The sun., 1898-01-23
FOSTERS LIFE ABROAD.
Social Achievements OF the ForEcr About 10 Be
brought Back 10 New York.


brought Back 90 New York.
William r. Foster, whose extradition was re-
Gently granted by the French Government
nearly ten years after the discovery OF the ex.
tensive defalcations Of which he is accused in
this city, is living exempliflcation of the un.
questioning amiability with which Americans,
provided they have money, are received In
Europe. With the woman who left this coun.
try with him. and Is not his wife, or was not at
least when she lived at Bayport. L. l., with him,
and was introduced as my niece Miss Lulu
Beloite.' he has lived for several years In Lon
don, Paris, and Zurich, entertaining and being
entertained.
His crime was the misappropriation Of $780,
600 Of tho gratuity fund of tho New York
Produce Exchange. obtained during the five
years from 1883 to 1sss by q series of bold and
sklful forReries. He was tho counsel for the
Exchange. and as such 1t was his duty to handle
applications for loans. His method was to pro-
duce an application for loan on certain prop
critics which tho trustees would have appraised,
and, il they were satisfactory, would accept.
Then Foster would produce q forged bond and
mortgage and obtain the money. These
papers would bear all the signs OF hay
ing passed through tho Registrars office.
Foster, having forged the seal. certificate and
the private office marks. He kept counterfeit
ma Was so sort o
thing might have gone on indefinitely but for
aSSh hs Se
Macfarland was robbed of thousands Of dollars.
This set all Of the large firms handling bonds
ned the country on Sept. aS. 1883. ~ MANU. anu
well known both as lawyer and socially. M s being M
member of the Union. University and other
nd N mail Sara ala fofl lo
from his father. tie late William W R. F Foster. % a
gsnsiye scale Shortly after his departure % Lulu
turned up in Europe with him. ~ They hey were we're
known as Mr.. and Mrs Ward. and gave it out
that they were Americans Of wealth and social
was offered by the Produce Exchange for e Eos.
in vain, Then the elder Foster paid $50. 900 to
the ExchSnge and altered his viii, creating q
cept the income from the S fund. III" n0 money eA'
Msants me- FSstsT and and the Beloie womsn as
with retinue Of servants and good stable,
and made overtures to the country people,
were they received with open arms, but but Mrs. Ms
Snndn Mafd became quite rS leader with the fox
they they entertsined as guests many people OF posi-
entertain visiting Americans. Once, when Eos.
York men. he hastily left England for
time. 1t may have been In conse-
LoadSn inyelved too great an outlay, that MIR.
in one Of the large hotels there. BY this time
the Detectives had got track Of Foster, and ex-
tradition papers were applied for. He got wind
Of .,,f the fact and disappeared; Later, However.
Consul. WHO did not know the identity of his
guest until MIR. Ward " had concluded his
stay. A man supposed to be Foster was ar.
rested din in switzerland but soon released Foster
suburb Of Paris, and were living there Iuxuri.
ously when Foster was arrested. They were
fast establishing social position there. and
the society Of the place was scandalized at "Mr.
Wards arrest on Oct %. Mrs. Ward was
not arrested.
When he left here Foster was about As
years old, but looked ten years younger. A
Ph9tograph Of him in the possession Of Edwin
Baldwin OF the firm of Baldwin & Blackmar,
counsel for the Produce Exchange shows him
as Z man apparently of 90, with a deeply lined
Paris shortly after Fosters arrest.