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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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Q;- If Johnson swears that he saw that light when the jitney passed him twenty give yards south of the gate, you are right? A;- I don't care about Johnson. Q;- Nobody is concerned about your opinion, are you in a position to say that light was not there? A;- I am in a position for to say for to look in front straight across the bridge, there was no light. Q;- Well, supposing he looked straight across the bridge, sitting in your machine looking straight in front of you it would hit a man? A;- To look straight across the bridge it would just about his a man's head, walking across the bridge, that is looking straight in front of me. Q;- You weren't looking any lower than a man's head? A;- Well, I could see the planks of the bridge straight through. Q;- And the reason that you didn't see any light is that you didn't look any higher than a man's head? A;- I didn't measure at all. I was looking straight across the bridge. Q;- And would you swear there was no light on that bridge, either on the bridge or on any place on the bridge to the height of a man's head? A;- Six feet? Q;- You swear that? A;- Yes. Q;- Positively? A;- I didn't see it. I am positive. Q;- No kind of a light? A;- No kind of a light. Q;- All these people are misleading the jury when they say the bridge tender had a light and it was sitting in the middle of the gate in the gate hanging? A;- Yes. Q;- And the bridge tender didn't have any light? A;- Not that I could see. If the bridge tender had of had have taken his light and waved it about the time we struck the gate and we struck the water I could have seen that light. Q;- A;- Q;- A;- Q;- A;- Q;- A;- Q;- A;- Q;- A;- Q;- A;-