A: Well, you see before the cave occurred there was certainly a crack that gave off gas just as she was working down.

Q: Were you there when the bodies were received? A: Yes

Q: Were there any timbers under that cave? ACB JM A: When the last body was recovered, I wasn't there.

Gerald Lippratt[?]

Taken upon oath and acknowledged 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.