The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-05-29

CAREER or QUAcK DoCToR.-The Wash
ington correspondent Of the Boston Traveller
sends the following account Of the exposure
OF qnack doctor in Washington, who pre-
tended to extraordinary skill in the cure of
car diseases:
"a professional surgeon has inst been ex-
posed as swindler and after the most extra
ordinary imposture on his part and creduIity
on that OF our citizens, has been driven from
the city, after being obliged to refund IN part
his ill-gotien gains. DR.. j. +. L Ealing pu. I.
up Al The National, and by placarus and ad-
veriisements, professed ability 10 cure deaf
ness by an operation. He claimed TO be 'ope-
rating surgeon to q ueen NictOria.' and smoke
Of Sir James Clarke as his colleague.
"His theory WAS that by the removal of a GER
tain something from the ears, by process pccu-
liarly his own, the heariL would be grad uaiiy
restored, and be perfect in the course of Il
month. His plan was TO extract from the ea + of
patient some foreign substance introduced
by himself or some dead skin, and exhibit il in
triumph. In this way he imposed upon many.
A relative of Senator Brown, of Mississippi
paid him $500 Tor an operation on her son -
1t is estimated that be made at least 81 900 a
day before his detection. But at last he was
net and recognized by DR.. May, the most
eminent surgeon of his city. who is lecturer
before medical college in Nashville, Tenn,
as the same person who had 1loUrished there
last winter a Il corE-cutIer ana quack geuer
ally. Dir. NAV had the arres ted under
to practice i'll the District without a diploma
When brought before the magistrate, the cui-
prIt begged and pleaded for release, aCknevv-
Lodging The truth of the Doctors charges and
promising to leave the city at once.
He WAS enlarged on bail, and on depos B
in the hands OF The magistrate of $500 in gold.
On returning TO his rooms at the National, he
locked his doors, on pier of illness. But
the news got among his Victims they grew
cIamorous, and on Sunday broke his doors
open, only to find the bird flown. An officer
was dispatched to the depot 10 intercept his
flight, without success. But Gov. Brown
searched in person for him, aud employed q
policeman to help him, and not finding the
man on the train, kept on TO Biadensburg,
thinking he might be concealed. They found
him before arriving at that place and though
he and his daughter offered their watches and
jeweiry for release, took him from the train,
and without warrant, pat him into wagon
and brought him across the State line to
Washington. There he assigned the draft for
Gov. Brown, who left hm in the hands OF the
policeman.
"Wh the policemen We're in search of Eai-
ing at the cars, he was shown Il warrant tor
his arrest by the committing magistrate, and
ordered to arrest and hold him a fugitive
from justice. On the strength OF this existing &
warrant. but without positive authority, he
took Ealing out of Maryland. But after Gov.
Brown left him, the culprit was allowed 10 es-
cape, his captor saying he had no authority to
hold him Effort is being made TO obtain the
removal of the policeman, on the ground thai
he received a brIbe from the pretended doctor.
Altogether, the affair has created quite an ex-
cltemeu..n