The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-02
SAYS WIFE AND HIMSELF AGREED
TO LIVE AS BROTHER AND SISTER
New Yorker in Alienation Suit
Against Texas Ranch Owner Ad-
VanCes Unusual Argument

New York, Oct. 2The marriage re-
lation ais tbs interpreted by the
higher metaphysicians OF Christian
Science and how this Interpretation
directly affected the home life Of Mr..
and Mrs Charles Charters, teachers
and healers In the faith, We're matters
which were aired before fashion
ably dressed court room in the be.
ginning of Charles Charters aiiena-
tion suit against Thomas l.. T. Tenn
Pile the millionaire Texas raDch OWL
err. in the supreme court in JERSEY
City today.
X was under ross-examination hy
Temples attorney that the healer
whose name has recently been drop
ped from the authorized list OF Chris
tian Science practitioners. told OF his
wife's sublime conception of the mar
rlage relation
He said that three years after their
marriage they journeyed together On
i pilgrimage to Boston, and that af-
tar their worship III the mother
church there 1t was Mrs. Charters
suggestion that thenceforward they
substitute the relationship OF brother
and sister for that OF man and wife.
"She made the suggestion in ae-
cordance with her religious ideals anu
spiritual beliefs, Charters declared
"and | agreed upon it, as | always
agreed to anything my wife wished
It was shortly after this compact
had been entered into that Temple
came up from Texas to be taught
Christian Science, according To rho
Eplaintiff's testimony. and his wife un-
dertook TO give him instruction Tenn
pie stayed three or four months III
their home In Palisade, and shortly
after his departure Mrs Charters
went to visit him and his children IN
Texarkana, Texas.
After her return from Texas | no.
ticed that her love for me was dead,
Charters declared dramatically. II
was first reader and she was second
reader OF the Second Church oL
Christ, Scientist, III New York CITY
then vet though we stood on the
platform together at service she
would not speak to me. On Dec, 22,
1910, she ordered me to leave the
house in Palisade.'
$500 To Protect Wife
Francis Scott who, with William =.
Edwards, represented the defendant
declared that Temple had given
Charters $500 to protect the name
of Mrs. Charters, even though she
was innocent Of the charges made
against her by her husband On the
receipt Of this money Charters had
agreed not 10 prosecute the present
suit, the lawyer continued.
This man Charters falls in love
with every petticoaI lie sees, the
LAWYER declared. lie makes love 70
every pretty girl that comes 70 him
as patient
The defendant was called to the
stand by the plaintiffs lawyers AZ
the first witness. Charters lawyers
asked him il it were true. IS alleged
IN charters complaint, that ne haa
spent a night in January OF last year
in Mrs. Charters home In Palisade, y
J.
1T is true. The big eattleman an
swered deliberately. Il spent sewers
nights in her home, but on eaeh &c,
casion Mrs Charters father, General
Young. was in the house aud one.
two Or three OF my children were also
there.
"Did YOU ever give Mrs. Charters
gift of s6.000?" he was then asked.
"Yes. did she had 0een training
nv children in Christian Science, and,
besides. she needed it to help her our
in her trouble with her husband.