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already occupied more of your time than I expected I should have oc-
casion to, and I thank you for your patient attention. But there is a
duty resting on me which I cannot evade. I proceed now to consid-
er, in connection with the remarks I have already submitted to you
this morning, the proposition that Dr. Webster has falsified, notwith-
standing all his declarations; and you will judge how consistent
those declarations are, when you come to consider the statements he
made to James H. Blake, to Mr. Littlefield, and to Dr. Parkman, on
Sunday, in connection with the statement to Mr. Thompson, his own
witness. This last-named witness, under his own hand, has testified
that Dr. Webster told him there were two persons present when he
paid the money; and he now states that he thinks he was told there
were two persons present, though he is not quite certain that this was
the statement-but that there were two persons, one of whom was
the janitor, who had just left. Now, either of these statements was
untrue.
Then the statement he made to Mr. S. P. Blake, about his intrusting
the mortgage to Dr. Parkman, to carry it over to Cambridge to can-
cel it, is untrue. Dr. Parkman would never have attempted to can-
cel that mortgage, involving as it did the interests of other parties.
Then, take all the circumstances under which he states that Dr. Park-
man received that money, and went out from that building with the
bills in his hands; - I put it to you to say whether that representation
was true.
I now come to a more serious matter still. I say to you, that, from
the evidence in this case, he told the toll-gatherer that he had
paid Dr. Parkman, when he had not paid him. I say to you, from the
evidence here, and from the absence of evidence, that he never paid
that money at all. Take the deposits in the Charles River Bank, and
the manner in which they were drawn out, and compare them, at your
leisure, with the account which Mr. Pettee rendered here, as the col-
lecting agent of Dr. Webster, of the times he paid him money.
It now appears that the whole number of students was 1©7. Mr.
Pettee has accounted for 99. Mr. Littlefield for two. Where could
he have obtained the money to pay this? Not from the sale of the
tickets, the proceeds of which he had - in his embarrassed circum-
stances, arising out of an improvident mode of living, which, of itself,
is dishonesty-devoted to other objects. A man who lives beyond his
means, knowingly, and trusts to the chances of making others the suf-
ferers, is a dishonest man.
Take these representations, and take the evidence before you, and
then ask from what source he derived that money, and you have the
great, overshadowing falsehood, which goes to the root of this whole
case. This prisoner, and his Counsel, have never been unmindful of
the great importance of showing where he got the money to pay that
$453.64 to Dr. Parkman.
Let me say, that for four months he has had at his command tho
entire treasury of this Commonwealth, to summon here every witness
from whom he had received a dollar.
Judge Merrick. How can that be ? -four months!
Mr. Clifford. You will observe the Coroner's Inquest was held
immediately after this terrible event. You will observe that the mo-
ment the results of that inquest were placed in my hands, they were
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