Judge — October 13, 1928 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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Boston Massacre “*Fire if you dare, fire and be damned!” An icy snowball thudded against Captain Preston's well-tailored rics. Trembling with rage. he cautioned his men: “Hold your peace!” group of shivering idlers on the Boston street rapidly became, aimob, The mob pressed closer. ‘‘Lobster-backs!" jeered one Crispus Attucks, coffee-hued blacka- moor. Then cat-calls, vile and insulting epithets, followed by a volley of hard-packed snowballs, some rock-pitted. The Redcoats made little noises with their guns. “Hold your peace!” cried Captain Preston. They did; but the mob, now one great stupid animal, got louder, and the big-lipped Negro bolder Soon he found a smooth pine board, raised it. thwacked a soldier's rump. The Redcoat turned. point-blanked his musket in Attucks’ face. Spit! Flash! Crack! Negro Attucks screeched, fell dead Other muskets spat and flashed. The mob recoiled in panic, leaving a sprawl of bodies in the street Blood oozed on the dirty snow. The soldiers. now ashamed, stood quiet. Captain Preston walked down the line, struck up their guns. But it was too late to pretend that Massa- o Drums beat, issued from the chusetts had not defied its King. bells tolled, more Redcoats barracks. “*The Governor! The Governor!” . Act- ing-Governor Hutchison, white face set in hard lines, shouldered through the mob. ‘‘Captain Preston, what means this?’ he thundered. “Consider yourself and your men under arrest. sir.’ To the mob: ‘‘Disperse at once, to your homes.” So, in part, TIME would have reported the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770, under the reign of King George III. Nor would TIME have omitted the events aggravating the affray— the townsmen’s just resentment at the presence of two British regiments in the free capital of a loyal province, their just rage at having to pay for Redcoat board and keep. So, too, would TIME have reported the turbu- lent mass-meeting of the day after: how Samuel Adams, popular emissary, forced Acting-Governor Hutchison to withdraw the troops to Castle Wil- liam in the harbor. TIME would have stressed the subsequent trial of Captain Preston and his men; how Josiah Quincy and John Adams, patriots both. astute lawyers, defended the soldiers, that even-handed justice might be done. Cultivated Americans, impatient with cheap sensationalism and windy bias, turn increasingly to publications edited in the historical spirit. These publi- cations, fair-dealing, vigorously impartial, devote themselves to the public weal in the sense that they report what they see, serve no masters, fear no groups. TIME The Weekly Newsmagarine NEW YORK CHICAGO