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1 wished to close up the partnership concern, I wrote to him, and this
was his reply.
[The letter was read and is as follows : -
Cambridge, October 15th, 1849.
R. SMITH, Esq. - Dear Sir : I will call and pay you r bill, on receiv-
ing my fees from the medical students ; until when I ask your indul-
gence. Respectfully yours,
J. W. WEBSTER.
SAMUEL B FULLER, sworn. -I am one of the police, and have
been for nine years. I have seen the defendant, but am not at all
acquainted with him. I saw him on Sunday evening, November 25,
after the disappearance of Dr. Parkman. I went to East Cambridge,
to the Register of Deeds, to ascertain if Dr. Parkman had been there
to get a mortgage cancelled. I had a chaise with me. Mr. Thomp-
son, the clerk, said that we would better go and see Dr. Webster, as
that would be the quickest way to get at it, so as to get the names to
enable us to find it on the records. We reached Dr. Webster's just
at the edge of the evening. Dr. Webster came to the door. The
clerk spoke first, and told our business. After going in, Dr. Webster
opened art account-book, and after turning over the leaves two or
three times, left the room. He seemed to tremble. He was gone
some two or three minutes, and then came back, and sat down in a
chair, and said, "It is strange I cannot find those papers." He got
up, and went to his trunk, and overhauled his papers. He went back
to the account-book, turned the leaves over two or three times, and
then had some conversation with the clerk. He sat down again, and
said, °° My ticket-man said that Dr. Parkman came to him the other
day, and demanded what money he had in his possession, for tickets
sold. My ticket-man refused to let him have the money; Dr. Park-
man, thereupon, told my ticket-man that I was a d-d rascal and
scoundrel." Webster said, °' I don't care for it now, but I did at the
time. I have settled with Dr. Parkman, and it is all over." Dr.
Webster had some conversation with the clerk, and told him that the
mortgage was on personal property, and not on real estate. I said
we would go to the City Clerk's and see if Dr. Parkman had been
there. We then left. I saw no more of Dr. Webster that night. I
saw him again on Tuesday forenoon, about eleven. I was at the
College, with Messrs. Clapp, Wright, and Charles M. Kingsley,
from eleven to elevep and a half. We went to the lower laboratory
stairs door, leading from Mr. Littlefield's cellar and found it
fast, and then went to store-room door; both were fast. Then went
up to front door of the lecture-room. After _AIr. Littlefield had
knocked twice, Dr. Webster came to the door. Mr. Clapp made his
business known, and said that he had come to search the building.
I asked Dr. Webster who was with hint when he paid Dr. Parkman
this money. He said, - There was no one but the Doctor tend myself."
I asked the time of the occurrence. He said between half past one
and two o'clock. I asked Dr. Webster where he and Dr. Parkman
stood, when he paid this money. He said, °° Behind the table, near the
end,"-that is, as he would stand in facing the students, it would be.
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