Investigator 4: JOB DESCRIPTION
Your job is to discover the truth by carefully examining the testimonies of citizens who were involved in the incident.
Also examine a picture of the event.
Follow the clues to lead you to the truth. Remember that these accounts may be biased.
Write down your discoveries in your evidence log. Please try to be as complete in your records as possible.
Ebenezer Bridgham's Statement
They stood with their pieces (guns) before them, to defend themselves; and as soon as they had placed themselves, a party (group), about twelve in number, with sticks in their hands, who stood in the middle of the street, gave three cheers, and immediately surrounded the soldiers, and struck upon their guns with their sticks, and passed along the front of the soldiers, towards Royal-Exchange-lane, striking the soldiers' guns as they passed. I saw the people near me on the left, strike the soldiers' guns, daring them to fire, and called them cowardly rascals, for bringing arms against the men.
John Wilme's Statement
I, John Wilme, of lawful age, testify that about ten days before the late massacre, Christopher Rumbly of the 14th regiment, was at my house [and] did talk very much against the town, and said if there should be any interruption, that the grenadier's company was to march up King street . . . and that he had been in many a battle. He did not know but he might be soon in one here and that if he was, he would level his piece (gun) so as not to miss; and said that the blood would soon run int he streets of Boston.
Paul Revere's Engraving
