Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-09
Coroner's Inquest Hears
Last Of Direct Factory
Horror Evidence.
fDJOURNMENT TAKEN TO
WEDNESDAY OF NEXT WEEK
State Com. of Labor Viii Be
!. First Witness Called Upon Re-
sumption of Hearing.

The coroneF's inquest that is investi-
satdng the High street fire disaster at
today'e session wound up the testimony
that will be taken bearing on the actual
scenes of the fire that resulted in the
loss of twenty-five lives and on the
work OF the firemen in connection with
the holocaust
At the conclusion of the morning
hearing Coroner Steiner announced that
an adjournment would be taken until
next Wednesday at 1890 a. m. The
jurors then went to Prosecutor Wilbur
A. Motifs office and were closeted with
him for forty minutes.
Bryant to BE Called.
AT the conclusion of the conference
it was given out that on Wednesday
Lewis T. Bryant would be called as
witness. The long adjournment was
taken to give the jurymen chance
10 hear Chief Justice William s. Gum
nlere's charge to the new grand jury.
which will be sworn in next Tuesday.
1t is understood that the Chief Justice
has been making an investigation OF
his own and will incorporate his find
ings in his charge to the incoming
grand jury.
William C. Ashley chief of the New
ark fire department. was the most i'm
portant witness this morning and stood
loyalty for the work performed by his
men at the fire He laid the blame for
the disaster on the fact that too much
time was wasted by the employees OF
the Anchor Lamp Company in attempt
ing to put out the blaze before turning
in an alarm
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What did you do frst?" asked Mr.
Mott.
Il inquired If all OF the slrls were
out Of the building said Ashley
was informed that 1t was tnougnt
there were still some girls on the top
floor at the south end of the building.
I at once ordered all available streams
to that end OF the building, In an eirort
to keep the bodies from burning up.
The photographs show that that part
Of the building was not burned near
as much as the north end.
During the examination of Chief
Ashley he grew angry at questions by
Prosecutor Mott that seemed to be
structures on the work of the fire de-
partment. He strongly upheld, the
action of Captain Darcie Van Valken-
burg of Company No. 4, for his action
in running into the building to see the
extent of the fire before turning in an
alarm.
why, Mr.. Mott" he exclaimed,
there have been ten fires in that build
ing in the last ten years. according to