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Although the story's only examples of the political hacks whom the state's new Governor is elevating to positions of power are the men on the Parole Board, Stevens sees that group as representative of the "battalions and battalions of factory-made colonels" now running the government (63).

Several guards watch over the inmates during the Governor's Pardon Board hearings. They seem to know their prisoners well; one of them even warns Gavin Stevens to watch himself with Bill Terrel because he's a "bad egg" (58).

These "delegates" are unofficial, members of what the narrator calls "the Opposition" to the state Governor's high-handed and corrupt policies (54). They attend the meeting of the Governor's Pardon Board as moral witnesses. Gavin Stevens is one of these delegates. Given the detail that this Governor is "a man without ancestry" (53), it seems likely that the group is made up of other men like Stevens, men from families with long-standing and aristocratic pedigrees.

An unnamed train brakeman sees an accomplice help Bill Terrel carry a body through the bushes and "fling it under the train" (59). Although he's clearly observant, the brakeman could not tell if the victim was dead or alive at the time.

The title character of "Monk" is known by that name during his time in Yoknapatawpha, but at his arraignment for murder he insists that his name is "Stonewall Jackson Odlethrop" (47).

The narrator states that the people from Jefferson who get to know Monk first are the "customers" who go out to Fraser's to purchase moonshine whiskey (45). Later, during the seven years when he works and sleeps at the filling station, he frequently changes from overalls to "town clothes" and comes to Jefferson, probably on Saturday nights or Sundays (46). Then he is "known about town" (46), but the narrative does not explore what the town knows or thinks.