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"that they are quite aware of their peculiarly helpless position as contrasted with Lee Kum Sheung..
"His Excellency did not however feel justified in interfering in the two cases above alluded to - although one of the convicts killed was a man sentenced to only one month's imprisonment, and the other to six months; in the latter case there might have been some ground for regarding the death accidental - it being caused not by the fall of an embankment but of one piece of rock which might have been suddenly detached by some accidental circumstances.