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...know much about penology," declared State Auditor Francis X. Hurley '24, yesterday in a CRIMSON interview. "I don't claim to know anything about it. I'm a lawyer." Questioned concerning his opinion of Mr. Gill's administration at Norfolk, he declined to comment, saying that he would present all the facts in the case in his report, but that he did not intend to interpret these facts. He stated that it was against his wishes that his investigation of the Norfolk Prison Colony burst into print recently, and that its extensive publicity was due to the avidity of news...
When queried concerning the nature of the record which Mr. Gill changed, and which has been a focusing point for attacks on him, Mr. Hurley stated that he supposed that it was an institutional record of the inmate's activities, but that he was not sure of its function. When asked whether Mr. Gill did not have a complete right to alter it at his pleasure, he said "That's entirely a matter of personal opinion. To my knowledge it is the only institutional record a man has down there. It is entirely possible that Mr. Gill may have some...
...acrid controversy between Auditor Hurley and Howard Gill, superintendent of Norfolk Prison, has for the past two weeks been front page news in Boston newspapers; their attitude, and that of the political public, has been that this is an exciting, and a somewhat amusing, political battle of the usual pre-primary variety. A recent editorial in the Boston Herald even warned against allowing this quarrel to endanger the Norfolk system, implying that it should be relegated to the realm of pure politics. A Boston Post news story on the day of an extraordinary blast by Mr. Hurley concluded...
...characterized as "the one creditable page in the history of prison administration in Massachusetts." He has no political goal; he does not wish to build up political prestige or to influence voters. His only desire is to be left undisturbed to continue his constructive work. The objectives of Mr. Hurley, on the other hand, will bear careful consideration. He is ostensibly crusading against scandalous conditions in the Prison Colony, and has stated that he is unable to find "adequate words" to describe his findings. But underlying this aura of civic virtue are the facts that he undertook the investigation...
Since Mr. Hurley is an elected official, dependent on the voting public, it is not unreasonable to suppose that he is conducting the investigation in a manner calculated to arouse and alarm his constituency. Mr. Gill has been forced to take to the political field in self defense against his attacker's storm of criticism. The unnecessarily violent controversy has already made inroads upon the morale of Norfolk, and thrown a specialized and non-political institution into the quagmire of partisan dispute. That a technical prison investigation should be conducted by an auditor is inappropriate enough; but that the newspapers...