New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-04-01

Show your faith by your works TO-DAY
tn, Great TrinI-Br. Webster Convicted
Never before. we venture TO affirm, was there
trial involving no political considerations nor part!
passioos which was hung over with such intense
interest by 50 many hundreds OF thousands as
have watched the trial Of Prof John w Webster
for the murder Of DR.. George Psrkman The
professional and social standing OF the defendant
born to wealth, nurtured in luxury, educated 10
the Oldest and most eminent American University |
whereof he in due time became Professor, alter
travelling extensively in foreign lands and bringing |
home wife lovely and accomplished beyond most |
women-holding his Prolessorshp without oblec |
ton though without distinguished ability or bril- |
Ian. reputation for many years past, and rearing
No a family of beautiful and admired daughters |
who for some years have rendered bis house one |
of the most agreeable centers of social attraction IN
Cambrdge-he always maintained an unclouded |
reputation and an enviable position anti the for
mer was blasted by this terrible accusation OF |
Murder, and he torn from that sumptuous dwell |
ing 10 be incarcersted among elons, aud finally to
take his trial for the revolving crime OF murdernS
one who had been bis creditor. friend and beneiac |
tor and, after fair and pains taking investigation
he is convicted Of the strocious, fendish deed
Here is transformation, tragedy confederation |
Of horrors such as History has rarely recorded and
Imagination has seldom transcribed.
Worst Of oil is the oral impossibiity of escsp.
ing the conviction Of his guilt Throw away Lit
tehelds testimony, and indeed all beside but that
which Webster himself has afforded and We see
no escape for him. lie admits that DIR Parkman
came into his apartments at the Medical College,
and adds that he Webster there paid hum sis3
60 receiving discharge on his note whereuPon
Parkman rushed out OF the place with the money
in bis fingers, promising to call over at the Clerks
office in Cambridge and discharge chattel mort
gage given to secure the loan paid OIL. Yet 10
man ever saw Parkman leave that building nor
walking from it, while he could not have walked
half mile in any direction without being rCcog
nized and sworn to by at least q bundled persons
inste al Of the three or four who have been lshed
up, after months of inquiry. to swear that they
saw him betw cen two and five o'clock of that fatal
day. Who believes that he could have been walk
ING the streets of that familiar city at three and
then at FIVE O'Clock OF that day, yet never once
have been spoken 10 nor even recognized except 10y
two or three persons nowise interested in nor int
mately acquainted with him There never Was
grosser absurdity than this attempt, to prove pr T.
alive and walking about Boston hours after he
called on Prof Webster hltlo before O'Clock on
Friday Nov e3d last
Prof Webstcrs remarks al the close Of his tia
impress us unfavorably He persists in his aIlcgs
non that he paid Dr. PaIkmsn the money at the
l.. ~ -.
ar az a trunk az kss deciding icr some time Pre-
y,ou.. but that nobody knew OF his having that
money. nor his taking 1t away from home with lnn
that morning to pay D. Psrkman Is 1t likely that
a man 20 harassed and hunted for money as he Is
proved to have been. and So reckless and improvi
dent As he must have been hsd for months saved
IN money after that lashionl 1.-The had. how eSsly
he could have told cha, sort Of money he thus
saved ana pad to DIR. Parkmsn Yet, when ques
toned by the Police officers, he could give 40 az
count further than that there one 500 bIil on
the Freemans Bank. Is it credible that any man
ever saved up money to psy OF so hsrassing q
debt, yet knew not what Kinds and denominations
imoney in good part he thus Land by snd dispose
Of How odd that he should have taken thai
Money over to Boston instead OF paying 1t when
called sor at bis house in Cambridge where the
mortgage was " Re Cancelled WHY pay cut
that money and carly bone the 500 he had that
dsy received Tor his tickets IN Boston VIII,
hoard ,o large sum by drhlets in his house when
he kept an account in Bank and was in the habit
Of depcsiting small sums and drawing small checks
thereon We have rarely known chain Of cir.
cumstsntsl evidence Of which So much could b,
spared without inValiiatlns the proof OF suil, MOI
one in which thai chain seemed 50 ineNtr.cably
interviewer with the admitted acts Of the accused
And vet Prol. Webster N0s be innocent We
certainly. cannot see how, and consider the pnoo
If marder hy him stronger thsn iioonsis;ed q sh'
unsupported osths OF three fair men that they saw
him 10 the deed Circumstances may mislesd-
witnesses may leland Il IS dreSdiul thoagh
that men have been convicted AID executed On tAs
strength OF chsias Of evidence which seFrsCd a.
irresistible as this IL is the superlstive horror o
Capital Punishment in our eyes that Its mistakes
are 90 unrnitgsted and irremedisble Suppose DR.
Psrkman. some years hence, should turn up alive
and things as incredible haze hsppeaed-wha'
amends could be made TO the long executed Prc
se.sor and his crashed. heart broken family ? Bat
II he were in ever so deep and dismal dungeon
Of the State Prison at Chssiestown. condemned Ii
solitary sbor and disciplinary suffering Tor life the
shouts Of hundred thousand Tesc1ers would Is
upon bis ears in one hour after the discovery Of his
innocence and unless the gates were quickly
opened by an Executive pardon they would De
taken from their hinges BY Popular justice And