box of cigarettes

Q: Did you find anything else on that day? A: Some matches I found in a vest pocket; either a vest or a Jacket pocket that was hanging on the same road.

Q: To whom did the coat belong? A: To the party to whom the watch belonged.

Q: Did it appear to be the coat of a miner working? A: The coat of one of the fellows who worked in that place.

Q: Was that anywhere near the scene of the explosion? A: It was within two stall lengths of the explosion. Nearly 100 feet.

Q: Did you find any other portion of the lamp "B"? A: Not at that time. I think the day following we found the other portion of the lamp, a little down the roadway, opposite some rock work

Q: Was it broken? A: No, it was all right.

Q: Is it in court? A: It has disappeared someway.

Q: What condition was it in? A: It was all right; it had evidently been separated for a purpose

Q: From your examination. Mr. Falds[?], where in your opinion do you think the explosion occurred? A: In examining carefully, and tracing the evidence of the force, and the non-caking dust and caking dust deposits, I am of opinion, without any hesitation in saying that it occurred between the end of the branch road off No 6 roadway, and the branch road off No 7; the end of these two branches, between the two, in the neighbourhood of where the last Chinaman was working

Q: Did you see the bodies of the Chinaman taken out? A: Yes. I found the body first. It was burnt all over the exposed, the fleshy parts

Q: That was the last one taken out? A: The last I think his name was Mah Lee. I examined him carefully while the undertaker was putting him in the box.

BC Archives GR-0431 Box 6 File 3 BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. Inquisitions/inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.