Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...speech delivered before the Massachusetts Civic League at the Twentieth Century Club yesterday afternoon, Sanford Bates, United States Director of the Bureau of Prisons, styled Howard B. Gill '13, whithdrawn superintendent of Norfolk Prison as "guiltless," and outlined as ideal, a program which coincides almost exactly with that being conducted at Norfolk...
...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...
According to a communication received from the office of Superintendent Howard B. Gill '13, withdrawn Superintendent of Nerfolk Prison, a mass meeting discussion of the Norfolk Investigation will be held at the Old South Meeting House in Boston next week. The specific date will not be set definitely until Governor Ely returns to town, and has been given an invitation to attend...
...from the great metropolis. At first the revelations were the usual stories of graft, bribery, and corruption, which were exceptional only for the scale upon which they were operated, but since Mayor LaGuardia's inauguration the investigations have assumed a more serious aspect. The first tales about Welfare Island Prison were not surprising and in part were almost amusing, but now that Paul Blanshard has focused his attention upon the City Home for the Aged, the daily investigation reports are weighted with testimony of criminal neglect, cruelty, robbery, and assault...