The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-31
)LLAPSE OF THE EDDY CASE Ie So-Called Next Friends Admit Their Inabil- ity to Produce Evidence fSMISSAL OF
 THE LAW ACTION |aring Charges Concerning |the Condition of Mrs. Eddy Are Not
 Proven.

The famous so-called suit in equity
 ich was instituted through George
 Glover and his daughter, Mary B. & Pver. and others. charging that
 Y. Mary Baker c. Eddy, discoverer
 founder of Christian Science, has
 Pn Incompetent to manage her bus
 ss affairs and that she has been : ltrolled and domina-ad by certain r her followers, has suddenly collaps-
 by a motion of the plaintiffs
 For months glaring charges con-
 ming the condition of Mrs. Eddy
 D the conduct of her nsar support
 have been blasonsd forth to the
 blic, and counsel fo- the so-called # Et friends have glvsn out the im-
 Pssion that stal tling disclosures
 re to be made that they would be
 e to prove that Mrs. Eddy is in a
 bless state and in the hands of de-
 ming men who were not giving
 bper account of her income.
 After months of noisy boasting 1t
 W turns out that the so-calsl l next Nends' and their counsel Ire not able
 produce scintilla Of evidence in F Jor of their allegations but that
 ey have made their charges without @ slightest provocation; that they Hver have had the slightest evidence,
 have manufactured their charges
 t of whole cloth.
 %There has been and is much specu- #ion as to the real plaintiffs in the fSe, as to who originated this glyan-
 farce, and 1t now appears to have Zen simply an effort to annoy and
 credit Mrs. Eddy and stigmatize the igton of which she is the founder Ed that probably the so-called next Tends were themselves the tools of &signing men" and that they proba. 4 never would have instituted this
 It of their own volition had they
 [ been solicited and misled.
 "A few days ago, in the course of the
 aring which has just closed, the lee masters who had been appointed
 Judge Chamberlain to determine
 e question of Mrs. Eddy's business
 pacity on the second of March last,
 Ten sine executed a deed of trust to-
 ther with the leading counsel on
 tn sides of the case, visited Mrs. Ed
 at her home and 1t was found that rs Eddy was not only thoroughly
 mpetent but exceedingly alert and
 ite match for the gentlemen who #ited her. Even the counsel who hs seeking to prove her Incompetent < was heard to remark that "she was
 sharp as steel trap"
 The result of this interview, which
 Is been published all over the conn. ", has established beyond any doubt { Ne fact that Mrs. Eddy is not only &lysicalty strong for cna ce her years Ft one of the most alert women of
 r age who lives at this period.
 Ever since the filing of the bill, the ! ext friends" through their counsel i've made repeated statements to the
 bile press as to what they expected i prove and the evidence they claim /. to have in hand but which they as { Etted could not be disclosed at that sne but when opportunity arrived sbuld be offered and wculd sustain d prove each and all of the allega. bns in their bill relating to the in- Hmpetency of Mrs. Eddy and the irn-
 sltion and restraint that was impos-
 upon her by all thoSa that were rrt rtUnding her
 Since the beginning of the hoaring
 the masters apointsd by the court, .e fullest oport1'nity has been given { em and the greatest latitude and in- Elgence has been shown them by the 'asters, 3nd vet each succeeding day
 8 shown :heir inability to produce 1y material or competent evidence at would tend to show in any de- [ lee that Mrs Eddy was not fully . .mpetent and shle to manageA her Fairs, or. as matter of fact, that ere was any ground or foundati )n hatever for any of the charges that Icy so audaeiOusly set forlh. And, af- F days of reiteration and repetition what thev intended to show they i've finally admitted. by their own otion to dismiss the proceedings, < cir utter inability to produce the ghtest evidence in support of these lave, unjust and unfounded charges at they so emphasized and pro- |ained at every opportunity through @ press and in all other public ways There could be no more complete ! Id higher vindication of Mrs. Eddy Id no stronger admission of failure their own part than their volun- ny aot of asking dismissal of the se that they have themselves insti- 1ted. Such disposition of the case ust have greater weight in the finds of all fair-minded persons than len a finding of the masters in favor Mrs. Eddy could possibly have--to |ncede that the evidence they had Tered was so slight that they them lives recognized that it was not even |ficsent to submit to the masters for cir consideration.
 During the time which has elapsed hoe the institution of this suit, it has |veloped in various ways that with le exception of MT. Calvin A. Frye, |rs. Eddy's faithful secretary, none the ten defendants had the slight It knowledge of Mrs. Eddy's business tairs nor had ever handled a dollar her money. It was also shown by |e affidavits of expert accountants at MT. Frye had very carefully glv- account of Mrs. Eddy's affairs and at when he closed them up he had |ade errors against himself so that |ere was due him something over k hundred dollars.
 It was also discovered that Mrs. Ed had manifested a shrewdness in Pr investments and in the general