The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-11
COURT TO NAME MAN TO EXAM.
lNE CONDITION OF MRS.
EDDY.
NEXT FRIENDS" RAPED
BY Attorney Streetor, Who Declares
Suit Was Not Brought In Good
Faith But Was Started BY
the New York World. t.4

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iants in the suit brought by the next
friends" of Mrs Mary Baker G. Eddy,
head of the Chritlan Sc.encs denom-
iination, asking for an accounting OF
Mrs. Eddy's property were successful
In carrying point today when Judge
IChamberlin announced that he would
within week appoint master to con.
duct the hearings and take testimony
to d. termine whether Mrs Eddy Is
competent to manage her own affairs
| Today's proceedings were scheduled
Ito be a hearing on the motion on the
lpart Of Mrs. Eddy and her three trus-
tees to have the equity proceedings
brought by vnext friends against
Mrs. Eddy's secretary, Calvin A. Frye,
land nine other prominent Christian
Scientists, dismissed on the ground
that the action was not brought in
good faith.
Defense Asks For a Master
Shortly after Str: etor, who repres
sented both trustees and Mrs. Eddy
,
he ann unced that he would suspend
the right to bring up the legal ques
tions involved at this time, but would
agree to immediate settlement of the
matter of Mrs. Eddy's competency, In
asmuch as he understood that court
wished that phase of the case disposed
Of
Streetor asked that a master be ap-
pointed to conduct the hearings on
matter of Mrs. Eddy's competency.
while the attorneys for the next
friends" argued Mrs. Eddy's compe-
tency be established before jury, or
as Attorney Dewitt G. Howe, of the
counsel for the next friends ex-
pressed 1t in court, We wish her com
potency TO be tried as that of any /
humble person would be tried
A feature of the proceedings was |
the declaration Gf Streetor that the |
sut for an accounting of Mrs. Eddy's |
property was not brought by her son. !
George W. Glove-, of Lead, S. d., and !
others who appear as next friends, I
but was instituted at the instigation
of New York newspaper which has
been trying to discredit Mrs. Eddy
and h:r religious teachings.
Judge Chamberlin, however, did not
define any limitations to the hearings
when he announced his intention of 4
appointing a master. It is expected
that the hearings to det rhine Mrs.
Eddys competency be held at Pleas
ant View, Mrs. Eddy's estate in this
city.
Suit Started BY New York World.
Streetors argument today was de- Il
voted mainly to assail.ng the motive Ii
Of the plaintiffs in the suit of the
next friends" He said George w. i
Glover appears as the first next
1t would appear that he
this proceeding. He did not.
William K. Chandler employed Glover
as a client. The true origin of this
suit was not last March but last Oc-
tober, when the New York World
charged that Mrs. Eddy was dying of
lancer and was imp rsonated by an
,ther woman.
Streetor quoted from the paper CON
,luding with the statement made 'Oc- {
ober 2s that legal proceedings were
o be taken, and r ad letters alleged
o have been written by Chandler 10
he newspaper to prove his contention
hat the paper had employed Chand-
er. He referred to the filing of the
original action on March i, 1907, and s
aid that on March 2 the New York I
,aper published a statement in re- |
,ard to the case in which "the real {
lrigin fthis most dastardly suit is 1
disclosed with great particularly" d
Dewitt c. Howe of ths counsel for G
he plaintiffs replied to Streetor. He |
aid the suit was simply an inquiry Il
nto the business competency of Mrs 10
Eddy" No one is legally interes ed 1
n this suit, said Howe, except the ,r
Iarties to It.
When Howe had concluded Judge Z
announced that in his | f
mind there was no doubt of his re- S
possibility TO determine the compe- I
ency or incompetency of Mrs Eddy
nd that h should appoint a master
o determine the question as soon as
vidence could be prepared for sub
Mission. Il