close to the Prop + a rock lying on top of him of about 70 lobs weight. I called a man named William [Maunel?] + he lifted the body from underneath the rock and moved it to about three yards on the road + then got a box to put him in to it + brought him out to the slope, he [?] until he moved him from this box into another to bring him up the slope. this [?] about half an hour from the time he picked him up.

[?] to questions put by the Inspector of Mines.

I did not consider the roof to be in a bad or dangerous state. I had tried it previously I had never learned that it was in a bad state

Taken before me at Wellington this 11th day of July 1879.

William Morgan [?] R. Spalding, Coroner

BC Archives GR-0431 / Box 2 File 6 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Inquisitions/inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.