# George E. Fuller (fire-alarm telegraph) # 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 870-880; uncorrected OCR; written 2026-09-14T06:28:05Z. # STATUS: NEWSPAPER REPORT (reported speech with some direct quotation) -- not the stenographic transcript. 1 GEORGE E. FULLER, the night telegraph operator, was the next wit- I™olsely tbe same as the statement made by him to a reporter of Tub Tribune, and published some days ago. He could give no evidence as to intoxication on the part of the fireman. In answer to a Question pom Fip Marsha! Williams, whether he ramem y?J'yWia2B>lmvl>>g stated that tbe con dition of tbe Court House would render it a good morsel for a wholesale lire, be said bo did not