# Dennis Regan (printed "Dennis Rogan"), of No. 112 DeKoven street -- CONDENSED (reported-speech) summary of testimony before the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners, Chicago, Nov. 1871
# Source: Sheahan & Upton, The Great Conflagration: Chicago (1871), Appendix 'The Origin of the Fire', pp. 419-439 (testimony 'thus far (Nov. 27) taken').
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# STATUS: extract/summary in reported speech (not verbatim transcript), with a few direct quotations.

Dennis Itogan,

Of No. 112 DeKoven street, was in O’Leary’s
house about half-past 8 o’clock on Sunday night.
O’Leary and his wife were in bed. He asked the
woman why she went to bed so early, and she said
it was because she had a “ sore fut.” He went
home, and after he had gone to bed — sometime
after 9 o’clock — he heard a neighbor say that
O’Leary’s barn was on fire. He jumped up and
ran around to the barn and tried to save a wagon
that was there, but be could not. The heat drove
him away. There was company at “McLaughlin, the

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fiddler’s” and he heard music in there. He did not
know who was present. It was a quarter of an
hour, he thought, before the engines came. There
was a high wind at the time, and the sparks were
blown away some distance.