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Towers, Tom

The newspaperman who wrote indignant articles in the “Jupiter” denouncing the management of the Hiram’s Hospital funds. “…a very leading genius, and supposed to have high employment on the staff of the Jupiter. It is probable that Tom Towers considered himself the most powerful man in Europe; and so he walked on from day to day, studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god” – The Warden