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TRIAL FOR SHOOTING AT JOHN GREEN.
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fully determined to defend myself, as long as I was able : I
spoke to them again in the street from the window, and
desired them to tell me what I had done : they called out
in the street they would have me and hang me over my sign
post; others said, they would broil and roast me, and words
to that effect; stones came up very fast. I then took a
brace of pistols from the table and fired among them, loaded
with powder only; after that I kept firing away among them,
what arms I had loaded, with bird and swan-shot; they dis-
persed in the front then; I immediately ran backwards,
they were heaving stones in to the back chamber windows ;
I fired from the back chamber windows, after I had fired
some few rounds backwards, they desisted from heaving
stones into the back part of the house, but I did not find
they had left the place. Iw.is agaiji attacked both in the
front and back part of the bouse; I fired among them some-
times from the front of my house, and sometimes from the
rear; I imagined they would have broke into the house pre-
sently, if I had not kept a warm fire upon them: I heard
them call out several times, I am shot, I am wounded; still
they said they would have me, and do for me. I had various
attacks in the night: I saw no fire-arms they had till eleven
or twelve in the night; they were driving at the door about
ten, but I cannot tell with what; I looked through the door,
and saw their hands moving, driving something hard against
it. About twelve they fired into the house, both in the
front and the rear; the balls struck the ceiling in the room
where I was, sometimes close over my head; as they -were
in the street, and I in the one-pair of stairs, the balls went
into the ceiling and dropped down on the floor; I could not
walk about the room with any safety, I was forced to place
myself by the wall between the windows, and sometimes I
would crawl under the window to the next, and sometimes
I stood behind the brackets; then 1 would stand up, and
drive among them like dung; I have seen their balls strike
415
fully determined to defend myself, as long as I was able : I
spoke to them again in the street from the window, and
desired them to tell me what I had done : they called out
in the street they would have me and hang me over my sign
post; others said, they would broil and roast me, and words
to that effect; stones came up very fast. I then took a
brace of pistols from the table and fired among them, loaded
with powder only; after that I kept firing away among them,
what arms I had loaded, with bird and swan-shot; they dis-
persed in the front then; I immediately ran backwards,
they were heaving stones in to the back chamber windows ;
I fired from the back chamber windows, after I had fired
some few rounds backwards, they desisted from heaving
stones into the back part of the house, but I did not find
they had left the place. Iw.is agaiji attacked both in the
front and back part of the bouse; I fired among them some-
times from the front of my house, and sometimes from the
rear; I imagined they would have broke into the house pre-
sently, if I had not kept a warm fire upon them: I heard
them call out several times, I am shot, I am wounded; still
they said they would have me, and do for me. I had various
attacks in the night: I saw no fire-arms they had till eleven
or twelve in the night; they were driving at the door about
ten, but I cannot tell with what; I looked through the door,
and saw their hands moving, driving something hard against
it. About twelve they fired into the house, both in the
front and the rear; the balls struck the ceiling in the room
where I was, sometimes close over my head; as they -were
in the street, and I in the one-pair of stairs, the balls went
into the ceiling and dropped down on the floor; I could not
walk about the room with any safety, I was forced to place
myself by the wall between the windows, and sometimes I
would crawl under the window to the next, and sometimes
I stood behind the brackets; then 1 would stand up, and
drive among them like dung; I have seen their balls strike