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