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| − | Charlie Sing Chong, Chinatown, Cumberland
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| − | serves [?] as Interpreter :-
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| − | Sam Dow sworn said :-
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| − | My name is Sam Dow, I live at
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| − | Chinatown, my occupation is coal
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| − | miner :-
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| − | I knew young Gow, I last saw him alive
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| − | at quarter to two this morning in the
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| − | No 4 [?] mine of the Canadian Collieries,
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| − | he was pulling a stringer up I saw some
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| − | coal dust falling & I called Young
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| − | Gow to come out, then a big case [?] of
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| − | rocks & coal came down & covered up
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| − | Yong Gow - then I called Yee Tuen [?]
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| − | to help get him out, & Yee Tuen & I
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| − | pulled the rock away & took [?] Young Gow
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| − | out, he was then dead.
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| − | I then got an empty car & took Young
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| − | Gow to the pit [?] head & called the line[?] boss.
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| − | The accident took place on No 1n [?] Stall,
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| − | 2n [?] west level No 1 slope, No 4 mine.
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| − | I was helping Young gow to put the stringer
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| − | up - the side on which Young Gow was
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| − | standing was where the stringer caved [?] in.
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| − | By Ho Jay [?] :-
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| − | Young Gow (crossed out) started to come
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| − | out when I called but got caught.
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| − | By Inspector Jackson:-
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| − | My occupation is not coal miner, I am
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| − | a timberman.
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| − | By Cons. Dawley:-
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| − | I called Yee Tuen & came back to help get [?]
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| − | Young Gow out within a minute after
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| − | the accident
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