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Show IROQUilS INQUEST. Architect .of the Theater Places Inspector Williams In a Bad Light. Chicago. :Jan. 21. Benjamin- H. Mar-. Mar-. shall, architect of tho Iroquois theater, nnd Monroe Fulkerson, attorney for tho Chicago fire department, wcro witnesses today before the Iroquois theater Inquest. In-quest. Mr. Marshall's testimony related entirely en-tirely to the construction of the building build-ing and tho changes which had been made In It since the drawing of the first plans. His testimony flatly contradicted that of Building Commissioner Williams, who declared that he had visited the theater only once, about two weeks prior to tho opening. Mr. Marshall said that ho personally conducted the Commissioner Commission-er through tho building four days beforo the opening, and that Mr. Williams pronounced pro-nounced It thoroughly fireproof and tho best constructed theater he had ever seen. Mr. Marshall declared that the blind passageway, in which nearly 100 persons wero killed, never was intended as an I exit, and ho showed to the Coroner's jury I that It was not so marked on tho plans. |