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composed of
the
most disorderly,
negligent, and insubordinate, Class men that it has ever been
that such
week that the
escape was
was going
made,
to take place,
yet he did not
give
me the
or did he act
of
he ought to have
information, afterwards
as
he did, possessing the information he
did. While remarking that
on
this point I would
have liked to
see, my
work has been
of
the most laborious and uphill
description.
the officers of
of
this Hulk it has been long known
With regard to the observation
of the Board, that the
gang was
sent to work without a Sentry
that such
an outbreak was intended,
and
my predecessor was
enabled
the
on several occasions from information he had received, to
frustrate the prisoner's plan yet
this
me
was entirely kept from until it was too late. With such Class of Officers, and with a brand
being placed
so as
to
communicate
between the gang and the convict Hulk, I have to state that such
an omission was
or
neglect
on
the part of the
Serjeant in Charge. as his Department orders (appended to the proceedings) clearly direct that the Police
are
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