Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-06-11

went up the AISLE In q lew minutes,
however, Mrs. Tallman grew worried
and went to look for her charge. The
little girl and her mother were gone!
Mrs. Tallman rushed out to the street,
exclaiming loudly, and the audience
hearing her, thought that something
had happened People rose and start
ed for the doors, crying. The lights
were turned up and the stage man.
ager quieted the audience. Mrs. Tall
man reached the sidewalk just in time
to see Mrs. Seldner leap into taxi
cab with the little girl The mother
in-law called to a policeman to stop
Mrs Seldner, and merry chase be-
gan Down Broadway nearly to Fiji
tieth street the mounted policeman
pursued the fleeing taxi, finally over
taking it.
The mother was arrested, but after
the magistrate heard her story he de-
cided to let her go on the promise that
she would not try to kidnap her baby
again.
Determined to Have Child.
A mothers love tmpelled Mrs. Fred
erick Story Forest, who had divorced
her first husband, H. B. Nichols of
New York, to carry out a most
thrilling kidnapping. To Mr.. Nichols
had been awarded the custody of
their daughter, Catherine, for nine of
the twelve months in the year. The
three months that Catherine was hers
had satisfied the mother up to that
time, but finally she felt that she must
have her for all the time, and set
about to get her.
The father, perhaps fearing this act
on the mothers part, had quietly re-
moved the little girl from his New
York home to Greenwich, Conn, and
Mrs. Forest could not find out where
| the hiding place was. But one day
Mr.. Nichols went to Greenwich to
bring the little girl to New York for
| medical treatment, and his former
wife followed him.
Hand in hand, the father and daugh-
| ter came to the railroad station at
| Greenwich, when Mrs Forest, who
had been lying in wait, sprang for
ward and tore the child from her
! fathers arms. She carried the girl
out of the station, pursued by the
father, and rushed up to a boy who
sat in a buggy, Mrs. Forest ordered
him out of his own carriage, climbed
in with the shrieking girl and dashed
away. mile away she entered a
livery Stable anu l1T9Q d team TO take
her over the state line AS she started
| off she turned to see herself pursued
| by an automobile in which sat Sheriff
| Reich. But the motorcar broke down,
| and Mrs. Forest got over the line into
| New York state without being appre-
hended- The telephone, however, was
faster than her horse, and in Port
| Chester she was arrested and taken
| before a justice, charged with kid
mapping. The judge, however, released
| her. and she left town on a trolley
car, with the girl still in her posses
| sion, just as Mr.. Nichols and his
| friends arrived in a motor car. New
York was reached, and Mrs. Forest
went to a hotel, where she was found
| despite her efforts to preserve an in
cognito, by her husband. Fearing this,
she disappeared, and for a while all
trace was lost Then she was found
at a summer resort, and matters were
afterward patched up legally.
Maternal Love Dared All.
The strength of parental love was
never more clearly shown than in the
case of Mr.. and Mrs Forest Clark and
their son Carlton, which has been in
the papers so many times in the past
Clark was divorced in New York, and
the custody of the little boy, then
three years old, was awarded to him.
The father had the boy adopted by a
DIR. and Mrs. Dreamer, and thought