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THE TRIAL OF EDWARD MANWARING, JOHN
MUNRO, HAMMOND GREEN anp THOMAS
GREENWOOD, FOR MURDER, BOSTON,
MASSACHUSETTS, 1770,

THE NARRATIVE AND TRIAL.

On 12th of December following the trial of the eight Britiah
soldiers (ante, p. 415), four civilians described in the indict-
menis' as Edward Manwaring, Esquire; John Munro, gen-
tleman; Hammond Green, boat builder, and Thomas Green-
wood, laborer, were put upon trial charged with being pres-
ent, aiding and assisting in the murder of the citizens who
were Killed on the fifth of March. The evidence for the
prosecution tended to show that the prisoners, or-a part of
them, fired on the crowd. from the windows of the custom-
house at the same time as the soldiers fired in the street.
But the principal witness, Charles Bourgat, a French boy
and servant of Manwaring, was contradicted on every ma-
terial point, and was worthy of no credit. So the jury ac-
quitted all the prisoners without leaving their seats? As in
the ease of Captain Preston’s trial no minutes of this trial
exist, though at the end of Hodgson’s long report of the
Trial of the Soldiers there is thia note: ‘‘It may be proper
here to observe, that Edward Manwaring, John Munro, Ham-
mond Green, and Thomas Greenwood, who were charged by
the Grand Jury, with being present, aiding, abetting, assist-
ing, ete., William Warren in the murder of Crispus Attucks,
as is at large set forth in the indictment, were tried on the
12th of December following, and all acquitted by the Jury,
without going from their seata.’’

2 Ante, p. 419, 2 Chandler, p. 415.
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