The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-03-04
mrs. EDDY CASE
| M is DISCUSSED
Great Interest Manifested in
Its Outcome
Nephew Does Not Declare Her Incom'
petent But Asks for Receiver
for Property.
WILL BE CONTESTED ALL WAY.

Concord, n. H., March g. Be
cause George w. Glover. only son
of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, his
daughter. Miss Mary Baker Glover,
and George w. Baker, ner only
nephew, have filed a bill in equity as
next friends of the Christian SCR
|ence leader, seeking an accounting
of her property from the men who
surround her at her nome here and
the leaders of the church corpora
|tion in Boston, it does not necessa-
rily follow that Mrs. Eddy is going
to be brought into court or that she
will be obliged to make dispositions.
The defendants named by the
plaintiffs in their petition filed in
the Merrimac county superior court
propose to fight the proceedings to
the end.
Gen. Frank II. Streeter, Mrs. Ed
dy's personal counsel. today said
that the suit was brought without
her authority and that although sne
is made the plaintiff in the bill, Mrs.
Eddy is not in sympathy with the
action.
That a great legal battle is on be-
tween some of the brightest lawyers
of this state is undoubted. 1t is said
with authority that ex-senator
Chandler will be brilliant figure in
the trio of prosecuting attorneys.
Mrs. Eddy's Counsel Puzzled.
Gen. Streeter refused TO discuss
this aspect of the case.
I'VE can only sit light headed, .
he said. at is to say the least all
unusual case. Ordinarily there are
proceedings looking to establishing
or not the competence of people to
manage their own affairs, after
which, in the event OF the court ia
vOring the claim OF incompetence
there are proceedings towards re-
Iceivership. Here the complaints
waive all argument on Mrs. Eddy's
competency, alleging only that they
think she has a lot of money and
they can got none OF 1t. for which
reason there should be a receiver ap.
pointed.
"All this may be legal, of course
but the authorities are not ready to
hand. Strictly speaking. we are not
parties anduean say nothing definite
lly"
MY portion simply is" he said,
'that in matter of such newspaper
prominence, counsel should not tall,
at all On the general topic of Mrs
Eddy's mental competence. I will
Ireiterate my previous statement that
the relatives of Mrs. Eddy and their
counsel engaged in these proceed
lngs cannot fail to regret this step
soon.
81 have had three conferences
with Mrs. Eddy within a week. She
displayed then vigor and presence
of mind that is nothing less than as
Itonishing in a woman of her advanc-
ed years" olot
Cen streeter continued regarding
the report that he, as a Christian
Scientist. was especially interested in
the case, by saying:
20. no, I am not a Christian Sci
enlist though l have, apart from my
professional relations, a high per-
sonal regard for Mrs. Eddy"
Notwithstanding all that has trans.
pired during the last "a hours II Il
known that Mrs. Eddy herself has
not as yet been informed of the
proceedings which have beer
brought nominally in her interest b,
ner only son George w. Glover, who
visited her in this city on Januar,
2. last.
An informant who has known
much of the inner life OF Pleasant
View stated today that the books Of
Calvin Frye. who mas in charge al
of Mrs. Eddy's personal financial ar
fairs, If produced in court would
show that for quite series of years
Everything has been kept in first
class shape and in a perfectly intel
Eligible manner. The accounts of Cal
vim Frye have been audited. it Is
said, once a year, as well as the ac-
counts of those in charge Of the Bos-
ton interests.