Charles Thomson Smith Labourer being sworn

I heard yesterday that two Chinamen had been drowned. I knew one of them. His name was Louis. I was near Wm Bridges yesterday at noon, I was on the shore. I saw an Indian named Charley. He was fishing and on his way home he found the bodies of the two Chinaman. I saw him find them. I went up to Bridges house and got a Chinaman who brought the more with him when they got down to the water we put the bodies in a canoe and brought them up to the old mill where they are now lying.

Charles Thompson His Mark X

Taken an oath and acknowledged this 8th day of April 1879 before me. C. N. Trew Coroner

BC Archives, GR-0431 Box 2 File 5 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Inquisitions / inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.