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X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

saing end crying, “damn them,
they dare not fire, we are not
afraid of them”; one of these
people, a stout man with a long,
cord-wood stick, threw himself
in, and made a blow st the of-
ficer; saw the officer try to ward
off the stroke; the stout man
turned round, and struck the
grenadier’s gun at the captain’s
right band, and immediately fell
in with hia club, and knocked bis
gun away and’ struck him over
the head; the blow eame either
on the soldier’s cheek or hat
This stout man held the bayonet
with his left hand and twitched

it and cried, “kill the dogs, knock |

them over”; this was the gen-
eral cry; the people then
crowded in, and upon that, the
grenadier gave a twitch back and
Telieved hia gun, and he up with
it and began to pay away on the
people; I turned to go off, when.
I heard the word, “fire”; at the
word “fire,” I thought I heard
the report of a gun, and upon
my hearing the report, I sew the
game grenadier swing his gun,
and immediately he discharged
it; this stont man that fell in
and struck the prenadier, T think
was the mulatto who was shot;
the grenadier who wus assaulted
and fired, I then thought was
Killroy, and I told Mr. Quincy
so the next morning after the
affair happened; T now think it
was he from my best observa-
tion, but can’t positively swear
to it.

Oliver Wendell. Am a mer
chant; the ‘witness last exam-
ined is my servant; his general
character for truth is good; I
have heard his testimony, and
deliove it to be true; he gave the
same relation of thia matter to
me on the same evening, in a

quarter of an hour after the af-
fair happened; then asked him
whether our ‘people were to
blame, and he said they were.

Mr. Quincy. “Pray, sir, is it
net usual for Andrew to am-
plify and embellish story”?
“He is a fellow of lively m-
agination, and will sometimes
amuse the servants in the kiteh-
en, but I never knew him tell a
serious lie.”

Wittiom Whittington, Was in
King street a quarter after nine
o’dock on fifth March, and two
others with me; in a little while
T heard the belle ring; saw sev-
eral people with buekets; they
said there was fire somewhere; I
eame up by Pudding lane, and
went in betwean the guard and
guard house; saw Mr. Basset,
the officer, and Captain Preston;
while I was standing there, some
person in the erowd fronting the
soldiers cried ont to the guard,
“will you stand there and see the
sentinel murdered at the custom-
house”? Captain Preston and
Mr. Basset were both together;
‘Mr. Basset said to Captain Pres-
ton, “what shalf I do in this
case?” Said Preston, “take ont
six or seven of the men, and let
them go down to the assistance
of the sentry.” They formed
themselves by files, the corporal
marehed in the front, and the
Captain in the rear; they formed
in a half cirele; I was about two
or three yards distanee from
them; heard Captain Preston
Tie many entreaties to the pop-
ulace, begging they would de
perse and go home, but what
they said I cannot tell; heard
them halle, “fire!” “fire!” “you
dare not fire,” “we know you
dare not fire.”

Harrison Gray, jr. That eve-

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