Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-08-12
KIDNAPPED HER MOTHER
 FROM MICHIGAN SANITAR|UM
Mrs. J. B. York Abducted By Daughter, Mrs. Chas.
 Nelson, At Flint, Mich.
OUTWITTED POLICE
Mrs. Nelson Was Former Miss Grace York, of this City-Escaped in
 Automobile.

Mrs Charles Nelson, formerly Miss Grace York, a popular society girl of this city and member of one of the wealthiest and most prominent fami- lies of this state, figured as the star performer in a sensational kidnap- ping case at Flint, Michigan, several days ago when she abducted her mother Mrs. Elizabeth York, 65 years old, wife of Captain I. E. York, for years prominent lumberman of this city but who now makes his home in Memphis, from the Oak Grove Sanitar- ium at Flint Michigan, placed her in an automobile that she had taken there from Tennesseee and after out wittng the entire police department of Flint, Detroit and other Michigan cities, got her safely to her home in Louisville, Kentucky, where her par ent Is now being cared for.
 The sensational Imprisonment" of Mrs. York in the Flint institution will probably develop one of the most in teresting cases in the courts that has been told for some years, for 1t is understood that an effort will be made by Robert York, of Memphis. Tenn, brother of Mrs. Nelson and son of the aged woman to have his mOtherD declared insane and placed in an in- stitution.
 Writes of Her Plan.
 Private letters from Mrs. Nelson, who alone and unassisted except by her chaffeur planned the thrilling es- cape of Mrs. York from the Michigan sanitarium, say that she was placed there by her son to deprive her of ;er share of her husbands fortune and that on one occasion, when he visited her in the Michigan sanitarium-the first time in two years--he threatened his mother by telling her that if she took any legal action to secure her release, he would "place her where she would never get freedom again.
 Mrs. Nelson's letters also relate how she went to Flint, Michigan, to visit her mother; how she found her in per- feet health, possessed of all of her faculties and how she begged her to aid her and secure her release from the sanitarium, where she was being held "a prisoner" Mrs. Nelson re- cites how she visited with her mother in the institution and upon her arrival there found that the nurses had been doubled, two keeping guard at the door of her mothers ward and an- other remaining in the room while she talked to her. Her mother had been lept in the institution for four years. 1rs. Nelson denounces her brother n no light terms in letters to friends for his treatment of their mother and declares that she would have freed her mother at any cost
 Captain J. B. York, the husband of the alleged insane woman. is now making his home in Memphis with his son. Robert York. Mrs. Nelson says that he is under the complete influ- ence of his son and that all efforts to see him on her part have been unsuccessful.
 The Abduction.
 A special dispatch to the Detroit (Michigan) Free Press from Flint. Michigan. gives the following thrilling account of the successful and clever escape of Mrs. York in the hands of her daughter:
 Mrs. Elizabeth York. s5 years old, formerly of Memphis, Tenn. was kid mapped from Oak Grove Sanitarium here at 6:3O Thursday evening by her daughter, Mrs. Charles Nelson. of Louisville, Ky.
 Mrs. Nelson visited her mother m the women's ward Thursday afternoon and obtained permission to take the patient for walk in the Sanitarium grounds. A nurse was detailed to ac- company them. As they reached driveway, while the nurse was some distance in the rear Mira Nelson sud- denly seized her mothers arm ana rushed her toward an automobile that M had hacked into the driSewaySAa apper