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− | Q: You are on your oath now?
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− | A: Yes.
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− | Q: Will you swear that where you fired the last shot, both of those men understood and knew what you said?
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− | A: Ask that question again, a little clearer.
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− | Q: In that place where you fired the last shot, will you swear that both the miner and helper understood English sufficiently for them to understand you?
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− | A: I spoke to both the helper and the miner.
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− | Q: Were they both killed?
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− | A: No, they both died since.
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− | Q: Both of these men were carried to the hospital?
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− | A: Yes, I haven't seen them since.
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− | Q: How many men were working in that district?
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− | A: 16.
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− | Q: That would be 8 stalls?
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− | A: Well there were some places with one man working.
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− | Q: Are you willing to swear that both the miner and helper in each of these places understood English?
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− | A: Well they understood what I said to them.
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− | Q: Would you say from your knowledge that they understood the Rules and the Coal Min's Act intelligently?
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− | A: Yes.
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− | Q: You are on your oath?
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− | A: Yes, I am on my oath, I guess.
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− | Mr. Pooley:- Where that naked light was was on the intake?
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− | A: Yes, sir.
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− | Q: I wanted to get that down on the notes distinctly. It was on the intake, not on the return air-way?
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− | A: No.
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− | Alex. Gillespie
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− | Taken upon oath and acknowledged this 14 day of August in the year of Lord one thousand nine hundred and three before me
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− | James Abrams
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− | Coroner.
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− | BC Archives GR-0431 Box 6 File 3
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− | BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. Inquisitions/inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.
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