The sun., 1898-02-15
uFRES EMBEzZLER FOSTER
nror EXCHANGE THIEF CONES
PHoD.VT P. TuJTE HAIRED AND WORM.

.,.a WIFE "Ny Niece Buiu
Nn 4, on the Other side-H was Ten
he .,o. Ncariy. THAT Ho Ran Away
s,.s,,ps Siss. 900 - Locked Up.
:, s-o very different William .R. Foster
" ,hc one that nearly ten years ago left this
Ho" after robbing the Gratuity FUND oil the
a,co eous exchange OF $4,000. who arrived
frV.S .IS French liner La Normandio yesterday
on sI IN charge Of detective. That Foster
morn'.s ,oors old. and looked ten years
"a. This Foster is 30 years old
Ioo.s ten years older than that
anu .,ne life OF fugitive from Justice
n'..s rsars. sayly, It is true, but always with
ie' ..,rtinv certainty OF final capture, and lO5
inc :, imnr,sonment In Frenchsprison, have
ua' IN. change. To-day Fosters face Is
@ m". .esmed. ani drawn. His hair is white
W., 80 fallen out In great patches. His eyes
snu ~ cot and the forehead .above them
,hows wry burrows
r.n.,n Police Headquarters. and after talk
III can, McClusky Of the Detective Bureau,
WIN 70 IN, District Attorneys Office. There
.as .n,et ~ e,oi Gardiner, who formerly know him.
ne ia y who shook hands with him; roster asked
~, M instead OF being committed 10 the Iombs
b sent back to bis counsel coudert
time 10 .o'' Th;s was done. Detective McCaf-
tn.ty acting for the.Produce Exchange, is the
na,eer tsss who Brought Foster back and delivered
him sd 10 ,ns TO see YOU. Capt McClusky said to
roster AT Headquarters. To which remark the
prisoner responded: .LI x,..,.a
a. see you sir under the circumstances. 1t Is
novel experience for me. however. TO ne treated
Ike gentleman by the anth9ritGfs sSr of ,hs 9e sreat
SGerent from that they get in France. You
may have noticed that my head is quite bald IN
snota When entered upon my period OF soil
tpprr Confinement in the Paris prison my hair
mas ss as thick as yours. 1t is Of little avail to
sneak OF my treatment there, but there are
ttes terrors worse than. coming back to ones co9n-
trv TO stand trial for an alleged crime, and
Trench prison is one OF them:
Foster was arrested in Neuilly, suburb OF
paris on Oc,. %. AS counsel TO the Gratuity
asd the loan reports and kept the money for his
nWn use. This process he might have contin-
ned Indefinitely had not the famous Bedell FOR
GENE SoiIrS over w its books With discovery and dis
STace certain he left the country. Shortly
after young woman who shared his house at
S.pOa . IL Gsd Bso aso sft the as
She Joined him In Europe: and as Mr.. and Mrs.
Ward they lived well in Paris, London, Zurich.
Geneva, and other places, ana became came quite @
KID the sirl in Europe. They have one child.
The The woman is still abroad Foster says.
While Foster was In Europe his father, a mil.
ionare -four merchant. died, leaving SUFFICIENT
money in trust for him to insure him good In
come The elder Foster returned to the Gra-
tuity Fund $50, 900 of what his son had stolen.
reward OF $1,000 was offered by the Produce
Exchange for the defaulter's arrest but though
be took little pains to conceal himself. the de-
tectives failed to find him, perhaps because Of
the very openness and ostentation of his mode
of existence He had several narrow escapes.
Finally Duncan r. Norvell, a clerk of the Gra-
fully Fund abroad on a vacation, located him,
and his arrest followed. Foster denies that he
due to French red tape. He was in prison for
more than three months over there. At tho
District Attorneys office Foster met Detective
Geneva, Switzerland, before Foster went there.
You're the McNaught used 20 hear about at
the brasserie there" remarked Foster. who
The detective was surprised to find that he
bad left a reputation behind him. Foster will
plead to the Indictment to-day.