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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...
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...
Approached after the meeting, Mr. Bates refused to comment, directly upon the Norfolk case saying, "I have a high personal regard for Mr. Gill, but, since I have been away from the scene of action, I do not wish to discuss the merits of this particular case...
...borrow from Gilbert and Sullivan, is not a happy one." And again that "if prisons exist for the sole purpose of being agreeable, then the best citizens ought to be in them. If they exist in order to be primarily disagreeable, then we should certainly fire Mr. Gill. That, however, is not part of his policy...
...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...