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by my husband going to Vermont on the morning of the 22d. That
very day my sister came down from Maine; and the next day I went
up to South End, towards Roxbury, to tell my sister's daughter of it,
and I was returning when I met Dr. Parkman. I mentioned it after
1 heard he was missing, and remarked that he could not have been
gone a great while, for I had seen him the afternoon before.
Cross-examination. I don't know but that Dr. Parkman turned
round; I was not his keeper. I mentioned to my sister, after I got
into the house, that I had met °° Chin," so as to draw a smile, as she
was low-spirited, and also because he was the only person I met that
I knew. She asked who 1 meant, and I told her Dr. Parkman. I
said " Chin," because he had such a long chin, and I wanted to make
her smile. I had not seen Dr. Parkman before for some time. I
met him in Cambridge-street. He. was on the same side-walk-on
the right-hand side going down. I don't know whether he turned
down Blossom-street or not. It was sometime in the afternoon I
mentioned it to my sister, but I can't say what time.
JOSEPH HATCH, sworn. -I reside at No. 15, Vine-street. I went away
from the city on Thursday, the 22d day of November. I went to
Corinth, in the State of Vermont. I returned on Monday, the 3d of
December. The person last on the stand is my wife.
WILLIAM V. THOMPSON, sworn. -I reside in East Cambridge. I am
clerk in the office of the Registry of Deeds. I went to Prof. Web-
ster's house, Sunday evening, with Mr. Fuller. I should think it
was six o'clock. We went to see the date of the mortgage he had
paid the preceding Friday. A young lady opened the door. I went
into Dr. Webster's study. I asked him if he recollected the time the
mortgage was given. He said, if we would wait a moment or two, he
would get it. He looked into his trunk on the floor, and remarked
that it was strange he could not find the paper. He then said he
could give me the information another way. He then read from a
book I supposed a journal, and gave the date of a mortgage ; and cor-
rected himself instantly, and said that was not the date I wanted. I
then told him that I wanted the date of the mortgage he paid the
money on on Friday. He gave the date, and it proved to be on per-
sonal property. I then said I would call at the City Clerk's. There
were two mortgages, and I made a minute of them, and went to Mr.
Blake's. That was all about the mortgage. There was other con-
versation, but not about this. Dr. Webster said that he had called
over to see Dr. Francis Parkman, and that he had told him that he
was the gentleman who had an interview with his brother on the
Friday of his disappearance. He also said, when he came over, he
called at the toll-house, and asked the toll-keeper if he had seen Dr.
Parkman, as he heard he had. He said, also, that he called at Mr.
Page's, to see if Dr. Parkman had cancelled the mortgage. He said
that he did not find Mr. Page at home, and was not aware that his com-
munion-day came on the last Sabbath, instead of the first, in the month.
He said he ascertained that the mortgage had not been cancelled. I
said that we would call at Mr. Page's office and see, as Mr. Page
might have overlooked it. I left the house. I saw nothing of any
trembling. I conversed with him, and noticed nothing except the
wrong date. The first date he gave me was that of the large mort-
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