[Coroner]

INQUISITION New Westminster District British Columbia

An Inquisition indented taken at New West City, British Columbia, the 1st of August in the A.D. 1877 before me, Charles Newland Trew, gentleman, Coroner for our Lady the Queen, for the District aforesaid, upon the view of the body of Ah Man, a Chinaman then and there and within the jurisdiction of the said Coroner, lying dead, upon the oaths of

John Johnston, W.A. Handcock, C.H. Hodges, S.P. Hughes, W. Litster, L. Carpenter

Good and lawful men of District aforesaid, in the Province, 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 Ah Man, a Chinaman came to his death, do say upon their oath, that

BC Archives, GR-0431 Box 2 File 1 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Inquisitions / inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.