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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 April 1929, Page 2

Th? Mnyoj of the historic town of N?wsliurypprt, Massachusetts, “Bossy” waf ? sent to gaol recently to WJ? a .tejm-of two months’ ixnprisonrnent, ope of them with hard labour, and was ordered to pay a fine of £lO9 s°r Yip.totipg a municipal ordinance. He was permitted' free" access to a te|QpJipn.§, and he conducted the affairs of fijs office and held conferences with the city 'officials' in his cell. Gillis firsf caine into' conflict with‘ the law tjir.ee years ago, when he set up a petrol filling station in' the residential seqtipn of Newburyport, and ‘ defied the authorities' to interfere with him. They stopped its operation and he was heavily, fined; Thereupon*he set himself up as a candidate for the Mayoralty, declaring'that'if he were elected he would run his station, city ordinance or nd. Hb was elected, and last summer he agaip opened his filling A