maitland 's brothers were distraught over maitland 's death , and begged mary beth to try to stop such events if she could , to which she replied that she could give it a try , and would the next time something of that kind came to her attention again , she warned them that such things were tricky in 1921 , maitland 's son , maitland junior , wanted to go on an expedition in the african jungles , of which his mother therese strongly disapproved , and she appealed to mary beth either to stop the boy or to make some sort of prediction .