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WILLIAM WEMMS AND SEVEN OTHERS. 453

Andrew. Am Oliver Wen-
dell’s negro; on the evening of
the fifth March was at home;
heard the bells ring, and went to
the gate, and saw one of my se-
quaintances; I asked him what
was the matter; he said the sol-
diers were fighting, had got eut-
lasses, and were killing every-
body, and that one of them had
struck him on the arm, and al-
most eut it off; told me I had
best not go down; I said a good
club was better than a cutless,
and he had better go down and
see if he eould not eut some, too;
went to the Town House; saw
the sentinela placed at the main
guard, standing by Mr, Bowe’s
corner; numbers of boys on the
other side of the way were
throwing snowballs at them; the
sentinels were enraged and
swearing at the boys; the boys
ealled them “lobsters,” “bloody
backs,” and hallooed, “who buys
lohsters$” I heard three cheers
given in King street, and went
down to the whipping-post and
stood by Waldo’s shop; saw 4
number of people round the sen-
tinel at the Custom House;
there were also a number of peo-
Ple who stood where I did, and
were picking up pieces of sea
coal that had been thrown ott
thereabont, and snowballs, and
throwing them over at the sen-
tinel; two or three boys ran ont
from among the people, and
eried, “we have got his gun
away, and now we will have
him”; heard three cheers given
by the people at the Custom
House; saw a file of men, with
an officer with laced hat on be-
fore them; the officer said some-
thing to them, and they filed off
down the street to the Custom
House; as soon as they got there

the people gave three cheers;
heard somebody buzsa and say,
“bere ia old Murray with the
riot act,” and they began to pelt
with snowballs; he turned about
and said, “you damned lobster,
bloody back, are you going to
stab met” the soldier said, “by
God, I will’; somebody | took
hold of me by the shoulder end
told me toe go home, or I should
be hurt; at the same time there
‘were a number of people towards
the Town House, who said, come
away and let the guard alone,
you have nothing at all to do
with them; saw the officer stand-
ing before the men, and one or
two persons engaged in talk
with him; a number were jump-
ing on the backs of those that
were talking ‘with the officer, to
get as near as they could; a man
who waa talking with the offleer
turned about quiek to the peo-
ple, and said, “Damn him, be is
going to fire”; upon that they
gave a shout, end eried out, “Are
and be damned, ‘who cares for
you, you dare not fire”; and he-
gan to throw snowballs, and
other things which then flew very
thick; saw two of three of them
bit, one struck a grenadier on
the hat; as the soldiers were
pushing with their guns back
and forth, they etruck their guns,
and one hit a grenadier on the
fingers; the Reople up at the
town house called again, “eoma
away, come away”; a stout man

near me, and right before
the grenadiers, as they pushed
with their bayonets ‘with the
Tength of their arms, kept strik-
ing on their guna; the people
seamed to be leaving the sol-
diers, and to turn from them,
when there eame down a num-
ber from Jaekson’s corner huz-

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