Show HELD WITHOUT BAIL Forger Bedell Remanded to Prison STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS Another Party Charged With Like OffencesGeneral News From the Wires NEW YOBK September 27 The examination of James E Bedell defaulting de-faulting clerk of Shipman Barlow La roooque Choate was begun todcy There were three complaints against him the first by J E Sobermerhorn charging Bedell with forging a mortgage mort-gage for 17000 Register Stevin was present to testify to his signature on the mortgage forgery Another complaint was by Solomon Hanford of the law firm the prisoner defrauded i 1 Koopnidn who first discovered the forgery also makes a complaint I Accused was remanded until daiurday without ail I MORE STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS The following statement over the signature of Alexander E Orr president pres-ident of the Produco Exchange was posted on the floor of the exchange this afternoon To Members of the Gratuity Fund Gentlemen Yesterday afternoon it came to the knowledge of the trustees of the gratuity fund that Counsel William R Foster Jr was suspected of having committed similar frauds to those committed by Bedell in the office of Shipman Barlow Larocoque Ohoate Investigation proved this to be case The Register of New York has pronounced thirteen mortgages aggregating aggre-gating to 168000 as having fraudulent certificates of registration The investigation in-vestigation is still going on and members of the exchange will be advised of further development Last evening Pinkertons detective agency was employed to arrest William R Foster but as yet no report has been received from them Signed ALEXANDER E ORB This statement was not a complete surprise to the members of the exchange ex-change Foster who had offices in the buildiner and who had long been legal counsel for the exchange had not been seen about there since last Tuesday evening He went away then saying he would be back next morning He enjoyed the implicit confidence of his associates |