to speak to Mr. Littlefield? I replied that I
did. She said that if I would go to the side door, I could find him.
I went to that door, and met Mr. Littlefield ; he was in his usual dress,
but without shoes and stockings. I asked him if he had sent for me,
and what for ? He said he wanted me to fill up a ticket for B. R.
Ridgeway, a student, who was going to leave town the next morning.
I took out the ticket, and gave it to Mr. Littlefield, and left. The
following day, (Saturday, the 24th,) at about three o'clock in the
afternoon, I again went to the College, through the front entrance,
and into Professor Ware's lecture-room, and saw Mr. Littlefield sitting
upon a table.
My visit to Dr. Webster on Friday morning was especially to pay
over to him the money in my hands. I sent to him notice that I
should pay him money that morning. At the interview with Dr.
Parkman on the 14th, relative to Dr. Webster and the funds belonging
to him in my possession, his language was hard, but not profane. At
the first interview that I had with him, when I told him that I had
paid over to Dr. Webster all the money in my hands, he replied,-
" The de'il you have "-or something to that effect. His message
sent by me to Dr. Webster contained no profane expression: I think
I did not communicate Dr. Parkman's message to Dr. Webster, that
he was a dishonest man; but I told him I did not wish to have any
trouble with Dr. Parkman relative to the funds.
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