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As part of the Chinese Historical Wrongs Legacy Initiative, we’ve digitized a small selection of inquests and inquiries from 1872 to 1934, found in series GR-0431. These were chosen to reflect the experiences of early Chinese immigrants to B.C. – their living and working conditions, and their unfortunate accidental or unusual deaths. They range from a woman working in a brothel in Barkerville who died of natural causes to three sawmill workers who died from malnutrition. Learn more.
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No 2
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A; - I don't know sir; I know the man if going over too fast.
Q; - What would you say; I am merely asking for your opinion?
A; - I just simply say -
Q; - What you know, what do you say?
A; - I should say I would think the rate he was going was about twenty-five miles an hours.
Q; - In your opinion can you say, can you judge the rate a car is coming towards you as well as a man inside. I am asking your opinion, can you judge as well as the man in the car?
A; - I cannot say that; I knew the man.
Q; - Did you see any people in the water after the car went down? A; - Yes sir.
Mr Ladner; - Did you say there were seven lights on the bridge
A; - Seven lights.
Q; - Two at one side of the gate and two at the ends of the bridge, two at the swing, where is the other?
A; - On the end of the protection pier.
Q; - The only one a man driving an automobile could see?
A; - I could see the one on the end.
Q; - Taking these four lights, where they are located at today I understand they are protected from the weather, so that the only indication they were changing would be the lights suspended from the top of the bridge?
A; - Just the light on the top.
Q; - That's the only one that would indicate a change to the driver?
A; - Well, I guess so. These others are facing towards the river - of course my lights are fixed.
Q; - Was there any fog to your knowledge that evening?
A; - No fog at all, sir.
Q; - Was it misty? A; - No, sir; quite a clear night.
Q; - Now, where this light is suspended from the top of the bridge, it is anchored by a rope?
A; - A piece of good rope.
Q; - Manilla rope you call it?
A; - A piece of very good cord.
BC Archives, GR-0431 Box 10 File 4 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Inquisitions / inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.