# Henry Bulwinkle
# Testimony before the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners, session of Friday 1 Dec. 1871 (day 8), as reported in the Chicago Tribune of 1871-12-02, page 4
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# STATUS: NEWSPAPER REPORT (reported speech with some direct quotation) -- not the stenographic transcript. 

HENRY nULWINKLE,
Foreman of tho Insurance Fire Patrol, took tho
chair. The third alarm was given at 9:15. He
started out with his men at the third alarm. Ho
took the Gund’s stream from some citizens who
were using it on Bateham’s mill, and carried it
until they shut down and pulled off. The tiro
broke out under the Gund, from a lumber pile,
and she was moved to a place of safety. Ho pro
posed doing some blowing up, and Williams told
lam io go ahead. He then met Mr. Hildreth,
from which point his story was substantially that
of the gentleman named, till tho unloading of tho
powder. Ex-Alderman Hildreth Ihttl a con
versation with Williams previous to tho latter’s
sending him for powder. Later, he went to
The Tribune Building and dlscliarged sixtecuor
eighteen -leharges of tho Babcocks, but without
success, into the basement. Me dicker’s Theatre
then caught from the basement. He turned his
attention to saving trunks. He got 510 for doing
so, though he did not go into die business with
the anticipation of making much money.