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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...
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...
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...
Three or four times, during the course of his short address Bates made what were taken by the audience to be indirect references to the Norfolk investigation. Upon one occasion he remarked that, "Penologists are handicapped, at every turn, by the fickleness of public opinion, and by what seems to be almost a deliberate attempt to misunderstand the new ideas of penology." This remark closely followed by another, that, "Prisons appear to be the biggest, shiniest target in the world. Anything that goes wrong is fair meat for almost anybody. A penologist's life, if I may borrow from Gilbert...
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...