Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-22
MRS. T|NGLEY DID
NOT HOLD WOMAN
At Iona POINT
Head of TheOs0phical Society
Has Demurrer Sustained
in Will Contest.

SAN DIEGO, Cal. Oct. 22.-Judge
w. r. Guyl in the Superior Court yes
terday sustained the demurrer vi
Katherine Tingley, head of the Uni
yersal Brotherhood II Th~eosophical
Society, at Point Iona, to the con
test filed by George L. Patterson. or
Newcastle, Pa. to the will of his
mother, Mrs. Harriet Patterson Thurs
ton. Mrs. Tingley scored a victory IN
the first proceedings in the contest of
the will of Mrs. Thurston. involving
an estate valued at $3.50, 900. Of which
Mrs. Tingley was named ~residuary
legatee. The petitioner was given ff-
teen days in which to file an amended
complaint.
The court held, in effect, that net
sufficient cause was show for the &C
ton brought by Patterson, who al
legged undue influence on the part OF
Mrs. Tingiey over his mother. Mrs.
Thurston was the wife of Clark Thurs
ton, a member of Mrs. Tingiey's cabi
net. and the mother OF Mrs. Julia r.
Quinn, who. it was enormously stated
in a dispatch on September 30, had
been released by order of the court
! from the custody of Mrs. Tingley. Mrs.
Quinn. it appears, never was in the
| custody of Mrs. Tingley.
The Case of Mrs. Quinn.
DR.. Dorm F. Wood, senior physician
at the Point Iona homestead, testified
at ii hearing that, according to her
mother, Mrs. Quinn for some years
prior to having been brought to Cali
fornia had been in several sanatoriums,
! and it was with the hope of a possible
cure thas she had placed her under his
care.
Mrs. Quinn was declared incompetent
in the Superior Court in San Diego in
1908, and her mother was appointed as
guardian OF her person and estate. a
year later her mother married Clark
Thurston.
Mrs. rhurston placed her daughter
under the care of DIR. Wood al q
private patient, and, with a nurse, Mrs.
Quinn occupied a place a mile from the
Point Iona homestead, purchased BY
Mrs. Thurston in order to have he}
/ daughter near her,
Mrs. Thurston died at Newburyport.
! Mass, about three months ago Mrs.
| Quinn remained under the care of DR..
Wood, but was permitted to occupy the
home of her mother on the grounds of
tie homestead, leased by Mrs. Thurs
ton from Mrs. Tingley.
Habeas Corpus Proceedings.
At the time hat Patterson, Mrs.
Quinn's brother, fled his contest to
the will of his mother he also brought
habeas corpus proceedings to get his
sister, whom he alleged he had not
been allowed to see alone or permitted
to take outside of the homestead
grounds.
Judge Lewis, in rendering his decision
in the matter, held that the testimony
showed that Mrs. Quinn was being re
strained II her liberty Ia the sense
that sp' could not do as she pleased
that heu mother, her legal guardian
being dead, she had now no guardian
with authority of law to restrain her
therefore, the restraint she was under
was not legal
The court said; There is nothing in
the ease to indicate to me that DR..
Wood is the person authorized by law
to detain Mrs. Quinn, nor the other
parties mentioned, If they have any
part in it,"
No evidence was introduced tending
to show that Mrs. Tingley a anything
to do with the alleged restraint of
Mrs. Quinn or had restrained her. DR..
Wood testified that he had used only
such precautionary measures as any
reputable physician would have done
in a case such as thai of Mrs. Quinn.