close to the Prop & a rock lying on top of him of about 70 lbs weight. I called a man named William Manuel & he lifted the body from underneath the rock and moved it to about three yards on the road & then got a box to put him in to it & brought him out to the slope, he lived until we moved him from this box into another to bring him up the slope. this took about half an hour from the time we picked him up.

Answers to questions put by the Inspector of Mines.

I did not consider the roof to be in a bad or dangerous state. I had tried it previously I had never learned that it was in a bad state

Taken before me at Wellington this 11th day of July 1879.

William Morgan

Warner R. Spalding, Coroner

BC Archives GR-0431 / Box 2 File 6 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Inquisitions/inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.