The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-02
MRS. FOREST KlDNAPS CHILD.
CAMPAIGN PLANNED FROM FIFTH
AVENUE HOTEL.

AVENUE HOTEL.
Grabs Her Daughter From Her First Hus-
band at Greenwich and II Over tho
! Eorder Before the sheriff Can Catch
Iler-Episode q Second Honeyn; Don.
Mrs Frederick Story Forest Of Montana,
the divorced wife Of Herbert b. NICHOLS
OF o. Park avenue, carried on her eleven
year-old daughter, whom she found with
Mr.. Nichols In the railroad station at Green
wich, Conn.,, yesterday afternoon. she
grabbed the girl jumped into carriage
with her and was quickly out OF sight and
soon out OF Connecticut. She was pur-
sued by Sheriff Ritch and was arrested at
Port Chester on telephone message but
released before Mr.. Nichols heard Of her
whereabouts. He was still trying to locate
the child last night.
Nichols an1 the present Mrs. Forest
we're married in Spokane twelve years ago.
They had onb child, the little girl Cath
crime.
According 10 Mr.. Nichols, his wife brought
suit for divorce in Spokane, alleging In
compatibility Of temper. and Mr.. Nichols
put n no defense. The decree gave the
child to the mother, but, according to Mr..
Nichols, he was to have the child during
the summer vacations.
Mr.. Nichols came here after the divorce
and has recently been living at Of Park
avenue. His former wife has been on here
several times, and Mr.. Nichols saw the
child on those visits.
Last June Mrs. Nichols was married to
- q az, hol I'm nm
before she married her first husband. Mr..
Forest is superintendent Of the Montana
Central Railroad and lives at Great Falls,
Mon. The Forests came here on honey
moon trip In June. according to Mr.. Nichols,
and upon reaching this city sent the child
TO him.
This time Mr.. Nichols took his daughter
immet lately to the home at Greenwfoh
of his uncle, Eben Young. who lives In the
house. where Henry Ward Beeoher's sister
onc1Aaept a school. Mr.. Nichols has been
living most Of the time In New York. The
child had bad fall on Monday and was
out about the eyes. It was for the purpose
of taking her to specialist that Mr. Nichols
went UP to Greenwich yesterday to get her
He did not know that Mrs. Forest was any
nearer than Spokane.
Mrs. Forest, 1t appears, arrived here from
Spokane on Wednesday, apparently with
the intention Of recovering her child. She
registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. In
some way she learned that Mr.. Nichols had
gone to Greenwich for the child, and when he
came with the child into the Greenwich
railroad station to take the train he found
Mrs. Forest waiting for him. According to
Mr.. Nichols she rushed over to him, and In
order to prevent a scene he sat down with
her to find out what she wanted.
1She began to talk about her plans for
the child when she got her in September,
said Mr.. Nichols, "but she quickly became
excited and ] saw that she meant to make
trouble. / decided to step outside and
see II there was an officer in sight. Just
as I got outside Mrs. Forest grabbed my
little girl, ran out Of the station and across
to where John T. Perkins's little boy was
waiting in a buggy for the next train.
heard my little girl cry, 4 want to 60 back
TO my cousins but her mother put her In
the carriage, grabbed the reins from tho
boy and whipped up the horse knew l
couldn't use force with a woman. and I
decided to wait and get an officer. BY
that time my wife had got well away.
Mrs. Forest with the child drove hastily
to Mrshiel', livery stable, quarter OF
mile away. To Mrs. Moshier she showed her
divorce decree, and, being convinced that
the woman was in the right, Mrs. Moshier
ordered Bart Murphy to hitch up a surrey
and take the woman and the child to Port
Ches er.
Il have hardly seen my husband IN three
months" Mrs.. Forest told Mrs. Moshier.
sTve been travelling all over the country
In my automobile searching for my child.
traced it to Nantucket and then here and
have her. Look at her conditional Doesn't
she need mothers care? II anything
comes from you letting me have the car
riase telephone to this address, and she
handed out her card, on which she wrote
Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York She
said she would be met by her automobile
In Port Chester.
Mr.. Nichols got Sheriff Ritoh on the
telephone and the latter jumped into DR..
v. C. Pratt automobile and hustled down
to the station, where Mr.. Nichols told him
what had happened. The Sheriff started
of In pursuit by trolley to Port Chester
and Mr.. Nichols came down to this city
md consulted his lawyer H. X. Berry.
Mr. Forest reached Port Chester In safety.
but was stopped by an offcer and taken
to the police station. She was alone with
the child and there was no automobile to
neet her. She produced her papers of
dfsorce and Justice Wakefield decided that
she could 90 on, as she had not kidnapped
In New York State. IL at ALL In Connecticut
the law 10 such that whore man and woman
are living apart to take child by force
10 kidnapping, with five years imprisonment
% the penalty attached.
About 10 O'clock last night closed car
riage drove up In . hurry at the Twenty
fourth street side Of the Fifth Avenue. and
Mr.. Forest went In and UP to her room.
while the cabman waited. Mrs. Forest
spent only minute upstairs, when she
used the telephone. After telephoning, she
walked up to the desk In . greet hurry.
II will probably not DO back to my room
tonight she eaid to the clerk. Then she
ran out and the cab started Oh with her.
Whether the child was with her b not known.
Mr.. Nichols had previously called up the
hotel on the telephone to see II his wife