Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-12-22
The BcaIe- Case Again.

A third meeting Of dentists was held in New
York on Tuesday evening. Their object seems
to have been not so much to elicit new infor-
nation in regard to the effects of ether and chic
reform as to discuss Beale's prospects and his
chances Of obtaining pardon. DIR. Parmly,
who carried on the petition to the governor Of
Pennsylvania thus describes his visit
He first went to the house of DIR. Boale. The
parlors were very neatly furnished, and SO the
house generally. Pictures of the Saviour, the Vir-
GIN and the infant Jesus were a strange selection
in the house Of an imputed libertine and adulterer
He then waited upon several of the dentists, AS
those he was most anxious TO see. They received
him in a most cordial and friendly manner, aud on
being asked why they had not moved in the mat
ter, they replied /" Ii was merely because no one
had taken the initiative, and not from any convic-
ton of his guilt"
His operating room was most anxious to see
1t Is neatly arranged The operating-chair is small
and very narrow There is little short foot bench
His library consisted of chaste well-selected col
lection. The pink and yellow pamphlets Of the
10th century, Of a certain class, were not there.
Until this unfortunate affair observed one Of the
profession TO him, never heard a word breathed
against Doctor Beale." He remarked that, " had
he been called on at the trial he should have said
that the doctors professional and moral character
had been good and unblemished." The doctor
called on leading merchant, mentioning his name
and business The Rev. DR.. Chambers was present
at that interview and IL appeared the two had been
just conversing the subject. Most warmly did
DIR. Chambers take the matter up, and, through his
agency the New York petition was forwarded with
others.
Dr. Beale was an active and consistent member
of the temperance society. He would not say any
thing against the jury, but that circumstance had
recently been known TO operate prejudically In
wcll-marked instance. In passing through Walnut
street, he noticed Calvary Presbyterian Church !;
being told its designation by passing stranger, he
learnt from him: OH yes, DR.. Beale Is or was a
member here he was seldom absent from its ser
vices, even on the weekday evening" Further
more, the stranger informed him that, at the time
Of DR.. Besles arrest 1t was under consideration TO
elect him as an elder.
Passing to the prison, the doctor was told to OBJ
tain special permit On mentioning to the Off
eials his object the answer was that prisoner Is
never allowed TO leave his cell unless sick and re-
moved by order of his physician" and II appears
that he could not be seen.
In reference generally to the charge, II was not
made until three days after Miss Nudge had been
at his house. A policeman demanded his instant
attention at the Justices court He was locked up
some hours r
DR.. Beale had, according to his own statement
"such confidence in the truthfulnesss" Of Miss
Nudge, that he would willingly have acceded at
the moment to the proposal that she should be In
stantly subjected to professional examination,
which would have been proposed had II not been
oyerruled and thought unwise for reasons that
might have implicated him for the possible crime
Of another.