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officials and talked with many of the guards. He also went into the cell building, went from cell to cell and talked with the inmates, and asked how Warden Delahunty had treated them. No one spoke a word against the warden, everyone deplored his tragic death and many of them, added: "We hope they catch the murderers." "Old Jim was on the square" some of them said, and others said: "Governor, don't think we are all like Shorty Gray and his two pals." When speaking of the warden, several of these men broke down and cried bitterly. The life timers, and the long term men were especially grief-stricken.

The talk with these men convinced the governor more than ever that Warden Delahunty had not been cruel to them. During the day he gave out a statement as follows:

"I had full confidence in Warden Delahunty and nothing I have found during my investigation at the prison has shaken it.

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I found no general discontent among the prisoners. Any disinterested person passing down the line could hear just one sentiment - that of universal regret over the untimely fate of the warden and his assistants. It is positively and undoubtedly true, as I believe, that the criticisms which have been showered upon the penitentiary management were instrumental in rendering discipline at the institution less stringent than it would otherwise have been. Some safeguards were removed which should have been continued in force. If any proper criticism is to be made of Warden Delahunty's administration, it would be that too much leniency was shown the convicts and that was probably due in part to his desire not to offend public sentiment, in view of the stories which have been published about harsh treatment of the men.

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are concerned, those of Warden Delahunty's administration are simply a continuance of those under former regimes and some of the assistants have been there for fifteen and twenty years."

The governor also made a long list of recommendations, including a reformatory for the first offenders, a separate residence for the warden outside the walls, segregation and classification of the convicts, enlarged and more modern buildings, an alarm system and up-to-date gates and locks. He also announced that he would appoint as warden, a man who possesses much executive and administrative ability, who will be firm and yet kind.

I always was, and always shall be, a great admirer of Governor Aldrich. As a man, he is true, good and sincere; as a governor, he worked hard and earnestly for the public welfare; to him everybody, rich and poor, looked alike. Notwithstanding the heavy burdens placed upon him,