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the foregoing, the testimony of a disinterested witness, is in direct & positive conflict with the statements of the witnesses for the petitioner.

C.D. Noble 
C.D. Noble testifies that "I only heard the reply made when Capt Brown asked permission for them to visit the Hospital I heard Dr Bell say something to the effect, that if the Griffiths had not sent a petition to Washington for his (Bells) removal, they could come, otherwise not, as they were enemies of the Hosp'l's in the that case," (see Vol 2 Pp 49. L 10 to 14) This evidence explains the motives of Dr Bell in refusing them admission at first.
In all above testimony on both sides, it does not appear that the petitioners, ever applied to any officer, to grant them "facilities for studying disease or imparting lore to their students or apprentices."
They certainly cannot complain that they did not receive, what they did not ask for. The facts are that Dr Bell refused permission to the Griffiths to visit the Hosp'l. because he supposed they were his personal enemies. Whether he had a right to