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"little in the matter and did not carry out the orders given to him." The more subordinate people involved in the business were Alves, the man in charge, and Sergeant Gant, the man in charge of the Chain Gang when His Excellency spoke about the danger of working under the bank - on the 28th ultimo. "His evidence before Mr. Douglas is to the effect that he saw the men working in the forbidden place on Monday and removed them." A statement contradicted flatly by another man in charge of another gang.