[Coroner]

INQUISITION

British Columbia New Westminster District

An Inquisition indented taken Harrison Mouth, the Second of September in the year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Victoria, before me, Charles Newland Trew, gentleman, Coroner for our Lady the Queen, for the District aforesaid, upon the view of the body of a Chinaman then and there and within the jurisdiction of the said Coroner, lying dead, upon the oaths of

Henry Bateson Thomas Johnson Wm. Disbrey G Morris G McKay

Good and lawful men of District aforesaid, in the District, who being now here sworn and charged to enquire, on the part of our said Lady the Queen when, how, and after what manner, the said Chinaman name unknown, came to his death, do say upon their oath, that the said body of a Chinaman was found drowned.

BC Archives, GR-0431 Box 1 File 6 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Inquisitions / inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.