Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-07-18

lnCuStflnl heIOrmaJofY nt Hutchinson.
FINDINGS OF TIE BOARD AND ORDER OF
REMOVAL H. F. HATCH, sUPERIN-
TENDENr
SIR;-From all the evidence, state
ments, and from the personal knowl-
edge of the Board, as recited to you
in the statement of fact, we, tho
Board of Managers of the Kansas
State Industrial ReformatOry, fluid
and conclude that you have been
guilty of each one Of the following
charges preferred against you by this
Board on the Goth day of June, 1895,
as follows, to-wit:
First. General insubordination and
defiance of the authority of the Board
of Managers.
Second. Contracting for and pur-
chasing goods and material for and on
account of the state without the
knowledge or consent of the Board of
Managers,
Third. Flying into violent and
seemingly uncomfortable rage and
passion, evincing temperament
wholly untitled for the Superintend-
ent of Reformatory prison, and your
confessed inability to control yourself
NJ such time.
Fourth. Ignoring, repudiating and
countermanding orders of the Board
of Managers previously given.
Fifth. Threatening to ignore the
lawful authority and usurp the pre-
negatives of the Board of Managers
Sixth. Conspiring with officers and
prospective employees with intent to
form combination having for its pur-
pose, antugonism and disloyalty to
the Board of Managers, and to defy
the authority Of said Board.
1t will be observed that the state in
stisution of which we have charge and
for which you were selected to super
intend, is not yet O rcformatory or q
prison. 1t is simply in course OF
preparation to become such. In the
hope of saving the state iD preparing
the institution for the reception of
prisoners by reason of the experience,
good judgment and integrity, of which
we then believed you possessed, hav-
ing reference TO the time ut which
you were appointed, we selected you
at such early date and before there
7ras Reforrlatory to superintcnd.
Your actions, conduct anu proceed
ings from that time to this, have
thoroughly convinced this Board that
you are in no sense proper or fit per-
son to superintend a reformatory
prison. We feel, believe and find,
that you hare outraged every sense of
proprie,y belonging 10 the trust we
confided to your keeping The very
nature of reformatory prison de-
mauds that the Superintendent should
have extra ordinary latitude and
range of discretion in the conduc-
and general management of such at
prison after 1t shall become such.
This latitude and this discretion can
ouly be gwen in honor aud intoli
geYce by Board of Managers after
snch Superintendent shall have estab-
l'shed with the Board n confidence
born of respect, integrity and capn-
bility. Instead OF establishing your
self in the confidence of The Board,
your acts have been snch ns TO excite
suspicion and distrust, and 10 force
conviction in the minds Of this Board
that you are mentally and morally
unreliable and untitled for the work
designed and intended to be accom-
plishcd at a reformatOry prison.
For The reasons hereinbefore rccited,
we hereby remove You from the office
of Superintendent of the Kansas
State Industrial ReformatOry ut
Hutchison.
BY order of the Board Of Managers,
this 9th day of July, A. D. 1895.
JNo. Armstrong,
j. M. HUMPHREY,
FULLY SCOTT
Board Of Managers. Kansas State
Industrial Reformatory at Hntchison.