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"cases be held directly responsible for
accidents which are
of a nature that
ordinary precautions would render
impossible.
"That what should more especially
increase the caution exercised by parties charged with the direction of Convict labor is the fact that the
Convicts are
obliged to work where
they are sent whether the spot be
dangerous or not - and that they are chained together in twos, so that in the event of any accident recurring, they are comparatively helpless. These points were adverted to by the Convicts examined before the recent Coroner's Jury- and there is some...