CO129-584-14 Commutation of death sentences to life imprisonment. Includes 9 photographs depicting- [CN 3-42] Commutation of... 22-12-1939 - 17-9-1940 — Page 16

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any of you would have any remaining doubt as to where those

stab wounds were inflicted. It is not likely that the stab

wounds could have been inflicted on the accused man's bunk if

you found the deceased man's blanket in that condition and

on his own bed, but we know nothing about that and you must

put all the evidence about that blanket out of your minds

entirely. Similarly, we have not the faintest idea whether

this red garment was worn as a sleeping garment by the

deceased or not. We have been told by witnesses that there

was a pool of blood where the deceased man fell and lay. We

have been told by witnesses that there must have been a track

of blood along the centre passage of No. 2 hut, but no police

officer has come forward to say "D went there and I saw a

track of blood which ran from one place to another" all we

have is a dead man, a knife and a prisoner; and I think all

of us justly can express our regret that we have not been

given a little more help in our extremely onerous task on

matters that were so manifestly susceptible of accurate proof

as these matters I have just mentioned. In these circumstances

we have to make the best of such matter as we have and there

is not much of it, but let me remind you of what we have.

We have the early hours of the morning of 30th May,

sometime shortly after 5 when in the ordinary nature of things

most people are sound asleep. we know that two people Lo Yee

in the same hut and Ha Kam Sing in the adjoining hut, were

awakened by shouts of 'save life' and it is suggested that the

person who shouted was wong Ka Yan. Ha Kam sing ran over from

his hut to No.2 and Lo Yee leapt from his bed when he saw what

was happening. What he saw was that Wong Ka Yan was in his

own bed, the bunk coloured pink on your plan, and that he

appeared to be rising from his bed. When Lo Yee looked across

he saw that the accused man was standing beside the bed on the

side where there is a door and Wong Ka Yan leapt from his bed

and ran along the centre passage between the two rows of bunks

towards the north door. That course took him past Lo Yee's bur