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"Tuesday before the accident. He
Convicts were
employed digging in the dangerous and forbidden spot, thereby disproving the statements of Gant and corroborating that of Alves on that particular point. "As, however, Alves had orders
from Macpherson to keep further (12 feet) from the base of the embankment than the spot where they actually were when the landslip occurred, he is clearly guilty of neglect of orders, though not to the same degree as Sergeant Gant - who was his superior - though each on that occasion had charge of the gang.