Evening star., 1954-05-23
beaII Released
From Ohio Jail
On $1,000 Bond
Montgomery Official
Indicted on $738.8l
Embezzline Charge
Special Dispatch 10 The stor

-EUWaEO i. Bean, county man.
ager of Montgomery County, Md,
posted $4,000 bond here tonight
on charge of embezzling $738.81
from the city-owned Portsmouth
General Hospital and was re-
leased after spending several
hours in the county Jail.
Beall is accused of embeZzling
the money while he was city
manager here two years ago.
The bond was set by Common
Pleas Judge Vernon Smith.
Beall will face a preliminary
hearing next week.
Beall was arrested in an Ash
land (KyD motel cabin this
morning after his weeping wife
had telephoned their where
abouts to Sheriff Burl E. JUS
tice of Scioto County, Ohio.
A Scioto County grand jury
investigating an alleged $2,458
shortage at the hospital turned
up by State auditors-indicted
the 45-year-old Johns Hopkins
University graduate late yes
terday after three days of hear
ing testimony.
Under Ohio law. however, the
indictment remained q secret
until Sheriff Justice had taken
Rea1l intO r,,St0jv
Beall. who left Portsmouth to
become Montgomery County
manager last September l, is ac-
cused in the indictment of
embezzling the total daily re-
ceipts from the hospital for Sep
tember %, 1852.
Beall served as both city
manager and hospital director
from June 30 to November IA,
1852.
Funds Not Turned In.
The examiners from the State
Auditors Office said in their re-
port of last April i2 that the
September % hospital receipts
included $248.08 in currency and
$490.73 in checks. The receipts
were never turned into the city
treasury. the report stated.
However, two of the Septem-
ber % checks, totaling $330.55,
were channeled into the city
treasury the following Decem-
ber S, the examiners said. On
that date. they added, the actual
hospital collection report was
altered to show $33O.55 less cur
rency received and the Septem-
ber % checks were submitted
for the currency.
Mrs. Nadine Pierce, Beall's
secretary in 1852, told the exam
iners, according to their report,
that she changed the hospital
collections record "at the direc-
tion of Mr.. Beall."
Five Other Allegations.
The auditors report also
named Beall in five other allie
cations regarding a total alleged
fund shortage of $2.458.56 from
the hospital in 1851, 1852 and
1853 The grand jury indicted
him. however. only on the one
allegation.
Sheriff Justice, who had noti-
fled Montgomery County author
tiles to watch for Beall's return
there, said he received a call
from Mrs. Beall about 1915
am. today after he and his
deputies had been searching for
the couple all night.
Beall had not been seen since
he left the courthouse here about
4:30 pm. yesterday after he had
testified before the grand jury.
"D0 You Want Ed?".
The Sheriff said Mrs. Beall
was crying as she asked him:
do you want Ed?"
Sheriff Justice, without re-
vealing that Beall had been in
dicted. said he told Mrs. Beall
he wahted to talk to her hus-
band./
my husband is a sick man
I want you to come here and
talk to him." Mrs. Beall said to
the sheriff. He said she then
told him to meet here in the
coffee shop of the Ventura Hotel
at Ashland, abiut 80 miles from
here.
The sheriff said he met Mrs.
Beall at the hotel and she took
him down the street to the Ash
land Motel. where he found
Beall in bed.
Sheriff Justice said that as
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