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TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1931.me

POTTINGER STREET FIRE INQUEST.

SERGT. WILLIAMSON COMMENDED.

SLUM REBUILDING.

Sergeant W. W. Williamson Wax highly commended for his gallant conduct during the recent · Pot. tinger Street fire by the Coroner (Mr. Schofield) and the jury Inquiring yesterday into the eir- cumstances of the fatal blaze.

The Coroner also made a plea, for alum rebuilding and wider streets as a means of relieving || housing conditions and minimising fire dangera, referring to the absence of adequate means of escape in the Pottinger Street outbreak.

The subject chosen for the in- quest was Chan Lin-fal, a seven- year-old boy, one of the seven per- Bons who lost their lives in the fire at No. 12 Pottinger Street.

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The jury, comprising Mesara, J. H. Davy (foreman), L. S. Silva and Fong Un, returned an open verdict as regards the cause of the; fire and "death by miandventure" that the states hud holes in them in the case of the subject of the big enough for a

cat to Fret inquest.

through; one witness said that. three months before, a tignette did actually drop through the stairs into the basement down the stairs, (and he picked it up; and that people How did the are originate? were always going up and down

-tairs

to the first and second floors

• Did 15. Police and Fire Brigade de alt that could have on to play mo tsouk. The master of deze mater the circumstances? the shon said he had been blamed Does any blame, direct or in-by the landlord for complaining of direct, rest og anyone for failure the bad state of repair of the shop.

In his summing up, Mr. Schofield said: "At the outset of this in quest, I propounded four questions, viz.:

1.

to prevent the Srx7

J.

What were the Teasons for the loss of life?

Conflicting Statements.

to

The evidence of the first and second flour principal tenants and Before considering the evidence of Sergeant | Williamson, to the bearing on these questions, I may jeffeef that the stairs wore noi remind you that the medical dilapidated but had a couple of evidence shows that Chan Lin Fai,|erncks in the large enough the deceased, diql of shock result-let cigarettes roll through, throws ing from extensive burns

considerable doubt on the stater cgiven in the fire, and the object { ments of the ground floor witnesZCH, of this inquest is to determine)as also dova Mr. Ruttonjee's whether his death was dite to the evidence. It makes it difficult to nct, or default, of any person, and accept their story and gives ground what degree of responsibility at- for suspicion that they have some- inches to that person.

thing to hide: possibly some acts of carelessness; but in the absence of evidence you are at liberty to accept the suggestion of the witnesses if you think fit.

· Evidence Reviewed.

..

So far as the evilence go, the enuse of the fire is completely unknown. Everyone in the house retired for the night before mids night. The nightsoil coolie visited Mited the first and second floors between 1 and 2 am, abral two hours he fore the Sre, and noticed nothing

nt 3.45 wrong. Yet

the ground Boor tenants woke to find the basentent ablaze, and the fire getting a hold on the ground floor it is admitted that the shop was # carpenter's shop, and that paints and nils were kept on the premises. though not in large quantities: a number of drums of linseed oil in the basement were sni to have been empty.

2. Very soon after the fire was discovered and the ground floor

C enants escaped, Sergeant William 1on was on the scene. He found he fire in much the same state a ** I was when the tenanta were awakened by it. The time was

wak 3.46 m. Fott have heard feseribe what he did in claaring the three houses affected by the fire.

him

I consider he did extremely mart work at considerable risk. The Fire Brigade received the call three appliances had been sent out al 3,46 am, and, in three minutes,

to the scene in succession, and all the Hongkong side appliances had Some witnesses who lived on the been ordered out. The Superin- ground floor give it as their opinion tendent left at 3.50 a.m. and can that a cigarette end may have only have taken two or three ming dropped through what they describe ates to get to the scene. yet as the broken staircase to the frat already the ground floor and the

All these witnesses state (Continued on Page 11.)

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