John Marshall et al
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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Q;- The red lights weren't on the gates? A;- Well there should; and we would have stopped when we saw it. Q;- You swear positively there was no red light anywhere on the bridge? A;- I wasn't looking up on the bridge; straight ahead of me. Q;- Will you say that light was not burning that night? A;- There might have been a lantern burning but it as not where we could see it. Q;- It could not be seen? A;- No, not any place at all in sight; sitting inside looking across the bridge there wasn't a light of any description I could see. Q;- You remember in coming home your passing a man on the road? A;- I didn't see the man; He might have been on the opposite side to me. Q;- You were on the east side of the car? A;- I think the car was passing me on the other side. Q;- But when he was twenty five yards away from the gate would he see that red light? A;- If he knew where to look for it. Q;- I suppose Smith would know where the light was? Smith went over that bridge on an average three times a day, did he go over that bridge? A;- That's the point I could like to know. They claim that when the bridge swung at an angle you couldn't see the red nor the green. Q;- Would you swear that you know that light was not burning? A;- No, sir.
That light might have been there burning above the bridge I was looking straight ahead of me.
Q;- You didn't look exactly straight ahead? A;- Straight ahead of me. Q;- Then you saw the gate? A;- Yes.