The sun., 1905-08-02
MRS, FOREST KIDNAPS CHILD.
CAMPAIGN PLANNED FROM FIFTH
AVENUE HOTEL.

cr,bs Her Daughter From Her First Hus-
hand at Greenwich and IL Over the
Border before the sheriff Can Cstcn
Her-Episode Of second Honeymoon
Mrs, Frederick Story Forest OF Montana; ;
the divorced wife Of Herbert b. NichoS
of sl Park avenue. carried on her eeVen-
vear-old daughter, whom abe iound Win
Nr Nichols in the railroad station at Green
vicb, Conn, yesterday afternoon. She
grabbed the girl, jumped into carriage
with her and was quickly out OF slght ana
.oon out OF Connecticut. She was pur-
.ned bv Sheriff Ritch and was arrested ut
port Chester on a telephone message. but
rslea sed before Mr. Nichols heard OF her
vbereabouts. He was still trying to locate
the child last night.
Nichols and the present Mrs. Forest
were married in Spokane twelve years ago
Thev had one child the little girl Cath
crime.
According to Mr.. Nichols, his wife brought
AMT for divorce in Spokane, alleging In
compatibility Of temper. and Mr.. Nichols
NIT in 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 hero after the divorce
and has recently been living 1t ei 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
Frederick g. Forest. whom she had known
before she married her first husband. Mr..
Forest ia superintendent Of the Montana
Central Railroad and lives at Great Falls.
Mon. The Forests came here on honey
moon trip in June according to MIR. Nichols,
and upon reaching this city sent the child
to him.
This time MIR. Nichols took his daughter
Immediately to the home at 0reenwich
of his uncle, Eben Young, who lives IN the
house where Henry Ward Beecher's sister
once kept a school. Mr. Nichols has been
living most OF the time In New York. The
child had a bad fall ON Monday and was
cut about the eyes. It was for the purpose
of taking her to specialist that Mr.. Nichols
went ,,p to Greenwich yesterday to get her.
He did not know that Mrs. Forest was any
nearer than Spokane.
Mrs Forest, It appears, arrived here nom
Spokane on Wednesday. apparently with
the intention Of recovering her child. She
registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. II
some way she learned that Mr.. Nichols had
gone to Greenwich for the child. and when he
came with the child i0to the Greenwich
railroad station to take the train he found
Mrs. Forest waiting for him. According to
Mr. Nichols she rushed over to him, ana IN
order to prevent q scene he sat down With
her to find out what she wanted.
.She began to talk about her plans for
the child when she got her in September,
said Mr.. Niohols, -but she quickly became
excited and saw that she meant to make
trouble. I decided to step outside and
see il there was an officer in Mght: Just
..as 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 i want to 60 back
TO my cousins but her mother put her in
the carriage, grabbed the reins from the
hoy and whipped up the horse. knew
couldn't use force with a woman. and
decided to wait and get an officer. BY
that time my wife had got well away
Mrs Forest with the child drove hastily
to Moshier's livery stable, q quarter OF a
mile away. To Mrs. Moshier she showed her
divorce decree, and, being convinced that
the woman was in the right. Mrs. Moshisr
ordered Bart Murphy to hitch up q surrey
and take the woman and the child to Port
chester.
Il have hardly seen my husband In three
months Mrs. Forest told Mrs. Moshier
1--we been travelling all over the country
in my automobile searching for my child
] traced her to Nantucket and then here and
have her. Look at her oonditionl Doesn't
she need a mothers care? II anything
comes from you letting mo have the car
Iiage telephone to this address. and sht
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 Ritch on the
telephone and the latter jumped into DR.
V. c. Pratt's automobile and hustled down
to the station, where Mr.. Nichols told hin
what had happened. The Sheriff started
on In pursuit by trolley to Port Chester
and Mr.. Nichols came down to this city
and consulted his lawyer, H. X. Berry.
Mrs. Forest reached Port Chester in safety
but was stopped by an officer and taker
to the police station. She was alone Will
the child and there was no automobile t<
inset her. She produced her papers o
divorce and Justice Wakefield decided tina
she could 60 on, as she had not kidnape<
in New York State. il at all. In Connection
the law is such that whore man and woman
are living apart to take a child by forc'
Is kidnapping, with Ave years imprisonment
as 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, anc
Mrs. Forest went in and up to her room
while the cabman waited. Mrs. Fores
spent only q minute upstain, when sh'
used the telephone. After telephoning, sh'
walked UP to the desk in great hurry.
I will probably not Be back to my room
Tonight she said to the clerk. Then sh'
ran out and the cab started o6 with her
Whether the child was with her is not known
Mr.. Nichols had previously called up tn
hotel on the telephone to $50 II his wifi
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