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Q: You are the overman of No 4? A: Yes.
Q: When your fireman reports gad, does he give the quantity? A: If it is unsafe, he reports it to me when I come down, and a course is taken to look after it, and see that no [ja] damage is done. It depend upon the amount of gas found the amount of danger there is.
Richard Short
Taken upon oath and acknowledgement this 14 day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three before me
James Abrams, Coroner
BC Archives GR-0431 Box 6 File 3 BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. Inquisitions/inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.