The Washington herald., 1907-03-12
JOIN IN EDDY SUIT
Two More Plaintiffs Named
in Amendments Filed.
ONE OF THEM ADOPTED SON
Expected Notices of Dispositions to
Be Taken Not Given in Concord.
Baker, a Second Cousin, Kept from
visiting Head of Christian Science
by Secretary Frye, He Claims.

Concord. y Il. March 1L-John W.
Kelley and y Z. Martin, counsel for
plaintiffs in the Glover EDDY suit. called
upon Gen. Frank s. Streeter at 4 o'clock
this afternoon and fled an amendment to
the original bill, which adds TO the list
Of plaintiffs Or, z J. Foster Eddy of
Montpelier. VI, an adopted son OF Mrs.
Eddy, and Fred W Baker. of EPSON. y.
H., a second cousin Of Mrs Eddy
The expected notices of dispositions 10
be taken We're not filed upon the local
defendants to-day. and viii not be for
day or two, according to Attorney Mar
tin Gen. Streeter had a conference with
Mrs Eddy this afternoon. but would give
out no statement. Representative
Henry NJ Baker also responded to a call
from Mrs. Eddy for an interview, and
visited Pleasant View He said he dis
cussed some legal questions with Mrs.
Eddy snd that was all
The new legal documents added 10 the
Clover-Frye case to-day recites in part
that Dr. Foster Eddy joins in said petit
ton as next friend of the said Mary
Eaker Glover Eddy. and says that he has
become convinced that Mrs Eddy is. and
intelligently conducting or receiving an
account OF her business and property. and
that the same is being managed wholly
by the defendants without giving "a
proper accounting thereof
Another PIaintiR Added.
Another document adds TO the list Of
plaintiffs Fred Walter Baker. Of Epson.
and says that he joins in said petition in
equity as d next friend of the said Mary
Baker @. Eddy; thst he is a second cou-
sin OF the said Mary Baker Glover
Eddy; that in September. 1896. he was
sent by his employers. J. p & w II. Ed
mond. carriagemakers. then doing bUsi-
ness at 21l5 Washington street. Boston,
now on Parker street, RoXbury, TO visit
Pleasant View 10 examine and repair and
alter certain carriages Of Mrs. Eddy; that
he made known 20 Mrs. Eddy his rela-
t'onship to her, and she treated him
with cordialty on his first visit and
also a few days later when he finished
work on her carriages, and she asked
him 20 live in the house during his work,
which he did. and took his meals with
Mrs Eddy MIR. Frye, and a woman of
the household and lodged I'm the house
about the house and invited him to come
10 visit her with his wife and children at
any time.
Frye Told Him Not to Come.
Mr.. FRYE. however. told him that he
ought not to make thaJ visit; that not
long after. in accordance with the above
invitation. while still living in Boston, he
prepared TO visit Airs. Eddy, intending 10
take Isis wife and little girl; that he wrote
10 Mrs. Eddy, as she had told him to do,
that he was coming but received no re-
ply. and therefore. with modification ana
reluctance. gave up tie visit
During The next three years lie wrote
lits Eddy twice Offering to avail him
self Of her invitation 20 visit her, but he
received ao reply. and he believes that
sne was rot permitted go soc either of
the letters. that De believes that Mrs.
Eddy is virtually "a prisoner I'm her own
house; that she is kept secluded by the
defendants. Frye and others. and that she
is net capable. under an the conditions
of mana ginE her own business, but that
it is all I'm the hands and control lf said
Frye and others 50 lhat there has not
been due and proper accounting hy
those seIf-C0ustitgted guardians OF her
person and property.
Formal Notice Not Served.
Boston. March 1l-Fomal notice of the
fact that suit In equity has been
brought in the name OF Mrs Mary Baker
q Eddy. by her next friends. her son,
granddaughter. and nephew. Was n0t
served un The Massachusetts defendants
named ia the action to-day. as had been
expected by the attorneys for the peti-
ti0ners. and now the defendants cannot
be served before tomorrow morning.
Saturday night. the printed summons ana
declaration in the suit We're mailed from
Concord. y H.. to Frederick ". Pea
body. associate counsel i'm the case on
the part OF petitioners and he did not
receive them until nearly II clock this
forenoon Alr Peabody took the paper
10 ex-senator Chandler, and il was dis
covered that through some oversight
not one of the copies was in the
handwriting of the clerk Of the Superior
Court Of New Hampshire, certifying that
the printed papers are exact copies of the
original in the action.
Have TO Await Papers,
Therefore it was necessary 10 await
papers bearing the clerks CeTtihCatiOn
before they could be legally served.
II was learned to-day thai the counsel
for the petitioners do not intend 20 de-
lay matters at all. and that the work of
taking dispositions viii begin AT the ear
HeSt allowable moment.
Attorney Samuel j. Elder. who is to
have charge of the ease of the Boston
defendants, returned from Concord this
forenoon. tie would say nothing about
his conference with Gen. Streeter.