Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-12
Shortage Probe
Names BeaI|,
CountyChief
Ohio Auditors Soy
SASS Is Missing at
Portsmouth Hospital

Edward I. Beall, montgomery
County manager. today was
named in six findings for re-
covery" by examiners for the
Ohio State auditor totaling ST.
458.56.
They reported this amount
short in the account of the
Portsmouth, (Ohio) General
Hospital. Mr.. Beall was city
manager of Portsmouth and OPP
Grated the hospital for period
in 1852 when the hospital was
without an official director.
He came to Montgomery
County last September, after re-
signing his position in Ports
mouth.
MI. Beall said today the find
ings ARE simply technicallty'
and that he was named only be-
cause he was the official in
charge. They were ALI known
and investigated" while he was
in Portsmouth. he said.
Auditors Check Accounts.
The Ohio auditors Office ex-
amines the financial operations
of all State. county and city
offices. The findings for recov-
cry" are an official charge that
funds are missing and names the
persons believed to be RESPONSE
BILE.
William H. Harsha, Sciot'
county prosecutor, said his Office
would have to investigate the
findings and attempt to recover
the missing money either from
Mr.. Beall or from the bonding
company"
| Mr.. Harsha said his Office will
have to try and determine
whether there was any criminal
intent. Or we may have 20 pre-
sent it to the grand jury and let
them determine that"
The examiners who issued the
report were r. E. Hacker and
A. j. Rowland. employees of State
Auditor James A. Rhodes.
Findings Listed.
Their six findings we're:
!. Fifty dollars unaccounted
for from hospital collections.
They said the money was missing
from the cash drawer June %,
1852. This was one week before
Lawrence Brett left as director
of the hospital to take hospital
post in Cincinnati. Mr.. Brett
and Mr. Beall were named jointly
in this finding.
2. On September 90, 1852,
$738.81 was alleged to have been
received at the hospital but not
paid into the city treasury. This
finding was against Mr.. Beall
alone.
3. Allegedly $755.33 was coll
lected September 81 and October
. II and not turned into the city
treasury. Both Beall and his
, secretary Mrs. Nadine Pierce,
were named.
The examiners said Mrs.
Pierce had told them she last
saw the money in Mr.. Beall's
desk at the hospital, where he
was spending several hours daily
in the absence of a hospital
director.
! Mr.. Beall said he did not go
to his Office at the hospital every
day and that others put money
in the desk and removed it. Any
:. one of seven people, he said,
could have been responsible for
the absence of the money in the
deSk.)
4. The sum of $236.69 paid for
drugs alleged to have been pur-
chased for Mr.. Beall's personal
: account in 1851 and charged to
the hospital but not repaid by
Mr.. Beall. They involved sew
: eral orders of cortisone, a drug
used in treatment of arthritis.
5. Lumber worth 1924 al
legedly purchased for Mr.. Bealls
personal use and charged to the
hospital.
6. The sum of $654.79 which
the examiners said was missins
from the hospital safe represent
ing the collections of May 6
1858. In this finding, Mr.. Beall
was named jointly with Arthur
| Carvolth, the new hospital di-
{ rector. The examiners said Mr.
; Carvolth had reported the loss
! Immediately to Mr.. Beall and
to police.
Ohio Law Quoted.
The examiners report quoted
from Ohio law. saying, Failure
! or refusal to pay over or produces
(See BEALL, Page A-6.)