Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-22
HOLDS WOMAN WAS
UNDER NO DURESS
Court Sustains Demurrer of Mrs.
Tlngley, Dismissing Thurs
ton viii Contest
VALUE ESTATE AT $4,000
Report Mrs. Julia P. Quinn Was
Never in Custody of Head of
TheosophiCaI Society
VALUE ESTATE AT $4,000
Associated Press,

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 21.--Judge w. r.
Guy In the superior court today sus-
tanned the demurrer of Katherine Ting
ley, head Of the Universal Brotherhood
and Theosophical society at Point
Iona, to the contest filed by George L..
Patterson of Newcastle, Pa, to the
will of his mother, Mrs. Harriet Patter-
son Thurston.
Mrs. Tingley scored victory in the
first proceedings in the contest of the
will of Mrs. Thurston, involving an es-
tate valued at $350,00O, and of which
Mrs. Tingley was named residuary leg
atee.
The petitioner was given fifteen days
in which to file an amended complaint.
The court held in effect that not suf-
ficient cause was shown for the action
brought by Patterson, who alleged un-
due influence on the part OF Mrs. ring
ley over his mother.
Mrs, Thurston was the wife of Clark
Thurston, a member of Mrs. Tingleys $
cabinet, and the mother of Mrs. Julla
p. Quinn, who, 1t was erfoneously stat
ed in a dispatch on September 20, had
been released by order of court from
the custody of Mrs. Tingley.
Mrs. Quinn, it appears, never was in
the custody of Mrs. Tingley.
DIR. Dorm F. Wood, senior physician
at the Point Iona homestead, testified
at the hearing that according to her
mother Mrs. Quinn for some years
prior to having been brought to Cali
fornia had been in several sanitariums,
and it was with the hope of possible
cure that she had placed her under his
care.
Mrs. Quinn was declared an incompe-
tent in the superior court in San Diego
in 1908, and her mother was appointed
guardian of her person and estate.
MARRIEs CLARK THURsTON
year later her mother married
Clark Thurston. Mrs. Thurston placed
her 1aughaer under the care Of DR..
Wood as a private patient and with
a nurse Mrs. Quinn occupied place
a mile from the Point Iona home-
stead purchased by Mrs. Thurston in
order to have her 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 the homestead leased by Mrs
Thurston from Mrs. Tingley.
AT the time that Patterson, Mrs.
Quinn's brother, filed his contest of
the will of his mother, he also brought
habeas corpus proceedings TO get his
sister, WuO, uS dlASSCAB AAeiu Alch pCCAA
allowed to see alone or permitted to
take her outside of the homestead
grounds.
Judge Lewis, in rendering his de-
eision in the matter, held that the
testimony showed that Mrs. Quinn was
being restrained of her liberty, in the
sense that she could not do or go as
she pleased; that her mother, her legal
guardian, being dead, she had now no
guardian with authority of law to re-
strai1 her, therefore the restraint she
was Under was Illegal.
The court said, "There is nothing in
this case 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 had any
thing 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
a reputable physician would have done
in a case such as Mrs. Quinn.