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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A;- Well, there is no question; if you can, why go to it, even at sixty miles an hour. Q;- Then it is your opinion that Smith had some right to? A;- I could not say positively, if the other automobiles slowed up just the same as Smith was that night, Mr Donaghy;- He was going across at fifteen miles an hour. Have you ever gone over this bridge in the daytime before? A;- Yes. Q;- In a jitney? A;- Yes. Q;- What speed? A;- About the same speed as that night,- ten or fifteen, Q;- When had you gone over before this night? A;- I went over last just a month before the accident. Q;- In what jitney? A;- In the same jitney. Q;- At fifteen miles an hour? A;- I would not swear to it, that it was fifteen. Q;- Who was driving? A;- Mr Smith. Q;- What time of the day? In the forenoon of the afternoon? A;- In the forenoon. Q;- Had you gone over on any other occasion with Mr Smith? A;- Oh yes. Q;- Several occasions? A;- Yes. Q;- This fall? A;- Yes; I had a return ticket. Q;- Did you ever come back with him in the jitney? A;- Yes. Q;- What time? A;- Came back generally in the afternoon. Q;- Did you ever come back in the evening? A;- In the afternoon, came back in the evening. but not for two years. Q;- On all these other occasions you had gone over the bridge at fifteen miles an hour? A;- Generally about the same. Q;- Now was there any obstruction on the windshield in the inside? Well there was just the Ladner Jitney little piece on the glass. It was about that far from the end of the