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| − | My name is John C Brown. I live at Cumberland, I am employed as a Line Boss In No 4 Mine of the Canadian Collieries Dunsmuir -
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| − | About 1.35 am on the 20th I visited No 1b Stall [?], 2n West Level, where two [?] chinamen were employed repairing the roof, the deceased [?] Young gow was one of the chinamen who was helping Saw Dow [?] to put up a stringer.
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| − | I stayed with them for a few minutes in their first attempt to put it up the leg of the stringer on the fast [?] side was too long, they took it down to shorten the leg when I left them to complete my round. I saw Young gow again about 2.30 a.m. in a [?], he was apparently dead.
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| − | by Mr[?] Jackson -
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| − | When I was in the space they took down the new stringer, the roof was apparently safe, I did not consider it necessary to put in a temporary prop while they were cutting the other leg.
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| − | The slits [?[ in the roof were not visible, by being invisible it was more dangerous than appeared, I had sufficient [?]
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| − | by Mr [?] Graham -
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| − | There was no attempt to brush [?] the roof, the stringer was for the purpose of reinforcing those already in ..
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| − | J C Brown.
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| − | taken on oath and acknowledged before me:
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| − | John Baird Coroner
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