Evening star., 1942-03-08
Arrest of DR.. Beanes.


Informed Gen. Ross of the circumstances.
He ordered the arrest of DR.. William
HILL Philip Weems and DR.. Beanes. The
first two were released but DR.. Beanes,
at Nottingham, was taken aboard one of
the British vessels, which, with the rest
of the fleet, weighed anchor from Bene-
dict on August %.
c. c. Magruder, jr., in an article writ
ten by him some time since, tells us that
DR.. Beanes was forced to arise from his
bed after midnight at the point of
revolver, scarcely permitted to clothe
himself and made to ride horseback on
q rough gated cadaverous animal to
Benedict, IS miles distant. From here
the fleet proceeded toward Baltimore by
way of Chesapeake Bay.
In the meantime DR.. Beanes' friends
we're active in his behalf, and it was upon
the appeal of Richard W. West that Key
was induced to seek the release of the
doctor.
Mr. Key was member of the bar and
a brother-in-law of Roger Brooke Taney
Secretary Of the Treasury and later the
Chief Justice of the United States, who
married Anna Arnold Key. He was born
upon an estate in Frederick County, Md,
known as Terra Rubra. August 9, 17S0.
After graduating from St. Johns College,
Annapolis, he married Mary Taylor
Lloyd, who it is said, showed such indif-
ference for his sonnets that she fire.
quently made curl papers out of them.
Shortly after beginning the practice of
law in Frederick, Md, in 1901, he moved
to the District of Columbia, where he
formed a partnership with his uncle,
Philip Barton Key. He was an Episco-
palian and vestryman of ST. Johns
Church, Georgetown, and wrote for the
church hymnal Lord, With Glowing
Heart I Praise Thee" During the ad-
ministrations of Presidents jackson and
Van Buren he was three times appointed
United States district attorney for the
District of Columbia.
Lived in Old GEORGETOWN.
Much of the authors life was spent in
this city at his residence in Old George
town. part of which still is standing at
3516 M street. near the Washington end
of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which
was named by Congress in his honor
Here he resided from 1908 to 1928 and
here. it is said, his II children-six boys
and five girls-were born. His later resi-
dence, at 308 c street Northwest, was
replaced by an apartment house and the
latter removed in recent years. The orig
inal Key house was built about 1885 by
Henry Weightman, brother of Gen. Rober
c. Weighman, mayor of Washington
from 1924 to 1926, and occupied by Mr..
Key up to the time of his death in Bal
timore, January IL, 1843, after which it
was disposed of by his widow A portion
of the west side of the c street resi-
dence was devoted to Mr.. Keys Office.
AS lawyer Mr.. Key stood in high
repute, and we can easily see that Mr.
West could not have selected better
man for the purpose of securing the re-
lease of Dr. Beanes. which Mr.. Key
Immediately proceeded to Go.
In letter to his mother, under date,
Georgetown I'd, September, 1914, Key
wrote: Il am going in the morning to
Baltimore to proceed in flag to Gen.
Ross. Old Doct. Beanes of Marlboro is
taken prisoner by the enemy, who
threaten to carry him off. Some of his
friends have urged me to apply for a
flag to 60 and try to procure his release
I hope to return in about eight or 10
days, though it is uncertain. as do not
know where to find the fleet"
Key was soon on his way to Baltimore,
where he met John S. Skinner, who was
in charge Of the exchange of prisoners,
and having obtained the consent of Pres
ident Madison, they proceeded together
to Chesapeake Bay, aboard the Minden,
under a flag of truce, in search of the
British fleet.
He went as far as the mouth of the
Patuxent, where he fell in with the Brit
ish. and was courteously received on
board the Royal Oak by Admiral Coch-