The Washington times., 1922-06-01
DISCHARGE.
PRECEDED
BY INQUIRY.

u HuQuIlll
All Given Opportunity to Make
Statement Before Officially
Removed.
-Four officers of the National
Training, School for. Boys. who
several weeks ago preferred
charges against Superintendent
George A.. Stirling and other Off
cials Of the institution, charging
them with misdemeanors, drunk
enness and other serious charges,
were today dismissed by the board
Of trustees for "the good Of the
service" -. s-......
j.. Four Are Dismissed.
Those discharged it was officially
stated, were Capt. e. =. Boswell,
chief engineer; George Macomher.
manuel training instructor; Albert
Anderson, guard, and Richard J..
Anderson, an officer of one" Of the
cottages for boys.
According to the four officials
discharged, they were yesterday
told to appear before the board OF
trustees of which Francis II. Due.
hay Is president, and asked IL they
had anything to say. "Iacn man, II
was stated, was called separately.
1--WE were called in and asked IL
we desired to make any statement
said Macomber, one of those fired,
And in my own case l stated. that
did not"
According to Macomber, the dis
charged officials of the institution
were told that they could take
their choice Of resigning or beins
fired Vs.. ...
III No Charges Preferred.
A',No charges at all were preferred
against any of the officials dis
missed the four declared this
morning. "Wes had previously
been before the board and pre-
ferred charges of drunkenness,
bootlegging and Illicit liquor making
on the campus. Up until today
nothing was heard Of the former
hearing until we were summary
discharged" 'Macomber said.
In a statement today by F. H.
, Duehay, president of the board, de.
clared the four men discharged
were let out for the good OF the
service.
1--WE found that the charges pre-
ferfed by these men against Stirl-
ing and other officials of the in
stitution were without word OF
truth" Mr.. Duehay said. ''It will
suffice to say that they all were
discharged for the good OF the
service"
The dismissal of the former Off
cials of the institution was charac-
terized by Frank j. Sloan, attorney
for K. T. Stoner, former employe of
the school as being a disgrace to the
Federal penal institution system OF
the, United States. LES
More than two score charges were
preferred against Superintendent
Stirling and other officials of the
school by e. T. Stoner, my client. A
hearing was demanded. This has
been refused. Following the charges
filed by Stoner we requested a hear
ing, declaring that we had the proof
TO back these charges UP. This was
followed a few days later by another
demand that Stoner and witnesses Of
his be allowed to. testify as to condi-
tons at the school," Sloan said.
THE fact that the four dismissed
today were conversant with these
charges. and had filed affidavits as
to their truthfuiness will condemn
the board in its refusal to grant a
hearing to these employees and will
be an eye-opener to the public as t.
conditions at the school.
Had the charges been without
foundation, or had they been un.
true, II is not at all unlikely that
the hearing would have been granted.
However, the charges are true, a
hearing was asked for and has been
denied.
Employees who are in a position
10 testify as TO conditions at the
school have been discharged, and
the board has announced that II viii
hold no further hearings in the mat
ter" Sloan said.
Charges are Decried.
Discharged officials Of the school
declared today that, II given an OPP
portunity, they would present the
board OF trustees "unquestionsble
evidence OF corruption at the
school" ..'
In discussing the matter today
Duehay, declared that the ''unques-
tionable evidence Of corruption" was
''old stuff
we have been all over the
evidence before in q series Of In.
vestigations, which have been under
way since last February, Stoner,
and the other employees dismissed,
have had ample time to appear be-
fore the board and prove or disap-
prove their alleged charges, and
have failed to do so.
After full and comprehensive
Of all the evidence in the matter we
are Of the opinion that the charges
\ are without foundation and the re-
Nsuit OF q lot of disgrunted employees" "
Duehay said.
No further hearing win be had
Of the charges, Mr.. ,Duehay said
today, and so far as the board is
concerned the matter is a closed
incident.
superintendent Stirling today re-
fused to discuss the dismissal Of
Hke four employees. "I did not at
Id the hearing yesterday, and
had nothing whatever to do with
the dismissal of the four employees.
All statements must emanate from
the president Of the board, MIR.
Duehay."
Attorneys Sloan and Harry A..
Hegarty, who have been retained by