Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-04-06


note, and then he would have delivered it
over to The other parties in interest, that they
might take their own remedy 1t is very
remarkable that DR.. Webster did not owe
DR.. Parkman the amount which he said he
paid him.
He had over estimated the interest in a
way which DR.. Parkman would never have
done. Would DR.. Webster, the exhausted,
hunted debtor, have done such thing
The learned prosecutor went fully into fals-
fications in the papers found on DR.. Webster
proceed TO consider the statements of DR..
Webster 10 Littefeld, TO Mr.. Blake, 10 DR..
Francis Parkman, and brothers, respecting
the payment of the money TO DR., Parkman.
You will find they were equally inconsistent
with each other and the truth. Dr. Parkman
would never have cancelled that mortgage,
or have agreed to do 50. There is a more seri
ous question Where did he get the money
with which he pretends to have paid Dr..
Parkman? He has for four months had the
command of the treasury OF this common
wealth 10 get the testimony of those who
have paid him this money. He shows not
dollar. His counsel have been perfectly
aware Of the importance of this point. They
have claimed that he took hundred dollars
from the money paid him by NJ. Petee !:
that is too transparent fallacy. MIR. Peice
called on DR.. Webster, Friday, Nov. 23d al
8 o'clock, after he had made the engage
ment 10 meet DR.. Parkman at his house, and
he told him the audacious falsehood that Dr.
Parkman had, under alteration of mind, put
his business out of his hands into those Of Mr..
Blake and that he would have no trouble
with him, for he had settled with him. The
ninety dollar check which Mr. Pettec paid
him that morning he did not pay DR.. Park
man. He deposited it the next day in the
Charles River Bank. Why did not DR.. Web
stcr, hunted as he was, pay DR.. Parkman at
his house, instead of asking him 10 the Col.
| ege! Was he any better prepared al half
past one than he was at eight o'clock for,
remember that the money he received Of
Mr.. Pettee he did not pay. DR.. Webster,
we have seen, had no money 10 pay these
notes. He cannot show that he had any
How, then, did he come in possession Of the
notes =? His possession of these notes, un-
less he can show how he came by them, is
proof Of the most serious and positive nature,
| that he was connected with the disappear
ance of DR.. Parkman.
| | shall expend less time upon the state of
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from the time already consumed Observe,
gentlemen, that DR.. Webster carried the key
of that privy in his pocket Would any gen.
tleman of culture be carrying about cum
bersome key, which he could use for no hon.
est purpose any where else? When asked
for the key of the privy, pointing TO the door,
he said 't hangs there" The key 10 which
he directed was found 10 be that of his ward
robe. Yet among the things taken from his
pocket at the Jail, was the identical labeled
! key which unlocked the door, Is il too much
| to say that the muilated remains of DR.. P.
were found underneath DR.. Webster's lock
and key. 1t is asked why did Dr. Webster
communicate with DR.. Parkmans family -
If he were guilty, it would have been fatal to
| him he well knew not TO do 1.-THE servant
of DR.. Parkman was likely TO recognise the
man who called there to make the appoint
ment The notes would be in demand when
the estates of DR.. P. should be settled, and
he must show that he had paid them.
He left Cambridge TO see the family after
an early dinner, at half-past twelve o'clock,
but he did not get there till nearly four o.
clock, and what an interview ii was He
was careful to speak of the payment of the
money. There was no expression OF sympa-
thy. We revert 10 the search by Mr.. Clapp,
at the time the tea chest was seen, and the
party was diverted from a search of the privy
On that night he kindled fire in his furnace,
covered it with the soapstones and left it TO
moulder away. He had then something else
to attend to, His alibi must be kept up, and
he fitted 10 Cambridge. That was week
of professional leisure. Why did he come
over that afternoon Was it only to give a
turkey 10 Mr.. Littlefeld! Had he any great
chemical investigation going onl Why has
he not shown ii Z On Friday he went to Mr.
Waterman's, and ordered tin box; he then
told a story about mesmeric woman, very
singular for such a man 10 tell. 1t is .ng-
gested by his counsel, that this box was tc
send plants to Fayal, and they were 10 be
kept from the air. He said it was TO put
books and small things in; but why did he
order handle strong enough TO hold one hun
dred pounds, aud in what condition would
the plants have arrived at Fayal, after being
soldered upl His daughter admits that they
were not then about TO send any. Put your.
self, Mr.. Foreman, i'll the condition Of DR.. w
at the Jail, supposing him to be an innocent
man. He there asked Mr.. Stark weather, be-
fore they had carried him to the Jail, "dd
they find the whole of the body? ?n How
could he have asked that, if he had not known
that the remains were divided? Again, il
his agony on the bed, he said TO Mr.. Cum.
mings, ''l expected this" 1t was no! in the
pathetic tones of his counsel, that he made