Chung Chi
As part of the Chinese Historical Wrongs Legacy Initiative, we’ve digitized a small selection of inquests and inquiries from 1872 to 1934, found in series GR-0431. These were chosen to reflect the experiences of early Chinese immigrants to B.C. – their living and working conditions, and their unfortunate accidental or unusual deaths. They range from a woman working in a brothel in Barkerville who died of natural causes to three sawmill workers who died from malnutrition. Learn more.
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Q: Mr. Gillespie said he met the man with the mule?
A: That proves what I say. He met him immediately afterwards. The man was close to his mule and he drove him out. He was close up to him. If that man had been up the stall he would never have come out alive.
Q: It is marked on that map where that lamp was found?
A: That lamp was found at the bottom of No.6.
Q: From that place to where Mr. Gillespie met him is how far?
A: About half way. About 150 feet from where he was. Gillespie travelled about the same distance, about 175 feet which both had travelled, that is speaking roughly of course. he doesn't know where he met him, but he says he met him half way.
Q: You heard what Mr. Lippiatti said about the toil end of the gas having been lit and it having gave back that way. Suppose that were true. Supposing for a moment that that theory, which seems a reasonable one, were correct and that in that casethe gas travelled to where the lamp was and was ignited?
A: It couldn't do that Mr. Hall, and I will show you why it is impossible. You see this book, on an incline like that (illustrating with book held on a slant). You know the qualities of gas as compared with water. Now this driver is down at the foot here 75 or 80 yards from the face. You see gas ascends. If he could have lit the gas down there, it would have been simply impossible for men of anything to have stayed up here andlive. It would have been full of gas and neither lights nor men could live; they would have been out long ago. You can see that yourself. Gas is the very opposite of water, it ascends.