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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...
...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...
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...
Yesterday, while the American gave birth to an unsubstantiated rumor that Dillon complained about Gill's two day tardiness in filing his brief, the Superintendent set to work on his rebuttal of the report of state-auditor Francis X. ("Hit and Run") Hurley '24, who presented 36 charges against the former prison head...
...concluding the summary which he handed to Commissioner Dillon last night, Superintendent Gill wrote, "For more than three months an intensive effort was made by the Auditor to find everything. . . derogatory to Norfolk or the Superintendent. The most serious culmination of that effort is these thirty-six allegations. The wonder is that nothing more could be found to criticize in the planning, erection, and administration of a new prison, over such a long period of time." And, recalling what Gill has done to the sickly thirty-six, the intelligent citizenry will join in a hearty yea. Whatever the outcome...