'No Property Found':
Verdict When Sophian Sued Mrs. Smith

Published In The Tulsa Tribune On Tuesday, April 4, 1944

"No property found."

This statement was inscribed four years ago in a suit against Mrs. Fay H. Smith, mysterious former Christian Science practitioner who held two girls in mental bondage for years, after she had lost a $543.56 suit for failure to pay her Sophian Plaza rent.

This was six years after her husband was found shot to death along the Sand Springs road.

The suit was entitled "Fifteenth and Frisco Building Co. vs. Carolann Smith" in common pleas court.

Charles A. Kothe, attorney, said that the judgement had never been collected. Testimony in the case disclosed that Mrs. Smith admitted she was formerly a Christian Science practitioner, but that she had no money.

In answer to a direct question as to her assets, she replied: "I have $413 in cash."

But where the cash was kept was not disclosed by the record.

She further said a "niece and cousin" were living with her, and she denied that any insurance policies made her the beneficiary, except those of her husband whom she termed as "broke when he died."

Mrs. Smith whose mysterious domination of Willetta Horner and Virginia Evans has baffled investigators as to a motive, told the court at the time "relatives are helping me."

The only name disclosed was C. P. Clarendon, reportedly living on a rural route out of Springfield, Mass.

Mrs. Smith told the court that she had "never worked in her life." The Sophian Plaza forced her to move, but when the deputy sheriffs went to attach her personal property, they walked cautiously into the court clerk's office, and reported: "No property found."

That was before she had bought expensive perfumes, a Packard automobile, light priced drapes and other fashionable items of jewelry which she had previously denied owning.

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