Gentelmen of the jury i stand he berfore you because captian Preston is not guilty, to start this Rumpus seen on Royal Exchange Lane and King street in front of the custom house there was a big misunderstanding. How this all got started is by Captian Preston and the british soldiers fighting with the everyday, to start this out the mob of citizens through snowballs at the soldiers and struck them with sticks, this from the testimony of Theodore Bliss and Robert Goddard. Therefore the soldiers were threatned by this, then people within the mob started yelling fire, for no apparent reason, this from the testimony of Theodore Bliss. The soldiers were confused as to whom was saying it under all of the yelling and screaming and then had shot, after the first shot all the other soldiers went into affect as if trained. Then at that point Captian Preston had said, "not to shoot you fools!" Through all of this there is a death of five civilians.
I think that the civilians are to blame, because the civilians are the ones that tempted the soldiers to a fight by throwing snowballs, they also started the fight by mouthing off to them. Another reason why they should be blamed for this fight and that would be because they went and struck them first, they ended up throwing snowballs and striking the soldiers with a stick. Which they could have acted in the sence of self defense. Also after this fact they have been yelling fire, and the soldiers fired like they were trained to do, what would have happened if it was in fact Captian Preston saying to fire and they didnt and one of the citizens ended up killing the captian, they wouldve been in alot more trouble.
The consquence should not be put on the captian or the soldiers at all, they are innocent and had done right and what they were trained to do from the beginning of there military training. So in fact the people that should go to jail or be hung are the citizens that had yelled fire, if any way possible to figure out who yelled it out. Also all the other citizens should be charged by starting the fight and endangering the soldiers. This would show the king of England that we know true justice and will give people what they deserve. Also that the justice will be served. If you to hang the soldiers these soldiers are soldiers of England brought up by the king now what kind of respect would that bring to our king? Let me tell you this, it's not the type of respect you would want to be treated with. These soldiers do nothing but what they are told and said to, so i beg of you to listin to my testimony and let the soldiers be free.
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