Sam an Indian being sworn states

Last Friday Paul came down the river and told me and some other men that he had found a body in the Fraser River above here. We went up and saw the body and found it to be that of a Chinaman. We took it on shore. I did not know the Chinaman. I had heard that a Chinaman had been upset from a canoe some distance above Popcum. I know the Chinaman but I did not know his name. The Chinaman had been upset one week and three days before the body was found.

Sam His mark X

Taken upon oath and acknowledged before me this 2nd say of September 1875.

C. N. Trew Coroner

BC Archives, GR-0431 Box 1 File 6 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Inquisitions / inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.