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~• <br />lt' <br /> <br /> <br />-G- <br />;r~ <br />also that good and, safe ladders t,o placed therein. Said ladder-Tray to <br />be used as a means of orit.Prom the Sleepy Holler; 141ae through the Am_ <br />ericus to the surface.. <br />(Sided) Tno. H. Talbot, <br />Inspector." <br />On January 6th, 1896, the Coroner's Jury returned a deridct <br />charging "negligence" upon the part of the Sleepy Hollorrh4ining Com{ <br />pary "in not providing necessary and efficient moans oP exit cued es- <br />i cape Prom the mine in case of accident;" and "extreme negligence" up- <br />an the part oP the Americus Gold Mining and bSilling Company. <br />Tho investigation by this department has Ueon impartial mad ev- <br />landed in limo from August 29th to the present. <br />The armoxed map shows exits and laddortirays in Uoth properties. <br />Tho prepondoraneo of ovidonco established the ignormico of the <br />A~ericus turd Sleepy lIollotiv management as to the presence and extent of <br />the drift cued slope run from the E4nUeo-Fisko G00 foot level, mid rnisdd <br />torrithin h foot of the Uottom oP the Americus drift. It further os- <br />tablishos the Pact that :tka clangor from rising water vvaa appr•ociatod; <br />that stops ~voro talc on to determine the actual dw~gor Uut ovririg to ig- <br />norance the real danger vvas not approciatad or investigated. <br />In viorr oP all ovidonco, I carmoi• soo hove orLmninal neglect or <br />carlaaanoss can Uo charged against tiro i:imoagmnorrt of either property <br />mAoar' ignorance Uo a crime, vThich, in a onso of this kind, is not <br />tenable. If, as coratoradod Uy aorno of rho ivitnoasoa Uoforo the Ooro- <br />norm Jury, Gov knotiv for a fast of rho don or mid close <br />g proximity oP <br />rho slope to the Americus drift and did not plans said Paots UoPOVo <br />X <br />_ ,~ <br /> <br />