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Show detected them. Among tne nine men under arrest are David Jacobs, Jac-obs, a foreman in the employ of Daly & McBcan, snow removal contractors, and James Cleary, a foreman ot the street cleaning department. Frederick A. Hogel, deputy street cleaning commissioner com-missioner for the borough of the Bronx, and William F. Charlesworth. a foreman of the department, were suspended sus-pended by Commissioner Edwards and were subpoenaed to appear Derore a grand jury today. All the existing contracts for snow removal have been abrogated. Commissioner Edwards said that, af ler the discovery of the frauds, he sent an agent to Jacobs, the contractor s ioroman, and purchased $700 wortn of tickets at SO per cent or their value when redeemed by the city. He said Jacobs offered $10,000 worth of tickets tick-ets at the same price. JacobB when arrested Implicated the others and sur- rendered a check for $700 drawn (o ; his order by Deputy Hogel. Hogel said I he had been speculating in legitimate 1 pnow tickets, taking ten per cent from the drivers by redeeming their tlck-i tlck-i ctp more promptly than the city. NINE B CHARGED WITH GRAND THEY ARE EMPLOYES OF STREET CLEANING DEPARTMENT. Frauds, If UndiscoveTTO Would Have . Cost New York City $50,000. New York. Feb. 3. As the result ot an Inauguration of an Investigation by Wm. H. Edwards, who recently I was appointed street cleaning super-'t super-'t latendeut of New York, eight em-j'ployes em-j'ployes of that department and the j foroman of n contractor were arraign-' arraign-' ed In court today on charges of grand j larceny by the use of fraudulent tlck-I tlck-I ets. These tickets were issued to ! drivers of snow wagona and attest to j their removal of wagon loads of snow j from the tdretts. It Is estimated mat the frauds would have" cost the cUy fifty thousand dollars it tne etret-t cleaning ' commissioner had not |