Show II SUDDEN ENDING OF EDDY CASE WAS OPPOSED I From the Denver Dener Express BOSTON Sept Sopt 4 In In proof of the tho fact that no compromise was made with relatives of Mrs Eddy in the dismissal of the suit against the tho leader of Christian Chris Chris- Christian tian Science that bod body today issued the following excerpts from tho official report of the trial After Mr r. Chandler made his hUl motion to dismiss s the tho suit General Streeter made tho the following address If If your honor pleases in in behalf of Mrs Irs Eddy Eady inv tn associates the attorney general Mr Ir Eastman astman and Allen Hol Hoi ps ns us join mo me in tho the following motion Thai the masters proceed with this hearing and determine the questions submitted namely Mrs Irs Ed Eddys Eddy's d s 's competency com to manage her business affairs March 1 I 1907 Upon this motion I desire desiro de de- sire siro to speak briefly and perhaps moro more temperately than tho the circumstances would justify me mo in speaking If If wo we arc aro allowed to proceed we shall show you ou that on February 12 Mrs frs Edd Eddy Eddy- be began n a-n to arran arrange o for the thc entire mana management ement of her property durin during her ller life and to make liberal provision for her hor kindred during that time I will not go o into tho the details of these matters matters mat mat- matters excepting to say ay to you you ou that if your honors are aro not alread already y satisfied wo we should bo be able to you beyond be be- yond vend a question not only of Mrs Mra Edly's Ed Ed- ay's ays absolute competency to deal with her affairs but that durin during the last t two o weeks of February the tho last two weeks before beCore this suit was brought ht she was dealing with those tholo questions with sagacity sa so far as her ber business matters were concerned and s as a n noble Chris Christian Christian tian tim woman so far as as her ber next o of kin were Ne concerned Now your our honors neither Mrs Edd Eddy nor her counsel h have havethe t e tho the power to prevent her called so-called next friends from trying trvin to persuade Jud Judge o Chamberlin to let them dismiss their bill and get out of court Neither have havo we wo tho power to prevent their unconditional unconditional un conditional surrender in tho middle of this hearing before the tho masters They volunteered to begin this wretched asSault assault as as- sault ault upon tho person property and religious religious re re- re l faith of an a aged cd citizen of Now Hampshire and now six months later ator when their char charges es have bave utterly col collapsed collapsed collapsed lapsed tIle they thoy run to cover er This is their lc legal al ri right ht but I speak peak of tho the legal leg rights of Mrs frs Eddy Let mo me temper temper- temperately review the situation Tho suit was brought in her name against ten honest men man alle alleging n first that teat she was vas incompetent to protect her property and second that these ten defendants bavo have Wron wrongfully ull misappropriated printed her funds Not one of the tho ton defendants had taken a dollar of her hermone mone money They havo have answered under oath Tho The truth of their answer is admitted The suit was based d on false fahe pretenses The Tho situation was unique in lc legal al his his- tOI tory Mrs Eddy in the eyes of the law was not a defendant although h tho the proceedings wore ere in fact hein being directed direct direct- ed solely a against her ber Sho who was not plaintiff the tho suit was brought against her will Her trustees s who held and were mana managing in her estate under a valid I deed prayed for leave leao to intervene Their petition was denied She Sho personally per pcr appealed to the court for pro She Sho urged that tho the maintenance main main- of these thele proceedings by said eaid alleged ed next friends friends' was an abuse abuso of the processes of the court and an unwarranted un interference with her ber con cony constitutional and legal ri rights and that she ahe was entitled to speedy relief f. f II She She represented that thae under tho conot constitution and la laws vs she w was s of right entitled to a 11 determination of the question 1 whether her hor property interests in in- have havo been and now aro are fully protected and whether thorn thoro is an any lawful or just occasion for the maintenance main main- of these pro proceedings by said eaid next friends' friends 2 2 whether tho trust deed and tho the appointment of trustees and nd attorneys by her was tb thereby reb her ber tree free and intelligent act net and carried out her wishes washes 3 whether the tho proceedings proceed proceed- proceedings ins ings were brought in in good faith for her ber personal benc benefit t and as a citizen she sho prayed for a n speedy determination of oi these and other questions questions all all without without with with- ith out avail ail These called so-called I next friends her assailants bitterly bitted opposed her ber petitions peti peti- and they were denied They Thc insisted insisted in in- listed that thal her competency should b be e et determined by the tho court t i and nd their requests re requests re- re quests were granted a against her prot pro pro- pro pro- t tests s t You You were appointed masters to palson pass pals on tho the question submitted d in your com corn mission mission Under these circumstances wo we submit submit sub sub- mit that Mrs Eddy has a legal right to toa a finding of ot her competency to to such sueh finding on the tho case as it now stands If It y you you ou think tink otherwise then to a finding on such further evidence ne as S she may produce J m Any An other result rel will bring reproach in in the eyes eves of tho the world upon the the administration ad ad- ministration of ot justice here I 1 speak not only for Mrs Mn Eddy but for eer every other a aged ed citizen of this state whose property persons and religious religious re reo re- re convictions are now endangered In In their name and in in the name of this a aged ed and honorable and honored woman oman we respectfully demand that a find finding in of competency be made by hy your honors up upon on this issue thrust upon her herand herand and Ind submitted to your Jour decision by the thc court |