the alley leading from Murray's barracks into
dock-square, and met the deponent, who asked
them if they intended to murder people ? they
answered, yes, by God, root and branch ; saying
here is one of them ; with that one of them
struck the deponent with a club, which was re-
peated by another : the deponent being unarm-
ed turned to go off; and he received a wound on
the left shoulder, which reached the bone, dis-
abled him, and gave him much pain. Having
gone a few steps the deponent met two officers,
and asked them, gentlemen, what is the matter ?
they answered, you will see by and by ; and as he
passed by Col. Jackson's he heard the
cry, turn
out the guards.
Capt. James Kirkwood,
declares, that about
nine of the clock in the evening of the
fifth day
of March current, he was going by Murray's
barracks : hearing a noise he stopt at
Mr. Rhoads's
Door, opposite the said barracks, where said
Rhoads was standing, and stood some time
and
saw the soldiers coming out of the yard from
the barracks, armed with cutlasses and bayonets,
and rushing thro’
Boylstone's alley into
cornhill,
two officers, viz. Lieuts. Minchin and Dickson
came out of the mess house, and said to the
soldiers, my lads come into the barracks and don't
hurt the inhabitants, and then retir’d into the
mess house. Soon after they came to the door
again, and found the soldiers in the yard ; and
directly upon it, Ensign Mall came to the gate
of the barrack yard and said to the soldiers, turn