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What is the system on which Watchmen are
employed?
Two watchmen are employed as a minimium for each case, sometimes four. They are supposed to be employed by the Head Watchman. We discovered in August that six or seven of the permanent watchmen were employ- ing the bulk of them. I think they were receiving money for men who were not there and that those who were there were not receiving the full amount. I found two days ago one watchman signing for 60 per day who was receiving 50 per day he was "farmed out" by a regular watchman.
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Q:15
Have you found the watchmen at their posts
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Q:17
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when you visited them?
complement
In my surprise visits I've found the full
sometimes neither of the two men was there. The men are now engaged at the start and actually posted by a European- this is since I took over. Formerly the Head Watchman was supposed to do it. The Head Watch- man used to draw the whole of the money. The men now have to be paid individually. We can't produce the men for one pay sheet the Head Watchman admits he can't produce them. He says he advanced the money and the
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shroff advanced some.
engaged?
Is there any record or time sheet for the men
Not for the last six months before I took over.
I think they squeezed in the matter of traveling expenses
till lately.
Was not Hodge well known as chronically impecunious and a bad payer?
He would be well known as a dishonest man. There have been executions out against him on and off for years. He was constantly before the Court for the
last
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