11th Witness

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Wiliam Hinkeman having been duly sown states I work in the Wellington Mine I am a load layer I know the Curtain No 3 I assisted to put it up. Mr. Dunsmuir instructed me to work it & to let no one pass it. I wrote in large letters "No one allowed to pass here, fire" they were large enough to be easily seen by every one, the word fire was writtten underneath.

Will Hinkeman

Taken before me at Wellington this 25th day of April 1879

Warner R Spalding

Coroner

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