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...switch in Governor Ely's attitude toward the Gill hearing, from boredom and apparent hostility to a kind of modified and active neutrality must have a very important effect on any assessment of the case. The switch was slight. As the outbursts of Gill's counsel yesterday indicate, it has not placed the whole investigation beyond all suspicion of unfairness. But it has meant this: that the Press, at last a trifle uncertain about the outcome of the affair and therefore about the consequences of its Roman holiday, has resolved to give the Superintendent at least the semblance of justice...
...Gill has been quick to evaluate and to capitalize his opportunity. He is obviously aware that the public is no mean factor in this case, and that already a very large body of informed opinion has swung his way. He apparently knows that the almost unanimous committment of the Boston Press against him has begun to weaken, and that, given sufficient excuse, important units may be won over. Yesterday's performance shows that, given an inch, he can easily assimilate a mile, that he is becoming aggressive, and that he has perhaps started the ball rolling...
...Wednesday morning an editorial on this page stated that Mr. Gill's "political goose was probably cooked." There is ample cause, in the light of the past two days, to regard such a statement as a bit hasty. It is true that Governor Ely and Commissioner Dillon may find it a trifle embarrassing to reinstate the Norfolk Head into good favor and to withdraw charges which once rang so auspiciously in streamer heads. But there is also this to consider. The legion of Mr. Gill's friends, even before the investigation, was very large. It has been treated...
...statement made to the CRIMSON last evening by Louis Balsam, 2G, colony officer at Norfolk in 1929. It has been charged in the Hurley report and in Dillon's 36 charges, that Balsam said these things to an armistice day gathering at Norfolk in 1929, that Mr. Gill was present, and that no action was taken by Mr. Gill to stop the alleged utterances...
...When economic conditions are good Mr. Balsam continued, "new ideas sretolerated. But when men start walking the streets, and see that other men, behind prison bars, are well treated they are upset. Mr. Gill's administration has been harassed by that and by two-considerations: (1) Not only was he starting a new idea and responsible for its spirit, but he also had to build buildings as well, and be responsible for them. (2) Almost from the start, since his was a new experiment, he has had all kinds of criminals dumped on him, men who were...