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Show asi'is mNxii m im mm Son cf Christian Science ' -Head Considers Her Too Feeble to Attend to Business Busi-ness and Aslls an Accounting. Ac-counting. , CONCORD, K. H, March 2. A. bill in equity to secure an accounting of the financial affairs of Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, head of the Christian Science Sci-ence church, was filed in the Superior court, by Mrs. Eddy's son, George W. Glover of Deadwood, 8. Dt, and" his daughter, Mrs. Mary Baker Glover, and George WV Baker of Bangor, ' Me., nephew and "next friend" of Mrs. Eddy. The bill is directed against Alfred Al-fred Farlow and other trustees of the Christian Science church in Boston; Calvin A. Erye, Mrs. Eddy's secretary; Lewis O. 8trand, her assistant secretary, secre-tary, and Herman Springer, first reader' of the chureh in Concord. Besides demanding an accounting of all transactions regarding Mrs. Eddy's affairs, the bill asks for restitution in case any wrongdoing appears; for injunction in-junction during the litigation against interference with her property and business and for a receiver. In a statement issued br Former For-mer United States Senator William E. Chandler, special counsel in the action, it is declared Mr. Glover is actuated by no spirit of disrespect to his mother, but believes that, the proceeding is in her real interest. Mr. Glover says that the action is not directed against the religion of the Christian Science church. The statement state-ment further declares that Mr. Glover had long thought his mother was growing grow-ing too feeble in body and" mind to attend at-tend to important business matters, but that for a long time he was unable to confirm this suspicion because those about her seemed unwilling to allow even her nearest relatives to have an interview long enough to reveal her actual condition. Early in January, it is said, Mr. Glover, Glo-ver, during a visit to Concord, was 'enabled to have a short talk with his mother, and after due consideration he decided on the present action as an imperative im-perative duty too long neglected. Specifically Spe-cifically the bill alleges that the nominal plaintiff, Mrs. Eddy, who sues "by her next friend," has lor a long time been incompetent to do business or understand under-stand transactions conducted in her name. The next allegation is that the defendants have possessed themselves of her personal property and have carried car-ried on her. business. It is also alleged that, having done this, knowing of her infirmity, they have beeome trustees for nearlv all of her property which has come into her possession and aia bound to give account ac-count thereof and of all the transactions transac-tions in her name. , It is declared that there is reason to fear that the defendants' wrongs full converted some of her property to their own use, and that there are transactions transac-tions of which " an aecount should be given. , " , |