DEPOSITIONS.

W. C. Carson:-

I am a police constable. On the morning of January 31st, 1904, about one o'clock, I went to the Chinese Theatre. I found a Chinaman lying on the stage apparently badly hurt. There were a number of Chinamen around him. I raised him up and sent for Dr. Robertson and when he arrived he ordered him to the hospital. I was told by the Chinamen that the injured man had been thrown out of the balcony. The deceased was conscious at that time, but could not speak English.

(Sgd.) W. C. Carson.

Hermann M. Robertson:-

I am the City Health Officer, and on Sunday morning, January 31st, I was called to the Chinese theatre. I found a Chinaman on a bunk who was injured. There were a number of other Chinamen about. He was apparently conscious, but was in a collapsed condition, was groaning and complaining of pain in his abdomen. I sent him to the hospital where he died about 6: a.m. The same afternoon I made a post mortem examination of his body. The body was that of a well developed Chinaman. There were two bruises on the left upper am. The right ring finger was swollen and discolored, and on the left side of the abdomen between the ribs and the pelvis there was a bruise three to four inches long and an inch wide and right angled. The organs of the body generally were healthy. The left kidney was torn completely into two parts and there was an extensive hemorrhage from it, and one rib was broken. The seventh.

(Sgd.) Hermann M. Robertson.

BC Archives GR-0419 Box 100 File 1904/10 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Attorney General documents.