# The keeper of the crib (lake tunnel) -- name as printed in the segment
# Testimony before the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners, session of Tuesday 28 Nov. 1871 (day 5), as reported in the Chicago Tribune of 1871-11-29, page 4
# Source: Library of Congress, Chronicling America (lccn sn82014064): https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82014064/1871-11-29/ed-1/?sp=4 ; OCR text https://tile.loc.gov/text-services/word-coordinates-service?segment=/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_clark_ver03/data/sn82014064/no_reel/1871112901/0004.xml&format=alto_xml&full_text=1
# Page-OCR lines 831-837; uncorrected OCR; written 2026-09-14T06:28:05Z.
# STATUS: NEWSPAPER REPORT (reported speech with some direct quotation) -- not the stenographic transcript. See also Bales: Thomas Ockerby, Inquiry vol. [4], pp. 1-8 (if the same man).

Testimony of the Man at the Crib and
Firemen—How the 6as Eeser
voirs were Emptied.
The Board of Police and Firo Commissioner.,
yesterday, resumed tbelr examination, wltb re
gard to tbe causes ot tbo burning ot tbc city.
Tbc first witness examined was