The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-09
METHODIST BISHOP
SUED FOR SLA|VDER
Mrs. Carrie Z. Cope of To
peka, Kan, Demands Dam
ages of David II. Moore.

TOPEKA. Kan. Nov. S.-1he contro-
versy between Mrs. Carrie u. Cope of To-
pcka and Bishop David II. Moore Of the
Methodist Episcopal church reached a
crisis this afternoon when suit was Med
i'm The Shawnee county district court by
Mrs. Cope against the bishop for $4,000
damages. Mrs. Cope alleges that Il letter
by Bishop Moore was calculated to injurc
her las a citizen, as Il wife. as a mother
and as a Christian" she declares she
has been humiliatcd. panied and hurt and
that she is entitled 10 damages.
Tho suit followed the meeting of the
four Methods, bishops. Charles w. Smith,
Portland, or; James i. Berry, Buffalo \.
Y. John l.. Nuelson. Omaha. and David
II. Wooroe OF Cincinnati, here today To
Bishop Moore as the result of n letter
writtcn by him To an official Of the
Wom9u's Home Missionary society rcla-
tive 10 funds controlled by Mrs. Cope un-
der Il legal entanglement surrounding
bequest made by Mrs. Fanny MURRAY OF
AtchiSon county. Kansas. several years
trust 10 property she owned III Califor-
MIA. valued at $50, 600, providing that on
her death half the property should go TO
the Women's Foreign Missionary society
and the other half to the Women's Homo
Missionary society Of the Kansas con-
ference Of the Methodist church.
ter. the one TO which Mrs Murray be-
lonrcd being the ''Women's Home Mis-
sionary society OF tho Methodist Ers-
copal church Of the Kansas conference
Later Mrs. Cope and others who were
officers Of the society "a which Mrs.
Murray belonged are said TO have organ
ized and Incorporated a society named In
accordance with the terms Of Mrs, Muir
rays bcquest. and subsequently Mrs.
Murray's trustee is said 10 hive paid
This society the sum Of $500 Of the 10000
st,TI NHN 10 a
been invested. When new officers of the
original society were elected, about two
years ago. it was found that a permanent
fund existed and the new officers de-
manded the money. This. It is asserted.
was refused and a suit to recover the
money followed.
dated Abilene kan. March Is. 1911. was
addressed to an official of the Womcn's
Home Missionary society OF the church.
and was as follows:
''It is Friday aud Mrs Cope has not
appeared. have carefully gone over all
papers conferred with the cabinet and
with Mrs knostnan and the officers Of
the auxiliary and pondereh the situation
I think YOU VIII never see II cent OF tho
bequest and dangerous precedent viii
be cstahl shnd unless YOU oncygetically
sustain the Kansas conference In pushing
the matter TO a legal conclusion. No So
c!ety authorized by the church, however
Incorporate. can rishtfu'ly. sunplant your
auxiliary. This the society has under
taken to do and this only
what complexities the situation is the
fact that Mrs. Cope. apart from this.
holds official relation 10 your society
is appointed To some Junction Of your So
ci.tv. Thus she Is enabled To pose as an
cfiicial and to disturb the work OF your
regular organization She should bc re-
li.Vrd of all such relations at the earliest
possible moment.
"As TO the bcquest nothing "o:ncs OF
all her promises. Nothing will In my
judgment. Mr., jackson, while seeming
TO oct for her has set ON the heirs 10
bring suit for Tie property You arc
tried and beaten.
Sincerely yours
DAVID H. MOORE"