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Confidently and boldly, Howard B. Gill '13, fighting for his position as Superintendent of the Norfolk Prison Colony, struck home with the final blow in his campaign through the medium of his attorney, Raymond S. Wilkins, last night, when a letter answering the charges of Auditor Francis X. Hurley '24 was submitted to Governor...
...letter, following out the permission given the ex-prison head, replies to those of the charges that were not covered at the hearing and enclosed within is the brief that answered the 36 allegations of Hurley...
Apparently satisfied with the result of the hearing, which demonstrated Gill's ability as a fighter, Wilkins goes out of his way to attack "Hit and Run" Hurley. Realizing that although every effort has been made by Gill's faction to keep the answers in the realm of substance, the original investigation and allegations of Hurley were of such a personal nature that the "language frequently used renders this difficult." Also what is now left of Hurley's report to be combatted consists mainly in the bitter insinuations of the Auditor...
Realizing also that Hurley's conclusions come from a source bitterly hostile to Norfolk and the Superintendent, Wilkins sets forth his final arguments in the cases with the definite purpose of banishing from Massachusetts any possibility of the recurrence of the present situation. "It serves no good purpose to place the morale of a prison in jeopardy by an unconstructive attack upon it and its superintendent," the letter states. "Nothing but harm can result from intermittent press releases of advance information as to the contents of a report being prepared by one public officer on the official acts of another...
Gill has recently been undergoing a hearing in the presence of Governor Ely to determine Whether the Charges of Francis X. Hurley '24, State Auditor, that Gill was operating Norfolk under too lax penal regulations, were true. At the trial, Ely was convinced of the invalidity of Hurley's charges...